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| The Cut Outs, Matisse |
Monday, April 1, 2019
National Poetry Month: Whoa, Dude!
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| Would be a 'whoa, dude!' experience |
That's awesome! Not exactly what Wordsworth said, but almost. This is a very famous poem with lots of mixed metaphors, but still great for this time of year with all the tulips and daffodils popping up.
The serendipity (happy surprise) expressed in this poem is like the opposite of PTSD--the memory of the experience brings refreshing joy and satisfying peace, as experiences in nature often do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
The theme of feeling a part of nature and having joy in reflecting back on a beautiful experience is worth reading this poem with kids. Plus, they will meet 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud' many times in English literature class. I do like the daffodils dancing spritely. Personification does it for me every time.
in Just
by e e cumming
http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/in_just.html
Springtime is an excellent time for teaching poetry because it seems poets get very inspired during this season. e. e. cummings even made up new words for spring--mudluscious (You can hear your galoshes go schluppp as you try to extract them out of the newly melted snow/mud. Like hot fudge being pulled out of a sundae. That's mudluscious.) And everyone knows what puddlewonderful is; none of us resist splashing in a puddle. Of course, we in SoCal can't fully appreciate the ecstacy that the folks Back East experience having a puddle to splash after everything freezes for half the year--but we sort of empathize.
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| That's not eddieandbill or bettyandisbel. Maybe its bettyandeddie or isbelandbill; or bettyandbill or isbelandeddie. |
Kids also love music. So it is no surprise that Spring from Vivaldi would really tickle them with the marvelous sounds of a spring day--that they can identify on their walk to and from school. The music even sounds like flowers burst-blooming in the sun.
Spring by Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA
Performed by the Budapest Strings.
National Poetry Month: Poems # 4 and #5
Harlem
By Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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Langston Hughes biographyhttp://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313 |
Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Educational Links 4/1/19
VIDEO: “PROFESSOR JOHN HATTIE ON ABILITY GROUPING”
Add-ons, Jeopardy, and Carmen San Diego - The Month in Review
The Anti-Bullying Classroom: Advice for Educators
Teachable Moments: Connecting With Students In — and Out — of the Classroom
Teaching Students to Read Metacognitively
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students
Intrinsic Motivation is Key to Student Achievement – But Schools Can Crush It
One of the key components of engagement is students’
excitement about what they learn. Yet most schools
extinguish that excitement.
It all comes down to motivation. In many schools,
students do their work because their teachers tell them
to. Or because they need to do it to get a certain grade.
For students like Destiny, getting a good grade and
outshining their peers – not learning itself – becomes
the goal of school. For other students, they need
minimum grades to be on sports teams or participate
in extracurricular activities or please their parents,
and that becomes their motivation. Students who do
their work because they’re genuinely interested in
learning the material are few and far between.
Vincent's Super Bloom
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| Flower Garden Vincent Van Gogh |
If flowers could sing...
Delibes Lakme - The Flower Duet
National Poetry Month: Poem #3
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| Photo by Shane, Wargave, England
Wanderer moon
- William Carlos Williamssmiling a faintly ironical smile at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning,– a detached sleepily indifferent smile, a wanderer’s smile,– if I should buy a shirt your color and put on a necktie sky-blue where would they carry me? |
You Are Acceptable in the Beloved
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| матрёшка Russian nesting dolls |
Ephesians 1:6
King James Version (KJV)
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
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