tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67473858222309365482024-02-21T01:37:08.851-08:00America SCORES SeattleAmerica SCORES Seattle provides elementary school students from under-served communities with a five-day-a-week after school program combining soccer, literacy, and service learning. With teamwork as the unifying value, America SCORES Seattle inspires youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students and become agents of change in their communities.Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16373222648130596297noreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-57367173144201332992016-05-31T13:45:00.001-07:002016-05-31T13:45:20.246-07:00America SCORES Seattle has a new Program Director!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800027272727273; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPVqAFvjzJ4/V033vnQjWAI/AAAAAAAAAAg/e4JXNbdvO5YnJZ1cEAnpGY5BxceLgIDhQCLcB/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPVqAFvjzJ4/V033vnQjWAI/AAAAAAAAAAg/e4JXNbdvO5YnJZ1cEAnpGY5BxceLgIDhQCLcB/s320/photo.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCORES is like my long-lost twin: I love working with kids, I love soccer, and I’m an avid writer and community activist. I worked for Seattle Public Schools for years -including most SCORES schools. I love learning about different people, cultures, and languages. I love writing and used to write for “Real Change”. Not only do I still play soccer, but I’m a referee and serve on the board of Seattle Recreational Adult Team Soccer League (RATS for short).Wor</span><img alt="Displaying photo.JPG" aria-hidden="true" class="aLF-aPX-J1-J3 aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR" src="blob:https%3A//mail.google.com/43162dea-e805-4e55-a898-2957c1e6fef4" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">king for SCORES is like co</span><img alt="Displaying photo.JPG" aria-hidden="true" class="aLF-aPX-J1-J3 aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR" src="blob:https%3A//mail.google.com/43162dea-e805-4e55-a898-2957c1e6fef4" style="line-height: 1.38;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">mbining all my favorite things into one!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some Q&A with our new team member!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was your favorite sport to play growing up?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was a kid, I was not very big, strong, or skilled, but I liked chasing a ball so for soccer was the sport for me! Now as a grown-up, I’m still not big, strong, or skilled, but I still play soccer every week. In fact, I barely know anything about any other sport, so if you want me to feel awkward, ask me about what I call “one of those weird ball things”. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is your favorite athlete?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favorite athletes are those who realize that there’s more to life than a sport, and show real concern for issues close to their hearts and do something about it. Didier Drogba comes to mind, because he negotiated a truce to the civil war in his home country of Cote d’Ivoire ahead of the 2006 World Cup. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is your favorite writer, singer or poet?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My all-time favorite book is “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” my Peter Matthiessen. I also really like Sherman Alexie, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, e.e. cummings, Tom Waits, Dr. Seuss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favorite singers (who are really poets, right?) are Erykah Badu and Tom Waits. And my favorite poets include e.e.cummings and Dr. Seuss.</span></div>
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ,grasshopper;</span></div>
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Well...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When tweetle beetles fight, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it's called a tweetle beetle battle.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when they battle in a puddle, </span><span style="background-color: white; 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color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; 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font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AND...</span><span style="background-color: white; 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color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bottle paddle battle.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aside from soccer, writing, and empowering kids to become future leaders, I like to garden. My favorite things to grow are spinach, raspberries and garlic. Otherwise I’m a theoretical vegetarian and adventure eater who likes to try new foods from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On April 9th, Asli boarded her first plane at SeaTac Airport bound for the other coast. She was on her way to a big adventure and show in New York City! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So let's share some of moments across the city starting here, on the top of the Empire State Building!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And of course there was a lot of time spent preparing for the National Poetry Slam!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And at the reception all the Poet-Athletes were treated like superstars, taking photos, giving autographs and enjoying the celebration of SCORES and each of them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After such a fun (and exhausting weekend) Asli was ready to return home, but not before she took one more trip to see something she was most excited about: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We caught up with Asli at soccer practice last week! We'll be sharing her interview soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you can watch the entire 10th Annual National Poetry Slam: <a href="https://youtu.be/nmogAeMcWhA" target="_blank">here!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meet Asli, the 5th grader from Maple Elementary who will be representing Seattle at the America SCORES National Poetry Slam! The National Slam will be held in New York City on April 11th, 2016. Which means Asli is getting on a plane and heading east in just a short time! We'd like to share a bit about this Poet-Athlete who is about to have an exciting adventure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Asli comes from a large family, she has 4 sisters and 3 brothers. As one of eight, a lot of her time spent out of school is with her siblings and helping her mother. She's been in SCORES two years and her favorite thing is spending time with her teachers/coaches and teammates!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For her trip to NYC she is most excited about getting on a plane and performing on stage! She's still a bit nervous about performing and meeting new people but we're sure she'll do wonderfully!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She really likes her school, it is different from other schools, because they don't have walls (it's an open concept school), or uniforms and she has <b>a lot</b> of friends! Her favorite subject recently switched from math to social studies, right now they are learning about the Boston Massacre and the American Revolution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>"My family is crazy and weird but we get along" </b>-we can <i>all</i> relate to that Asli! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She likes all kinds of music and food but when we spoke she said that one of her favorite artists right now is Becky G, and the food she would want is pizza. We talked about the giant slices of famous NY pizza she should try while she's there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Speaking of which YOU can help make sure she gets to try that giant pizza and has other fun opportunities during her trip as well by contributing to <a href="https://seattlescores.ejoinme.org/NYCforASLI" target="_blank">NYCforAsli</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And of course, we'd love to share Asli's poem with you: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>"Life" </b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Life is a
