This is a focus question on to kill a mockingbird. starr had two best friends growing up. natasha was murdered by gang violence, and khalil was murdered by a police officer. let’s talk about thomas’s purpose for doing this. let’s also talk about what it must be like to be growing up in a community where you are being squeezed from both sides like the people in this community are being squeezed.

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so