They may even feel so inspired to write a poem of their own, using “Nikki-Rosa” as a model.īelow are four resources for middle school through university students, using the poem “Nikki-Rosa”: Giovanni’s personal telling of her story will also encourage your students to connect her experience to theirs through poetry. Through Giovanni’s poem, your students will examine their assumptions about poverty, look twice at the areas in their life where they think or are told they’re lacking, and find areas of wealth they perhaps hadn’t seen before. Our collection of “Nikki-Rosa” resources offers your students a deeper and more personal understanding of poverty, and how they might perceive people they don’t know or who are different from them. Poet Nikki Giovanni raises this point in “Nikki-Rosa.” She describes her experience of growing up in an impoverished, black household and highlights that people -often white people -tend to misinterpret and make assumptions about what poverty meant to her.Įxamine your own assumptions about poverty A young girl and her family may not have much money, but they may be rich in community and love for one another.
In conversations of about poverty, the emphasis is often placed on what people lack, and ignores the possibility of wealth in other ways.
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