place</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">With all
kinds of faces who all have different races</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Life is a
prize, but how come everybody dies?</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Without life
where would we go?</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Where would
we be?</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Would we be
under the sea?</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Life is where
the successful kids turn into smart nerds at least that’s what I heard</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Life is a
place where people come and go</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">You might
think life is fast, but no</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Life is where
we are now</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Right this
moment we are in LIFE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">This isn't the last we'll hear from Asli as we prep for this great journey east! Stay tuned for more updates on Asli and the America SCORES National Poetry Slam 2016! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During the Winter Season, SCORES looks a little different, a little more...little :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our JR SCORES Programs are over half-way through their season. This programming is aimed at students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade who would like to find out what soccer and writing poetry is all about. For many this is their first time playing on a team or writing a poem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">JR SCORES is also unique in the curriculum used for these first forays into writing. Our JRs are still young 5-8 years old and so we try to engage them in writing through stories. Last year they met a monkey named Zoomba, and learned about sharing, team work and creative problem solving while using poems to help introduce themselves to their new friend or to share what it means to be nice. This year they are apprentices of the great Poetry Wakanda (or <i>one who posses magic power</i>), Onida the Owl. She comes from a long line of wakandas who make the lives of their fellow owls more interesting, more colorful and more heart-felt through poetry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently however, the other owls have been losing their interest in poetry in favor of this strange box with pictures and talking that doesn't make them use their imaginations. It is up to our JR SCORES Wakanda apprentices to help Onida write poems so wonderful and full of magic that the owls turn away from the TV and back to the poetry they used to love so much! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our apprentices are also learning how to dribble, pass and play together in their school gyms! Check out our pictures below, poet-athletes working on poems about "big feelings" in their heart charts and super powers! </span><br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16373222648130596297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-53018320322186152732016-01-25T17:42:00.000-08:002016-01-25T17:42:20.150-08:00National Slam Finalist Poems<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These 19 poems are by 19 talented, thoughtful SCORES Poet-Athletes. They wrote these and many other original works during Fall Season and each took the stage to share their poem on November 11th at our Annual Poetry Slam! Almost 140 students took the stage that night, and this month 19 were considered Seattle Finalists for the America SCORES National Poetry Slam! They shared their inspiration for their poems, what they love about SCORES and gave us their best work we couldn't be more proud! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Who”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who is more delicate than glass?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Can be crystal clear or all fogged up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Comes in a variety of different colors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All in one package</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who hates if it’s not the first one of its kind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because if it’s not it’s easier to shatter than the
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who you may ask? I know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They kind of just vanished, and when they did I promised to
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So who, will forever remain a mystery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here’s one more hint, they hate change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Kya 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Big Bad Bully”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why? Why do people bully?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can probably answer that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Either they got bullied in past and take all their anger
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But either way it’s still a major problem - am I right? Or
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here’s a little advice ignore him or her and they won’t
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">See you later alligator, stay nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Nativia 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Have you ever thought about your future? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think one day I’ll be a director, I’ll be making the
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or maybe one day, I’ll be fashion designer, I’ll be
creating hats and shoes to dress that fit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or maybe one day I’ll be a pilot, I’ll be flying from
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well I don’t really care ‘cause I’m only ten </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I got lots more time to spend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So whatever I choose I hope it’s good for me and you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Jaliya 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is fun and I wish I could be in SCORES every year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We make a goal like a pro, I let you down but I help you up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a boss on the field, take the ball and make a pass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We make you proud, we make it loud</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But don’t pout ‘cause we’re taking you out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You’re the gold, you can be just like a soccer ball rolling
down the field</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be the goalie, be the defender, it doesn’t matter just be
whatever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We have good sportsmanship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let people know you’re in SCORES and be a great leader</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Liz 4<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thinking about why isn’t my dad here with me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why should I even call him dad when he’s never there for
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To help with bills and supplies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I could be poor one day and he might not even be there with
