Newspapers In Education
Poems by 6th grade students at PIMS (III)
Scrub Forests
by Charlotte Carrier
Grade 6 PIMS
I am big and dry at the scrub forests
I see Spanish people
I hear music from festivals
I wonder about the Day of the Dead
I love my capital, Mexico City
I am big and dry at the scrub forests
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My Own Country
by Kassie Rouse
Grade 6 PIMS
I am my own country
I see plateaus and mountains
I hear the waves of the ocean
I feel the sand on my feet
I speak Spanish and native Indian language
I am my own country
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Valley of Mexico
by Hannah M.
Grade 6 PIMS
I am the Valley of Mexico
I see the capital, Mexico City
I worry about the volcanoes erupting
I hear people around me
I feel earthquakes as they happen
I am the Valley of Mexico
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Mexico
by Joseph Bolstridge
Grade 6 PIMS
I am dry land and hot climate
I hear the Spanish language and oceans
I feel Aztec feet on my surface
I see Mayan temples and sacrifices
I hope my surface will cool
I am dry land and hot climate
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Deserts, Rainforests and Mountains
by Sophia Lambert
Grade 6 PIMS
I am deserts, rainforests,
and mountains
I see haciendas stretch so far
I love my gorgeous
Pacific Ocean border
I wander around the missions
of my church
I watch the waves from
the Gulf of Mexico roll in
I am deserts, rainforests,
and mountains
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Mexico
by Abigail Michaud
Grade 6 PIMS
I am hearing people talking
I dream to be
an Aztec warrior
I taste the salty seawater
I worry about the bad drugs
I see the ancient structures
I am hearing people talking
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Water in the Gulf
by Joshua Raymond
Grade 6 PIMS
I am the beautiful water in the Gulf
I see ruins of all the tribes that were once here
I smell the delicious sweets people eat on the Day of the Dead
I hear music and the sounds of people dancing and celebrating their heritage
I want only peace
I am the beautiful water in the Gulf
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Mexico
by Thomas Stitham
Grade 6 PIMS
I am 20 degrees north of the equator
I have a capital city called Mexico City
I see the Gulf of Mexico to the east
I wonder what it would be like up north
I touch the United States and Central America
I am 20 degrees north of the equator
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Haciendas
by Taylor Fancy
Grade 6 PIMS
I am busy haciendas
I see the Sierra Madre
I try to do slash and burn
agriculture
I hear Mestizos
I understand our beliefs
I am busy haciendas
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