Poetry Mentor Texts: When Thunder Comes by J. Patrick Lewis
WHEN THUNDER COMES: POEMS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
Illustrated by Jim Burke, R. Gregory Christie, Tonya Engel, John Parra, and Meilo So
Chronicle Books, 2013
J. Patrick Lewis has captured fifteen international civil rights leaders’ struggles in this poetry collection. This would be an amazing book to study when looking at Civil Rights Leaders in a history/social studies class, but it would also be a mentor text for word choice. Lewis has distilled so much information and emotion into short poems.
Writing Skills:
* Word Choice
* Vivid Verbs
* Imagery
* Sensory Words
* History told in poetry