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thinking about if he even loves me anymore</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whenever I hear the words “dad” and “separate” I remember
what happened to my family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He is my problem</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He made me laugh but now things change</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remembering the great times we had like Christmas, or when
we went to Wild Waves for the <i>first</i>
time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes he comes for me on Sundays </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But when he doesn’t something gives me a feeling he doesn’t
even care anymore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He never keeps his promises, every single day I feel like
crying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He was never there for special occasions like birthdays,
soccer games, and performances </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He never know but he might not even be there on my
graduation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He’s never there to kiss me goodnight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just can’t stand it anymore, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All those excuses he makes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Ana 4th Grade</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Friends”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Friends are there for you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Right by your side when you really need them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In your life they’ll always be there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Encourage each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Never lets you down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Doing good efforts to help your friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Saving your friend when they’re being bullied</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Nathan 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Parents” </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parents give you love by taking care of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parents help you up when you fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parents take care of you when you need it the most</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parents cheer you up when you’re sad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love my parents and they love me too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Musa M. 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Halloween”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Halloween is a time when all the ghosts rhyme</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the haunted house, there is a mouse</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There is a witch, who likes to twitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On a very dark night, we hide of fright </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is so dark, I hear dogs bark</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I see a scary tree, and get stung by a bee</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I went to trick-or-treat, and I told them to smell my feet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ramiro 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Sometimes”</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes I sit under a tree and grieve </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My mind unstable like the leaves of a weeping willow </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But my body is firm on the ground, like the trunk of an evergreen
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes I’m green not blue, maybe calm like a palm</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just sit and stare off in the blanket of the trees</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Acorns falling in my thoughts, making them a blur</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes I weep and the trees don’t sleep</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Plop </i>goes an acorn
from one of the angry trees, blurring my thoughts again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The wind’s screaming in my ears, like me when I’m mad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like when wind hits a tree and it falls</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes my life’s like tangled roots</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some moments good and others just plain bad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But together it makes life what it is </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes I sit under a tree and grieve </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Silently slipping away from the world</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All cares vanishing like an alive tree being cut down</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sometimes I’m just like a tree</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Sabrina 4<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Feelings” </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have feelings because I’m a person</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have feelings because I’m a girl</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have feelings because I’m amazing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have feelings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Ty’Yonna 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“I Am” </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am not a liar, I am not afraid, I am not alone</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am nothing but myself </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I’m not a truck, I’m not a car</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am nothing but myself </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am a believer and achiever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But nothing but myself </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Amina 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“My Life”</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My life can be hard it can be both</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It might be lucky it might be not </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s just how life goes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Luqman 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“6 in the Morning”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s six in the morning I’m rising up to a new day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hoping it’s going to be a good day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I look and see at seven a black man gets shot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It’s eight now, time to go to sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Back to six I hope the same thing doesn’t happen today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Never lose hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We shall overcome this too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Omari 5<sup>th</sup> Grade </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“The Most Precious Thing on Earth”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder if it’s life or death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder if it’s me and family together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder if it’s me having family forever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The most precious thing ever is the world all together
forever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my voice
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my hands
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my heart
