Author name: Katreena Tolentino

Reflection I was inspired to do this podcast because it reminded me of my nephew, Carlitos. He was a new, important person in my life. He and his brother, Toñito, always played around with me. One time, my little nephew, Toñito, was crying, but when I started to carry him, he stopped crying. It was […]

Reflection This poem shows how special my friend, Eduardo, means to me. If I can describe him with one word it will be: loyal. Prompt Create a poem about your friend and show him/her. Click This Link to Read More of My Poems

Reflection This poem captures how I was feeling exhausted, numb, and especially tired. Lately, I’ve been acting like a zombie–having no energy to keep up in class. So, when we were writing our poems, I decided to write about how I’ve been feeling by sharing the effects that caused my sleepiness. Prompt This week you

Reflection This poem was inspired by one of my favorite shows, called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. In this poem, where I write from Emporio’s perspective, I tried to capture how I think he would feel finally coming to conclusions with himself about Jolyne’s passing. As you can see, it’s kind of a bittersweet moment with everything

Reflection Growing up, the child of an immigrant, meant I had to be twice as perfect as anyone else. Many of us had to learn two different languages to communicate with our families and get a good education. I spent most of my childhood being too stubborn to truly see what my parents sacrificed for

Reflection When writing this poem, I wanted to write something that I experienced, which is loneliness. Ever since my dog died, I have felt lonelier than usual. Prompt Now, I want you to write a poem about when you felt lonely and if you remember what caused it. Click This Link to Read Another Poem

Reflection This poem, I expressed my feelings and thoughts. Every topic I wrote is very important to me because, without it, you can’t describe me. If you notice, all of my poems are acrostic because, while learning how to create one, I knew it was my style. In fact, those were my first acrostic poems

Reflection My reflection will be from my first poem. This poem shows how I have struggled with friendship and trust. I had a friend. I thought she was my BFFE (Best Friends For Eternity), but, this year, it broke me that she started avoiding me. As my poem says, “Why did you stop seeing me

Dear Lola (after Victoria B.) I can still taste the simplicity of sweet suman and hot chocolate, balut with a sprinkle of salt, steamed broccoli dipped in soy sauce, fresh fruits and frozen grapes   I can still see all the little trinkets: your colorful ESPER nametag– next to “Footprints in the Sand,” the photo

Promotion What words of wisdom or last minute lesson can I give?  To the class who has taught me as much as I hoped to have taught them: Let’s take a moment to recap what we learned The first step of learning is to memorize So: memorize Memorize your math facts, root words, and so forth