Bronx Masquerade

The book Bronx Masquerade is discussion by a mix of twenty some students and their lives in the Bronx. Each student talks about their life and then writes a poem about it. First, most of the students were nervous or scared to read their poems during "Open mike". However, by the end of the year everybody in Mr. Ward's class had read at least once. In additon, people would comment on their classmates poems. I think we should do this every Friday in our class. I really enjoyed this but wonder if perhaps Nikki Grimes had written all of those peoms herself ?