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my words
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With my eyes,
voice, hands, heart, and words I can do many things so can you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is my home because my team is like family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is my home warm and cuddly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is my home because it is fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is my home because of the fun and nice teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SCORES is my home because it is peaceful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am glad SCORES is not a terrifying and ugly home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After all, SCORES is my beautiful home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wish we could all live in a world with no racism and no
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<a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/overview">85% of SCORES students</a> receive free or reduced lunch at school. Through generous support from our sponsors, we’re able to provide our services to schools, many of whom would otherwise be sending kids to an empty home while their parents are at work.</div>
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<b><u>2. SCORES gives kids a safe place to play.</u></b></div>
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Violent juvenile crimes occur most frequently in the hours <a href="http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2014/11/03/after-school-programs-can-help-teens-at-risk-of-dropping-out">immediately following the end of school</a> on school days, according to <a href="http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/offenders/qa03301.asp">federal data</a>. By giving kids a place to go after school, SCORES provides a safe and supportive environment. </div>
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<b><u>3. SCORES improves academic performance.</u></b></div>
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Nationally, <a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/annual-reports">75% of participants</a> improved their grammar and writing mechanics after participating in the program while affiliates like Chicago and Seattle show classroom participation and critical thinking<a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/annual-reports">increased after participation</a>. Beyond academic improvement, after-school programs can be an important tool in <a href="http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2014/11/03/after-school-programs-can-help-teens-at-risk-of-dropping-out">preventing at-risk teens from dropping out</a>.</div>
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Nationally, <a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/annual-reports">85% of participants</a> increased their cardiovascular capacity with affiliates like DC and Bay Area reporting that kids had <a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/annual-reports">improved self confidence and a lower BMI</a> by the end of the program year. It’s especially important that SCORES operates in cities, with children in urban areas <a href="http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-54NeighborhoodExercise.pdf">less likely to exercise</a> than the national average.</div>
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<b><u>5. SCORES strengthens communities.</u></b> </div>
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Through the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSUkQt5-xU">service learning component</a> of the program, kids learn about empathy and social responsibility in their communities. With a greater need for places to play, communities work to redevelop areas that have been left dormant, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-brown/more-than-fun-and-games-p_b_5997688.html">even in times of strife</a>.</div>
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<b><u>6. SCORES is good for jobs.</u></b></div>
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A recent report by the Afterschool Alliance found that <a href="http://afterschoolalliance.org/documents/AA3PM-2014/AA3PM_Key_Findings.pdf">83% of parents with children in after-school programs</a> agreed that after-school programs helped working parents keep their jobs. In addition, SCORES employs over 650 teachers as coaches in our after-school programs.</div>
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Encouraging kids to express themselves through poetry and spoken word can improve <a href="http://www.americascores.org/about-us/annual-reports">a child’s self-confidence</a> and unlock feelings and thoughts the child <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/poetry-lesson-plan-I-am-from-elena-aguilar">may not be able to communicate otherwise</a>. Furthermore, studies have also shown that exercise can substantially <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/how-exercise-can-boost-the-childs-brain/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=health&_r=1">improve a child’s ability to think</a>.</div>
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SCORES programs are filled with countless stories of people who participated in the program as kids coming back to coach or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7YpZDe9jc&list=UUNUQxAB_LRA7OyH9GtDs7LA">intern</a> or volunteers coming back to <a href="http://www.americascores.org/affiliates/bay-area/about-us/meet-our-staff">work full-time</a>! SCORES has become a model of sustainability with alumni coming back to help the next generation of poet-athletes eager to join the family.</div>
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Poet-athletes come from all walks of life. By participating in a structured after-school program, it gives them the stability to grow more confident and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYINnXz8km4&list=UUNUQxAB_LRA7OyH9GtDs7LA">achieve successes that would not have been possible otherwise</a>. Similarly, our staff is constantly learning more leadership techniques <a href="http://www.americascores.org/our-week-at-the-amex-leadership-academy">to help them improve their teaching methods</a> and improve the program.</div>
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SCORES currently has a lengthy waiting list of schools and cities who would like the SCORES curriculum to be implemented into their after-school programming. The problem is not unique to us, with<a href="http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/imgs/AA3PM/AA3-social_graphic_demand.png">two children waiting to get into an after-school program</a> for every one that’s already in. Your support would help us expand SCORES and make this amazing program available in every public school!</div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16373222648130596297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-41345169239980810192015-10-21T15:08:00.003-07:002015-10-21T17:11:16.254-07:00T-Shirts to Empower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Studies have shown that when serving low-income or vulnerable populations there are a few things an organization can do to connect on a deeper level. One of them is to give youth something specific to them, something that's "theirs". As an after school program there are three things we hope to do for the youth we serve to make them feel supported- offer safety, consistency and something of their own. SCORES is something they can count on, a place where they can take safe risks, and make friends. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">This year we are making a push to provide them with something tangible, that ties them to the city-wide SCORES community. Something small but so meaningful- A T-SHIRT! