Leading nineteenth-cen - tury poet Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus, is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty and has served as a call for generations of immigrants

Response - Another heroine! I had not heard of Emma Lazarus nor knew the story behind the poem associated with the Statue of Libery (give me your tired, your poor, etc.)

Curricular connection - read aloud; unit on American history, rights and responsibilities

Good introduction to the poet. ( )