National Poetry Month Poem #26

Subterranean Homesick Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A. Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't tie no bows
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Oh, get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Hang bail, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters

Oh, get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance
Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

Bob Dylan: folk singer, songwriter, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize for Literature

Educational Links 4/26/19

More funding for full-day kindergarten questioned as many low-income California schools already offer it

https://edsource.org/2019/more-funding-for-full-day-kindergarten-questioned-as-many-low-income-california-schools-already-offer-it/611580?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=more-funding-for-full-day-kindergarten-questioned-4-25-19&fbclid=IwAR3Xrk4l83D5cMwq5l40TXAD5Vaar4qvnhPsvdpBU0DFVszg4v9NnwOcgNs

Autism, Unlocked

http://www.eparent.com/features-3/autism-unlocked/?fbclid=IwAR2NBgApdM8UR3q4jypBhFgLeIwtfHIOtEzceKidMVJgtxLoMM0DdxK5aI4

A reminder for teachers: you are changing lives

https://www.tes.com/news/teachers-you-are-changing-lives?fbclid=IwAR1GKLev7YKpiwB3IJ8bZbeiO9vauq9EWjIKXNYTdAqJSqpe4v3f-CzV-64

Technology Has No Impact on Teaching and Learning

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2019/04/technology_has_no_impact_on_teaching_and_learning.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB&fbclid=IwAR1MvtMLgfeTXW_9s9Fwf32JQcJpspGiBdw8YBkq9OZ4qNev_2RblRuMfrE

Involving emotions in the secondary classroom: why and how?

https://www.oxfordtefl.com/blog/involving-emotions-in-the-secondary-classroom-why-and-how?fbclid=IwAR386-V254hKE3K0OMHHk6OlQFpsBqXEPVvtSvcifeFHt2lLIBn4WngQUXM

TEACHING THE GIFTED: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/edutalk/2019/04/25/teaching-the-gifted-the-psychology-of-talent-development

Districts in Debt

https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/districtsindebt/?fbclid=IwAR2sRafp3Ic0Dw7eutXhQy6r2IkNpW_CML6cbLb9kjeAmxsvDXzXK6cEWoY

America’s school districts owe more than $400 billion in debt, a number that has grown rapidly in the last decade. The system is rife with inequities and the hidden financial pressures districts face can end up having a big impact on classrooms and kids.

National Poetry Month: e e cummings

e e cummings was also an artist. this is a self-portrait.

[anyone lived in a pretty how town] 

BY E. E. CUMMINGS

anyone lived in a pretty how town

(with up so floating many bells down)

spring summer autumn winter

he sang his didn’t he danced his did.

Women and men(both little and small)

cared for anyone not at all

they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same

sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few

and down they forgot as up they grew

autumn winter spring summer)

that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf

she laughed his joy she cried his grief

bird by snow and stir by still

anyone’s any was all to her

someones married their everyones

laughed their cryings and did their dance

(sleep wake hope and then)they

said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon

(and only the snow can begin to explain

how children are apt to forget to remember

with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess

(and noone stooped to kiss his face)

busy folk buried them side by side

little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep

and more by more they dream their sleep

noone and anyone earth by april

wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)

summer autumn winter spring

reaped their sowing and went their came

sun moon stars rain


e e cummings
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-e-cummings

National Poetry Month: Poem #11

Buffalo Bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill

[Buffalo Bill 's]

By E. E. Cummings

Buffalo Bill 's

defunct

                     who used to

                     ride a watersmooth-silver

                                                            stallion

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

                                                                                                                        Jesus

he was a handsome man

                                                            and what i want to know is

how do you like your blueeyed boy

Mister Death 

E. E. Cummings

 e e cummings

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156 

Educational Links 4/25/19

In search of truce in the autism wars

https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/search-truce-autism-wars/?fbclid=IwAR3bjot5MIM9znYwQIigYgP_NRIjIG6A6mqE5fkNswxRJM7X9ih66bSrN3Yhttps://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/search-truce-autism-wars/?fbclid=IwAR3bjot5MIM9znYwQIigYgP_NRIjIG6A6mqE5fkNswxRJM7X9ih66bSrN3Y

38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy

https://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/44-prompts-merging-reflective-thinking-blooms-taxonomy/?fbclid=IwAR3ccffDn2wv5p6iDiJKiUQxalKX2y5gHelx2GdFKdoZnjPs9nv3aFL31Qw

At a Glance: 5 Ways Social Challenges Can Play Out at Recess

https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/child-social-situations/school-events-and-situations/at-a-glance-5-ways-social-challenges-can-play-out-at-recess?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR3wQQpTGlWr40PSbiQYGgErxE0fJt8n2o-MUh4EfTD2dZazByN9_OA1PDM

What It’s Like to Teach at One of America’s Least Racially Integrated Schools

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/angela-crawford-black-philadelphia/586099/?fbclid=IwAR1oJlM5wywxcvGJB394cec3n3U_aPeGEpZruo8zo1ZxIo_r_9O6VtlT-cE

The Research on Early Childhood Math

https://www.edutopia.org/article/research-early-childhood-math?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR0WVVpRaU_vU4ov0deYxpLyVWj8oiQKgX3uQKFqpZh5kae0wHUB3ur0Mi0

I And You And Us: 30 Inspiring Messages For Students

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/inspiring-messages-for-students/?fbclid=IwAR1XyfddsQadMezu4yxpz-PP3quYRkwdjzVgldUxNekxdJCTQP5Nd_-6Ucc

Every Student Can Be a Poet

https://www.edutopia.org/article/every-student-can-be-poet

Five easy-to-implement strategies to make poetry writing accessible and fun for all students.

National Poetry Month: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins

God's Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

The Best Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems Everyone Should Read

https://interestingliterature.com/2015/10/12/the-best-gerard-manley-hopkins-poems-everyone-should-read/

Top ten things you may not have known about G.M. Hopkins

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/top-ten-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-gm-hopkins

National Poetry Month: Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson Apparently, poetry-lovers cannot decide which are the best ten poems of Emily's. You can read them all and make up your own mind. The 10 Best Emily Dickinson Poems https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/67591-the-10-best-emily-dickinson-poems.html Ten Most Famous Poems by Emily Dickinson https://learnodo-newtonic.com/emily-dickinson-famous-poems 10 of the Best Emily Dickinson Poems Everyone Should Read https://interestingliterature.com/2016/07/01/10-of-the-best-emily-dickinson-poems-everyone-should-read/