Saturday, April 26, 2014

MzTeachuh: Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14

MzTeachuh: Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14:   If this really happens... Quick lessons to go. Fun activities and time fillers for teachers, students, homeschoolers...

Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14

 
If this really happens...
Quick lessons to go.
Fun activities and time fillers for teachers, students, homeschoolers and parents.http://www.pedagonet.com/quickies/quickies.html
 
These links may help you develop plans for current events.

CNN Student News

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ 

Student Daily News

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/ 

These links will give depth to your lesson plans: 

Inequities in Student Discipline: What To Do About Them

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/inequities-student-discipline-what-to-do-anne-obrien

Are You Tech-Ready for the Common Core?

http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/10/17/01readiness.h06.html 

By Not Challenging Gifted Kids, What Do We Risk Losing?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/what-do-we-risk-losing-by-not-challenging-gifted-kids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29  

These links make you move---everyone.
Teacher needs to move, too.
 

Students Learn That Active Bodies Lead to Active Minds

http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-physical-activity 

Classroom Exercises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9sZwCua83Q 

Brain breaks and classroom exercise

http://www.pinterest.com/mmeescargot/brain-breaks-and-classroom-exercise/

The Importance of Play in Preparing for Standardized Testing

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/play-with-standardized-test-prep-matt-levinson

These links will help keep you organized (and sane.)

Tips for Organizing Your Testing Efficiently and Getting the Best From Your Students

http://www.heidisongs.com/blog/2013/05/tips-for-organizing-your-testing.html 

Classroom Organization Resources

https://www.teachervision.com/classroom-management/resource/5803.html  

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/12/teaching-is-having-sense-of-humor.html


 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14: A Day in the Life of a Special Education Teacher http://teaching.monster.com/careers/articles/8011-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-special-educa...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14

A Day in the Life of a Special Education Teacher

http://teaching.monster.com/careers/articles/8011-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-special-education-teacher 

A day in the life of a Special Education teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1meBo_m1w 

Creating a Master Schedule that Supports Inclusive Practices

http://education.wm.edu/centers/ttac/resources/articles/inclusion/creatingmasterschedule/index.php 

More Evidence of Impaired Immune Response in Some Children with Autism

http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/more-evidence-impaired-immune-response-some-children-autism?utm_source=email&utm_medium=text-link&utm_campaign=sciencedigest 

Map Of The Developing Human Brain Shows Where Problems Begin 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/04/map-of-developing-human-brain-shows.html 

MTV Puts Spotlight on Transition

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/04/25/mtv-spotlight-transition/19310/ 

Common-Assessment Groups Differ on Accommodations

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/04/23/29cc-accommodations.h33.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EducationWeekSpecialEducation+%28Education+Week%3A+Special+Education%29 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education Grades 6-12 / STEM / Representation  https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/stem-gen...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13

Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education


Grades 6-12 / STEM / Representation 

3 Practical Tips For Using Open Resources In Your Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/open-resources-in-your-classroom/ 

5 Golden Rules for  Kids' Online Safety

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/04/the-5-golden-rules-for-kids-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+educatorstechnology%2FpDkK+%28Educational+Technology+and+Mobile+Learning%29

5 Bad Technology Habits Teachers Can Fall Into

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/5-bad-technology-habits-teachers-can-fall/ 

United States Videos For Geography Class

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/04/25/united-states-videos-for-geography-class/ 

This Is What We Share On Tablets

http://www.edudemic.com/tablet-sharing/  

You can Google Like a Boss 

 http://www.mypaperlessclassroom.com/2014/04/you-can-google-like-boss.html

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21: The Old Guitarist, Pablo Picasso La Guitarra, The Guitar Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Se ...

National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21



The Old Guitarist, Pablo Picasso

La Guitarra, The Guitar



Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca

Empieza el llanto
de la guitarra.
Se rompen las copas
de la madrugada.
Empieza el llanto
de la guitarra.
Es inĂştil callarla.
Es imposible
callarla.
Llora monĂłtona
como llora el agua,
como llora el viento
sobre la nevada.
Es imposible
callarla.
Llora por cosas
lejanas.
Arena del Sur caliente
que pide camelias blancas.
Llora flecha sin blanco,
la tarde sin mañana,
y el primer pájaro muerto

sobre la rama.
¡Oh, guitarra!
CorazĂłn malherido
por cinco espadas. 
The Guitar
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh,guitar!                                                                           
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.


 
  Maybe the old guitarist was playing this:
AlbĂ©niz, Asturias (Leyenda), guitar solo, James Edwards (animation)  

 

Concert for Bangladesh, George Harrison
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y 


 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
George Harrison
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

MzTeachuh: Chillaxin' With My Mommy

MzTeachuh: Chillaxin' With My Mommy: Mother and Child   Leighton, Lord Frederick What Saturdays are for.  Mother's Day, May 11.