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">It is rare that we have the ability to provide items unique to SCORES. Though we have had many great partners who have helped us garner equipment, uniforms for students to borrow, and occasional funding to offset transportation and organizational costs, our Poet-Athletes don't get the chance to own a part of their SCORES experience. </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16373222648130596297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-87065293665735705982015-10-15T15:19:00.003-07:002015-10-15T15:19:40.111-07:00Poems for Game Day Friday! <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In anticipation of Game Day Friday tomorrow we'd like to share some of this week's soccer poems from the girls at Maple Elementary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems clear to us that soccer and SCORES are AWESOME! We are so excited to have our first Fall Game Day Friday tomorrow, and so are our Poet-Athletes! </span></div>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16373222648130596297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-63928759584231481262015-08-20T12:03:00.000-07:002015-08-24T11:57:17.065-07:00All aboard The Magic SCORES Bus! <h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Game days! These are special days when our Poet-Athletes are bused to other schools to play each other. They have the chance to make new friends and engage with the Seattle community on a larger scale. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Our annual poetry SLAM is another event during which we rely heavily on busing. During this event, Poet-Athletes have the opportunity to take the stage at Town Hall and share their work with friends, family and the community!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Not only does busing allow our Poet-Athletes to do amazing things, it also allows their families to become involved! Because many of our families have limited or no access to a vehicle, we encourage siblings and parents to join us on for the ride to game days and other important events. This way they are able to witness special moments like a child's first goal or time on stage! </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">For many people that means a whole lot of fun is coming up, but for at-risk youth in Seattle, summer can often be a very challenging time. </span></h3>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">We need your help to ensure that our #PoetAthletes are well fed, avoid the summer slide and above all, have tons of fun! </span></h3>
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<b><i>The "Summer Slide" can potentially affect all youth, but low-income youth are at particular risk for losing valuable knowledge they have gained throughout the school year. </i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Help our #PoetAthletes enjoy a reading-filled, safe and healthy summer by <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://seattlescores.ejoinme.org/campSCORES"><span style="color: red;">DONATING</span></a> </span>today! </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>I saw a lot of places and I met a lot of new friends</b>," Mohamed on his Big Apple experience.</span><br />
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Favorite thing about New York: <b>New York Pizza!</b><br />
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Biggest Challenge:<b> Flying. Mohamed was afraid the plane might crash. His first and only other time flying was when he was a baby and he did not remember. They experienced a rough landing, but everything turned out well!</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>I feel like I gained a lot of confidence and I feel like I can actually talk to people without being nervous</b>," Cindy on her Big Apple experience.</span><br />
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Favorite thing about New York: <b>Sightseeing! She told us this was her number one priority when traveling and she was thrilled that they were able to go to N.Y.U., The High Line, Grand Central Station, The New York City Public Library, Times Square, and Rockefeller Center! </b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">If you missed the 2015 National Poetry SLAM! you can still view it online by clicking <a href="http://americascores.org/Watch">HERE</a>! </span></b><br />
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I am a very creative girl, <o:p></o:p></div>
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my mind is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere<o:p></o:p></div>
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my ideas are sci-fi with a little help of wi-fi<o:p></o:p></div>
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award winning ideas, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll have Oscars on my wall, <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://seattlescores.ejoinme.org/?tabid=676376">DONATE HERE</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">SO...here is exactly what our #PoetAthletes have been up to! </span></h2>
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Last month we told you about our exciting new JR SCORES curriculum...now, we could not be more thrilled to say that students and coaches have loved it alike! This story was highly effective at teaching our students literacy and life-skills, both indoors and out! With all the excitement that you can imagine along the way, we are excited to hear from one of our favorite Maple Elementary coaches that Zumba the monkey, has almost escaped the zoo and the Golden Boot, lost early in the season, is sure to soon be found! Thanks to all of our coaches who continue to #EngageAndEmpower our youngest #PoetAthletes! </div>
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Maybe you've heard the buzz, but just in case, Seattle is excited to send two amazing #PoetAthletes to NYC next month! Since our finalists, Cindy and Mohamed were selected, we have done everything that we can to make sure that their trip will be one to remember! When these two awesome poet's mentioned that maybe they wanted to bring home a t-shirt and take a tour of N.Y.U., we wanted to make sure that could happen for them! We know how hard they have worked and believe strongly that they deserve the best experience possible! We are happy to say that we are well on our way and you can still donate <a href="https://seattlescores.ejoinme.org/?tabid=676376">HERE</a> today! </div>
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Beginning this year, America SCORES Seattle launched an entirely new curriculum and we are thrilled to share the ways which our #PoetAthletes have been using "The Legend of the Golden Boot", an interactive workbook illustrated by Maybelline Chow.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747385822230936548.post-77322745993847148932015-01-30T13:21:00.001-08:002015-01-30T13:21:39.924-08:00Introducing our new CAA: Andrew Bloom!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hi! My name is Andrew Bloom and I'm excited to be serving America SCORES Seattle this year as an Americorps volunteer through Coach Across America. I recently received my degree in Exercise Science and Health from the University of Idaho, where I also competed in D1 Track and Field. I'm excited to be working with the youth in this community and helping them develop their soccer and life skills.</div>
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I began working with youth back in college where I became very involved with my teams youth camp that we ran every year. From there I moved on to coaching track and soccer during the summer time.</div>
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My favorite sport to play growing up was probably soccer. But the sport I have been apart of the longest is track and field. I was always that kid on the playground who was looking for a race. </div>
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I would have to say Russell Wilson, because he is an exceptional leader on and off the field. He sets a great example for others by never giving up. And... because Go Hawks!!</div>
