HOLLAND A group of middle school students is looking to use poetry to share what they’ve learned about the refugee crisis with the community.
A class of English Language Arts students in the Hope College Program for the Academically Talented at Hope (PATH) has been studying the global refugee crisis through various texts, including the novel “Refugee” by Alan Gratz.
The unit was guided by three essential questions:
“What causes cruelty between people of different nations?”
“How does empathy contribute to human understanding?”
“What is an effective response to social injustice?”
To culminate the learning experience, students wrote poems reflecting on the experience, which will be shared in upcoming editions of The Sentinel.