Chillaxin' With My Mommy

Mother and Child   Leighton, Lord Frederick
What Saturdays are for.
 Mother's Day, May 14.

Friday, April 25, 2014

MzTeachuh: Who Doted on You?

MzTeachuh: Who Doted on You?: Detail from "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Leonardo da Vinci Mom and Grandma? Mother's Day May 11.

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poem #19

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poem #19: Pieter Brueghel, Kermesse (1567-8)  The Dance William Carlos Williams In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess, the ...

National Poetry Month: Poem #19


Pieter Brueghel, Kermesse (1567-8)

 The Dance

William Carlos Williams

In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)
their hips and their bellies off balance
to turn them. Kicking and rolling
about the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those
shanks must be sound to bear up under such
rollicking measures, prance as they dance
in Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess.

Who Doted on You?

Detail from "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Leonardo da Vinci

Mom and Grandma?
Mother's Day May 10.

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14: Health & Safety Topics http://www.cdc.gov/   37 Common Characteristics of Dyslexia   http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.h...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

Health & Safety Topics

http://www.cdc.gov/ 

37 Common Characteristics of Dyslexia

 http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm

Types of Learning Disabilities and Learning Disorders and their Signs

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/learning_disabilities.htm 

Writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
For Success

 http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/iep.success.bateman.htm

Modeling the Parent-Teacher Strategies of Special Education

http://www.nea.org/home/16265.htm 

What is the Special Education Resource Room? 

http://specialed.about.com/od/idea/a/resourceroom.htm 

Taming Your Special Education Paperwork: 5 Tips from a Pro

http://speducated.com/organize-paperwork/ 

 

 

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/ Engineering is Elementary http://www.eie.org/   Choosing the Right Devices for Your Schools ...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
Engineering is Elementary
http://www.eie.org/ 

Choosing the Right Devices for Your Schools

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/03/04/choosing-right-mobile-devices-schools/ 

  
How Teachers Are Learning: Professional Development Remix

https://www.edsurge.com/ 

Four Steps for Jumpstarting Global-Collaboration Projects

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/04/15/ctq-curran-global-collaboration.html 

Online Learning: The Pros And Cons Of K-12 Computer Courses 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/online-learning-pros-and-cons_n_848362.html?utm_hp_ref=education-technology 

10 Technologies Of The Future That Might Actually Happen
 http://www.edudemic.com/technologies-of-the-future/

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14: Who Took You By The Hand?  http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-took-you-by-hand.html?spref=bl   Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoug...

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14

Who Took You By The Hand? 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-took-you-by-hand.html?spref=bl 

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts for the Garden (These May Bug You) 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/cheesy-jokes-and-serious-thoughts-for.html 

National Poetry Month: Poem #17 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/national-poetry-month-poem-17.html?spref=bl

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/special-needs-tweets-of-day-42414.html 

Who Told You Stories and Sang You Songs?

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-told-you-stories-and-sang-you-songs.html

Teachable Moment: A Party Game for William's Birthday

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/teachable-moment-party-game-for.html 

Check Out Edudemic

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/check-out-edudemic.html 

Who's Praying for You?

 http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/whos-praying-for-you.html?spref=bl

Music for the Soundtrack of Your Classroom: Test Prep Time 

 http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/music-for-soundtrack-of-your-classroom.html

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/ed-tech-and-stem-tweets-of-day-42414.html

So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/so-how-are-we-doing-tweets-of-day-42414.html 

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Gardening for Climate Change  http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Gardening/Archives/2014/Gardening-for-Climate-C...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Gardening for Climate Change 

http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Gardening/Archives/2014/Gardening-for-Climate-Change.aspx 

Love Video Games? Then It’s Time To Love Math

http://www.edudemic.com/love-video-games-time-love-math/ 

Modifying the Flipped Classroom: The "In-Class" Version
 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-in-class-version-jennifer-gonzalez

The Best Education Technology Resources

 http://www.edudemic.com/best-education-technology/

What Types of E-Books Are Best for Young Readers?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/what-types-of-e-books-are-best-for-young-readers/ 

How to Grab and Keep Girls’ Interest in Computer Coding

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/how-to-grab-and-keep-girls-interest-in-computer-coding/

Using RTI to Improve Learning in Mathematics

http://www.rtinetwork.org/learn/what/rtiandmath 

 

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Special Tools for Special Needs: PalmPilots Help Kids Cope http://www.edutopia.org/special-tools-for-special-needs-palm-pilots-help-kid...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Special Tools for Special Needs: PalmPilots Help Kids Cope

http://www.edutopia.org/special-tools-for-special-needs-palm-pilots-help-kids-cope 

The 200 Best Special Education Apps

http://www.edudemic.com/special-ed-apps/ 

Understanding Inclusion

http://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/inclusion/whats-inclusion-theory-and-practice/ 

