Social Action #2

For my Social action response #2, I did a two voice poem with Sadie (in class), but I also did one on my own.

The one I did with Sadie

CAPS = Together

·         = Sadie

                

v  =  Michelle

Judgment:

I WAS BULLIED

·     I was called short and little

v  I was called Chinese

I WAS JUDGED

·     People treated me like I’m a baby

v  People think I always get good grades

I TRIED TO CHANGE MY APPEREANCE

·     I put on make-up to look older

v  I put classes on to seem “normal”

WE LIVE IN A JUDGEMENTAL SOCIETY

The one I did on my own

CAPS = Together

·         = Parent

                

v  = Child

Cheating:

CHEATING IS

·    Wrong, bad and unfair

v  A way to make my grades go up

ITS TOUGH

·     Keeping you on the right path

v  Always getting good grades

I AM UNDER PRESSURE

·     To lead you the right way

v  To meet your expectations

ITS TOUGH

·     Seeing you stay up so late at night

v  Having so much to do and having no time to study

For the one I wrote with Sadie we went through the list that Ms.Galang gave us then thought deeply into each then like the racism one and then we ended up with judgment. This 2 voice poem related to each of us. We used how people treated us into the poem like how people say Sadie is short and people think I’m Chinese when they first meet me. We ended our poem with a line we said together because we think that would end our poem strongly.

The one I wrote on my own I used cheating as a main topic because now a days like the SAT cheating scandal I think kids feel so much pressure from school and out of school activities that sometimes we don’t have time to study so when we get the test the next day we don’t want to fail so we turn to cheating, even though we know it’s wrong. And our parents don’t help with it because they’re the ones who are giving us that pressure.