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I think my favorite poem would have to be "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I'm not the biggest poetry buff, but this poem has always seemed to stick with me. Im excited to learn more about poetry this year and see the great work the kids in this program come up with. </div>
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I'm thrilled to be apart of this great program and can't wait to see these kids progress through out the season. I have already had the pleasure of working with the Jr. SCORES the past two weeks at Maple and Dunlap Elementary Schools, and look forward to getting to know them better over the next six weeks.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Last week we shared some exciting news! America SCORES Seattle is off to </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">New York City and representing our state are two wonderful #PoetAthletes! Congratulations </span>Khadija <span style="font-weight: normal;">and </span>Mohamed<span style="font-weight: normal;">!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, picking these two, from even a handful of finalists from various schools, was not easy...and we wanted to show you why! </span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Check back to see our special highlight of Kadijah's and Mohamed's poetry and preparation for the National Poetry Slam in NYC!</span></h3>
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This week, we would like to take the time to congratulate and showcase all of our amazing state finalists who worked so hard to get where they are!</h3>
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day love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can’t change anything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see this girl in my dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And the woman
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always remember to have faith and live every second of your life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What’s
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just a little girl with big dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">People
say I’m too young to help others<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">No
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’ll
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Because
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>“Umbrella”
</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You
shield me from the rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Bouncing
off the wetness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You
are armor in disguise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Sabrina H.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Bailey Gatzert, 3rd Grade)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>“Me”
</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
looking at my reflection in the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYwbay7RI6oVfqN9TV2cF6j8Hgwgf7-9OSWmiQ3WfLrLlWzN14s7lb-1lJefjz8eMD-ZzA7IoSp5E6DAlSzIhU35jpyIixIUPyY0XB1UeHX8_TVVU8qybJoLT_q_osFHjK5H_o7j8WGg/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(44%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYwbay7RI6oVfqN9TV2cF6j8Hgwgf7-9OSWmiQ3WfLrLlWzN14s7lb-1lJefjz8eMD-ZzA7IoSp5E6DAlSzIhU35jpyIixIUPyY0XB1UeHX8_TVVU8qybJoLT_q_osFHjK5H_o7j8WGg/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(44%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It
seems to be looking back at me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
can only see me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lonely
as I can be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Being
the only one that believes in me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeing
the future that’s ahead of me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dreaming
the dreams that only I can see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Black
hair, dark brown eyes, smart kid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yeah,
that’s me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
my future<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s
still a mystery <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Andrew L.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Bailey Gatzert, 5th Grade)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">“Friendship”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
friend is like a flower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
rose to be exact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoZpUEyI8j0xOivkECN5PpuUcCRXAH1fHEubPABjL6Z1DAqCw8eIiues0nxXYTBIjD9Jxz5flYD1Fo3S3AGqGm70CWzPsDSDGjPauDpNXIV2j-AdchLM51BPANBplf_14LCQ3b35zb7U/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(245%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoZpUEyI8j0xOivkECN5PpuUcCRXAH1fHEubPABjL6Z1DAqCw8eIiues0nxXYTBIjD9Jxz5flYD1Fo3S3AGqGm70CWzPsDSDGjPauDpNXIV2j-AdchLM51BPANBplf_14LCQ3b35zb7U/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(245%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Or
maybe like a brand new gate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
never comes unlatched<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
friend is like an owl <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Both
beautiful and wise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
friend is like a ghost <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whose
spirit never dies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
friend is like a heart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
goes strong until the end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Where
would we be in this world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">If
we didn't have a friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Friendship
is like a treasure <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Full
of riches and gold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Friendship
is a memory <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
can never grow old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
awoke with a happy heart <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
thanks-giving for my friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Kaycee C. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Maple Elementary, Fifth Grade)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">“I
Remember”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjig6-QAlGwtLXa6iJfvxU2ULkaRY2Q8gbBvsgcvtmm3sw2x6Muv1O2EYwqlUIsYMMhWvo_Mp0yt7MQXhST-jTFDRi0exW0gW36FoZbFxQkPprQ-F-ko9p0T79TwrFM8jTVYOREMb1Oszk/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(218%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjig6-QAlGwtLXa6iJfvxU2ULkaRY2Q8gbBvsgcvtmm3sw2x6Muv1O2EYwqlUIsYMMhWvo_Mp0yt7MQXhST-jTFDRi0exW0gW36FoZbFxQkPprQ-F-ko9p0T79TwrFM8jTVYOREMb1Oszk/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(218%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
remember Darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
remember the banging of my chest <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
the pumping of my blood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
remember my arms tightening <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
the drops of sweat rolling down my face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
remember silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
could taste fear coming for me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> I remember seeing black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
the monsters in my head come rolling in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
remember being afraid of feeling fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Trey P.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(Maple Elementary, Fifth Grade)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>"Somali Girl"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I