Positive Self-Talking to Help Children Cope with Angry Thoughts and Feelings 

 http://thepsychoeducationalteacher.blogspot.com/2014/04/positive-self-talking-to-help-children.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePsycho-educationalTeacher+%28The+Psycho-Educational+Teacher%29

How to Help Kids With Tricky Math Homework 

http://ncld.org/students-disabilities/homework-study-skills/help-kids-tricky-math-homework 

Supporting Student Resilience in the Classroom

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/supporting-student-resilience-in-classroom-steve-gardiner?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-supporting-student-resilience-in-cclasroom-link

New chairs help calm wiggles of students at SLC autism school, officials say

http://fox13now.com/2014/01/13/new-chairs-help-calm-wiggles-of-students-at-slc-autistim-school-officials-say/ 

 

 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Understanding Assessment: Resources for Parents http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-testing-parent-resources   Common Core in Action...

So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Understanding Assessment: Resources for Parents

http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-testing-parent-resources 

Common Core in Action: Using the Arts to Spark Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-and-creative-learning-courtney-boddie 

Child Development 101: 8 Key Things to Know About How Kids Learn

 http://ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/what-is-ld/child-development-key-things-how-kids-learn

The Teacher’s Guide To Badges In Education

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/the-teachers-guide-to-badges-in-education/ 

No Courses, No Classrooms, No Grades — Just Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/no-courses-no-classrooms-no-grades-just-learning/ 

7 Survival Skills For Modern Teachers And Students

http://www.edudemic.com/7-survival-skills-modern-teachers-students/ 

Making It Stick

http://chronicle.com/article/Making-It-Stick/146143?cid=megamenu 

 

 

 

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anythin...

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anythin...: ...but poems seem to be about love or death. Or both. This Tennyson poem comforted Victoria when Albert passed. In Memoriam Canto ...

National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anything...

...but poems seem to be about love or death. Or both.

This Tennyson poem comforted Victoria when Albert passed.




In Memoriam Canto 27
Tennyson
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Holy Sonnets X
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. .
- See more at: http://www.allspirit.co.uk/dying.html#dearest


72. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,         5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,  10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
 
John Donne
 The Chimney Sweeper

Holy Sonnets X
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. .
- See more at: http://www.allspirit.co.uk/dying.html#dearestThe Chimney Sweeper
 William Blake
 
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said,
"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."

And so he was quiet; and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, -
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.

And by came an angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins and set them all free;
Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind;
And the angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father, and never want joy.

And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark,
And got with our bags and our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377#sthash.CwfQZi06.dpuf
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377#sthash.CwfQZi06.dpuf

Shakespeare, MacBeth

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last sylable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death
Out out brief candle
Life’s but a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing

The Cross of Snow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face--the face of one long dead--
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Here in this room she died, and soul more white
Never through martyrdom of fire was led
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legend of a life more benedight.
There is a mountain in the distant West
That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she died.

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

By Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.


Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.


Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,   
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)

By Emily Dickinson

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -

The Stillness in the Room

Was like the Stillness in the Air -

Between the Heaves of Storm -


The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -

And Breaths were gathering firm

For that last Onset - when the King

Be witnessed - in the Room -


I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away

What portion of me be

Assignable - and then it was

There interposed a Fly -


With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -

Between the light - and me -

And then the Windows failed - and then

I could not see to see -

MzTeachuh: Who Was Your First Playmate?

MzTeachuh: Who Was Your First Playmate?: Child with Toys, Renoir Your Mom. And she had fun, too. Mother's Day May 11.

Who Was Your First Playmate?


Child with Toys, Renoir
Your Mom. And she had fun, too.

Mother's Day May 10.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: A Party Game for William's Birth...

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: A Party Game for William's Birth...: Need A G-Rated Insult?  http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/06/need-g-rated-insult.html?spref=bl   I find Shakespeare animal me...

Teachable Moment: A Party Game for William's Birthday



Need A G-Rated Insult? 

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/06/need-g-rated-insult.html?spref=bl 

I find Shakespeare animal memes hilarious. I just can't help it. So here's the game--I'll give you a hint which plays these come from-- you guess. To be sure, you can always google the quote.

Which of these first four are from Richard III, Hamlet, Two Gentleman of Verona or a sonnet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of the next three, which are from Richard II, Romeo and Juliet?

Of the three memes above, which are from Romeo and Juliet or Richard III?



Of these four memes below, which are from MacBeth, Midsummer Night's Dream,  and Romeo and Juliet?

This last group:

Two from MacBeth, one from Midsummer's Night's Dream.

 

 

 

 

 

 My own meme--from a play we study in grade ten in the USA.

Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with some of his best insults and pickup lines

http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/04/23/celebrate-shakespeares-birthday-with-some-of-his-best-insults-and-pickup-lines/

11 ways to celebrate William Shakespeare's 450th birthday

 http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-04-23/11-ways-to-celebrate-william-shakespeares-450th-birthday

Welcome to the official Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebrations website.

 http://www.shakespearesbirthday.org.uk/