Lower School News
Video Highlights: Fourth Graders Host Poetry Slam
Mitzi Mock, digital storyteller & videographer
From Ancient Greece to the Harlem Renaissance, fourth graders have been studying the history of oral traditions and spoken-word poetry. In the course of their research, they learned about the Pentathlon of the Muses, a former Olympic tradition where artists competed for medals. In this spirit, students hosted a poetry slam in February (just in time for the Winter Olympics). Their challenge: write and perform a poem that makes the ordinary extraordinary.