am a Somali girl</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
this is how I see the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
see people that are different from each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They
don’t speak the same language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
live in pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
some live in anguish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Because
they can’t feed their kids or can’t pay their rent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By
the time they get their pay check<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Their
moneys already spent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
get bullied <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
get murdered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLD0E2n-78rfwL6KNRD_PguZmEjWC-vzMVCZ8_9F4YPbs_mVfs4oLMaiwX0TcsmMGlTJgS56RZEz-WmY0Krb-6_UelKm5kF2tTmu2ofK1NuxR97eOVRkOIOeCJPDnpEVf14WTKIn-xg4/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(177%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirLD0E2n-78rfwL6KNRD_PguZmEjWC-vzMVCZ8_9F4YPbs_mVfs4oLMaiwX0TcsmMGlTJgS56RZEz-WmY0Krb-6_UelKm5kF2tTmu2ofK1NuxR97eOVRkOIOeCJPDnpEVf14WTKIn-xg4/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(177%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
get led around like sheep to a herder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">People
rob other people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Young
kids killing or shooting other kids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">People
are acting like animals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
killing other people <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Before
their interested in using their words <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PEOPLE,
PEOPLE, PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Have
some respect<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What
do I have to do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Get
on my knees?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Don’t
make me do that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Help
Somalia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
see what you get out of that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You
can help Somalia even though you’re not Somalian<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Once
you get to meet them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They’re
pretty funny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
way they talk is amazing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Every
time I meet someone who just came from Somalia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
ask them to teach me own language perfectly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Somalia is beautiful country <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
hope you go to Somalia and see what we people are like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Because
I know we Somali people are fun, loving, sweet and supportive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Nafisa W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Dunlap Elementary, 5th Grade)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>“Friends
of All Sorts” </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It
doesn’t cost a penny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
it’s worth more than gold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9QWHqljc-MULOyL1tjrLu2Gx_77dJ9jmh0F4_el_0SobSYJgbnRm2n_B5v4zRX5tHSOBYYqRYIN2qhpFzL76CF20N5460N3IMMJ0JMXateoSehQeLTYkPW4OIRrla9BfLyBg96FmZXE/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(158%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9QWHqljc-MULOyL1tjrLu2Gx_77dJ9jmh0F4_el_0SobSYJgbnRm2n_B5v4zRX5tHSOBYYqRYIN2qhpFzL76CF20N5460N3IMMJ0JMXateoSehQeLTYkPW4OIRrla9BfLyBg96FmZXE/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(158%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Like
water in the desert sand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
it’s in the palm of your hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some
are like a hallucination <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
come to pollute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Others
are like a fresh breath of air <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
will be there anytime, anywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
some get you so mad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You
pull out your hair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
you know what? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
don’t even care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
don’t even care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Cause
that’s my friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
don’t have to be locked in a tiny box <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
don’t have to raise my hand to talk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
can say what I what I want to say</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And do what I want to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That’s
what friends come down to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Kya L. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Dunlap Elementary, 4th Grade)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSrTXl0AMs2cB0HHTEEaZstzM6qZjcbIiAyD_MYo6q5AvFsjUULTVGgl4VJjs8VLAN9pHZkKAW5ZFiTQJRWo7inpm5bUUcmnAVStaNKyglv9YPs-wG7RvEDmKri4dFAe54myAv___epc/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(130%2Bof%2B273)-XL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSrTXl0AMs2cB0HHTEEaZstzM6qZjcbIiAyD_MYo6q5AvFsjUULTVGgl4VJjs8VLAN9pHZkKAW5ZFiTQJRWo7inpm5bUUcmnAVStaNKyglv9YPs-wG7RvEDmKri4dFAe54myAv___epc/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(130%2Bof%2B273)-XL.jpg" height="320" width="184" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">“Dream”
</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
a girl who knows she’s all about that bass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Can
she be shy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
she can still knows how work it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dreams
bigger than New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
soon to be a woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Um,
sweet, sour, but I’m not going to lie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
little bit crazy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
might be a dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But,
girl, I’m living it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">- Sucdi H. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Dunlap Elementary, 5th Grade)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">“Me”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KsVuwiqj_n6oLpVDqTxsnKIViU6YNOWpnzdm5PhppYruliK2c6d28Co7tm1SjyZ4endS0Y8Wx6O1UjlCG_GOu0Dl0tYZhFAWz_M9nfv4brJ_8tOE63aNdFYoxd69uD6uMWSrNx51gkk/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(103%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KsVuwiqj_n6oLpVDqTxsnKIViU6YNOWpnzdm5PhppYruliK2c6d28Co7tm1SjyZ4endS0Y8Wx6O1UjlCG_GOu0Dl0tYZhFAWz_M9nfv4brJ_8tOE63aNdFYoxd69uD6uMWSrNx51gkk/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(103%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="320" width="186" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
the strongest kid of them all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">People
say I don’t cry at all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Well,
I might cry, if I get lost in the mall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Too
much things in my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That’s
why I get brain-farts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
wait! I’m smart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
