The Poet X Graphic Organizer 2
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- Xiomara, come home.-your Mother.
- Xiomara gets a text from her Mother that says she needs to come home. Xiomara's Mother tells her that she saw her notebook full of poems that she wrote. She gets upset about what she wrote and burns it. Xiomara takes a train to Aman's house. Xiomara tells Aman that she needs to leave his home after some time. When Xiomara goes to school, Ms.Galiano says she called her parents about her disappearance from the poetry club the other day. Ms.Galiano understands her feelings. Xiomara goes home. She and her Mother decide to work something out between themselves. Ms.Galiano will not let Xiomara out of the Poetry Club. Ms. Galiano tells Xiomara that words give people permission to be their fullest self. Xiomara practices her poem for the poetry slam. She performs and does a good job. She writes an assignment for English class and writes that she thinks a poem is a lantern that glows in the dark.
- Can I come over, Aman?
- Yes.
- I need to leave.
- Okay.
- It is okay. I called your parents about your disappearance from the poetry club.
- My name is Xiomara and I will recite a poem.
- We will work something out between ourselves, Xiomara.
- I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
- Words give people permission to be their fullest self. Do not drop out of the Poetry Club.
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