This student work is the result of an assignment in the 2nd grade classrooms of the Henry Barnard School. Students were asked to complete a time capsule with their families from March-May during the stay-at-home order. This student's project includes…
Our project talks about the small businesses of Providence and what they have gone through in order to succeed. We interviewed three businesses and we got very different answers from each individual.
“Onomatopoeia Psalm”—poem
“Calendar Conundrum”—poem
“Buddhist Blasphemy”—essay
“Confucius Confusion”—essay on a changing perception of Confucius in two versions of a poem by my father Alonzo Gibbs.
“Merging”—poem
“Art Will Save Us”—essay on the…
“Invictus Update”—poem.
A romanticized account of Geoffrey Gibbs’s ancestors, especially the Native American Silcock and the ministers Henry Gibbs I, II, and III.
Thoughts on death as perceived by the ancients.
“Epicedium”—poem.
“The Book of Life”—poem about Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti.
Essay: “Women Obliterated from History.”