I always get A-pluses in art<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’ve
got the skills <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To
help pay my electric bills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’ve
got the knowledge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That
will take me to college<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If
you don’t believe me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ask
my future me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">-Gimarco L.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Dunlap Elementary, 5th Grade)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #45818e;"><b>"Imperfect"</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Imperfect
is labeled on me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Making
so many mistakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Being
so clumsy with plates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGTknrXOZIUk1V4MpfwZ-FewddTi4N2YFifaEj4XHSaCceCMj4bwxvH16uruAPdaIE_eRKa4aWye7z-zKJpMBqq5ILyQOWZQROTuHGA-5NOGT3cXeiDPvtw1HZzRDfostiF_z7ceNc4/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(147%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGTknrXOZIUk1V4MpfwZ-FewddTi4N2YFifaEj4XHSaCceCMj4bwxvH16uruAPdaIE_eRKa4aWye7z-zKJpMBqq5ILyQOWZQROTuHGA-5NOGT3cXeiDPvtw1HZzRDfostiF_z7ceNc4/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(147%2Bof%2B273)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My
hair goes crazy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My
nails are so long…I can be wolverine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
can’t sing, nor can I dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
I still do it anyways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
not shy or confident<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
shy-fident AND awkward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
read like a turtle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But
slow and steady always wins the race<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
can’t cook<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My
jokes are so corny, you’ll kill me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’m
such a goofball that I laugh at the stupidest things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
get tongue twisted on my own words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
say pretty weird stuff all the time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And
that comes from this head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Where
all of my imagination and my creativity come from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It
runs buck-wild in my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">YIPPEE-KAY-YEAH! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Cindy N.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(Dunlap Elementary, 5th Grade)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>“Scared”</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, I said it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m scared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s hard to stay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFoU-MplVID2JYQ0ZcOGqxc-EhPMolsi58VfQmtX6SqTLf2_lQS-WxTYUSzZz6ch2w8cDGsvi4aWhAijGteQqO7mI4IFEMBbgXT1dY_sGcQabQcL6y28tNoR_r2V-MHcoEvrbtvRN9Bg/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(390%2Bof%2B141)-M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFoU-MplVID2JYQ0ZcOGqxc-EhPMolsi58VfQmtX6SqTLf2_lQS-WxTYUSzZz6ch2w8cDGsvi4aWhAijGteQqO7mI4IFEMBbgXT1dY_sGcQabQcL6y28tNoR_r2V-MHcoEvrbtvRN9Bg/s1600/2014+SCORES+Fall+Poetry+Slam+(390%2Bof%2B141)-M.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I did it today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I regret it every
minute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘til this may<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pray this feeling will
go away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But it didn’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes, I said it a
million times now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m scared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m not scared to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I still did it
today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I’m proud to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m not scared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now I can go on my way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A big light won’t give
me a scare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So don’t jump in my
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My name is Carina and I am the newest member of the America SCORES Seattle team and could not be more thrilled! With a background in anthropology, I have enjoyed working with the youth in Seattle Public Schools for almost a decade, and now, look forward to taking that work one step further with America SCORES! I love reading, good food, friends, and time spent outdoors! I could not be more excited for everything that is going on here at SCORES and look forward to all we will accomplish in the new year! </div>
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around the country has the opportunity to send two students, one boy and one
girl, to the Big Apple! Once here, these students compete in a national level
poetry slam and we know, that’s a lot of pressure! After spending hours preparing, our students had the opportunity to audition on video for our judges. What we all learned? There are a lot of awesome Poet-Athletes in Seattle and even for our judges, this was an incredibly challenging decision to make. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having the continued personal and financial support of a great community!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mild weather in the Fall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community Partnerships</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Town Hall Seattle was filled with inspiring poetry from Champion Slam Poet Nikkita Oliver and 137 America SCORES Seattle Poet-Athletes! Roger Levesque was a fantastic host and we had wonderful guest judges including Lamar Neagle of the Seattle Sounders!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This summer was our first ever SCORES Summer Camp! A huge thank you to all our personal supporters, Maple Elementary, United Way of King County, School's Out Washington, Page Ahead, and the Seattle Sounders FC for making it possible! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A big part of the SCORES program is goal setting and group agreements. We had camp-wide goals of support, positivity, perseverance, respect, and being yourself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We worked on Rhyming Couplets, Color Poems, I Am poetry, Alliteration, Rhyme Schemes, Simile & Metaphor, Acrostics about Reading/Books, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Concrete Poems, Haikus, and Free Verse Poems!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self Expression is at the root of what we do. We wrote "I Am" poems, had two visiting artists/poets who took us through workshops on identity. Our poet-athletes painted self portraits and took some time to explore photography, setting up their own photographic portraits as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were amazing, here's a glimpse: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We played soccer for 90 minutes in the afternoon, building our skills, our sense of teamwork and just had some fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each week we had Friday scrimmages and on the final Friday we had a pizza party and fun scrimmages: Kids vs. Coaches and Girls vs. Boys</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Seattle gave us a beautiful, sunny summer to enjoy!</span></div>
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