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I think last week was also exciting for me as well because I am finally seeing everyone grow as autonomous learners. I have seen Angelica connect to an article I shared on Twitter on a real level and reflect on her blog. Kristen is not just tweeting, but sharing and curating content about multiple topics. . . and if you haven't been reading Nora's blog, you are missing a very interesting and introspective learning journey. Maureen's in mouse ears, Stephanie wants more virtual classes, and has even admitted she kinda-sorta likes Twitter. . .Jeff S. comes to CSUSM to pursue a personal interest, on a Saturday. . .then blogs about it. Lindsay is, I think, sending us a sign(language). We have made amazing strides, both Nour and Far (Click Here).
I think this has as much to do with trust as it does intrinsic motivation. . .I only wish we had another month to sit back and watch the magic happen. . .whatever it has been, I can sincerely say, "Thank You," for trusting me enough to take this journey!
Question: What is one of your favorite poems or poets? Feel free to share a poem in the comments. . .
I love the classics of Shel Silverstein, E.E. Cummings, and Robert Frost, but one of my favorite current poets is Taylor Mali. He is an English teacher and a slam poet who has a bunch of his poems on YouTube. I often show some of his work when teaching poetry to show how you can bring a poem alive through the performance of reading it.
ReplyDeleteMy two favorites are:
"What Teachers Make"--http://youtu.be/RxsOVK4syxU
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"Totally like whatever, you know?"--http://youtu.be/pKyIw9fs8T4
More info on him and his work can be found here: http://www.taylormali.com/
Hands down: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. I personally think he is all time best playwright and poet; and this sonnet is about how life triumphs death. Beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteShall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Also I had to memorize it for a class in undergrad...so I'm sure that's another reason I like it.
ReplyDeleteThere are two specific poems that I absolutely love.
ReplyDeleteOne is Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabelle Lee," and the second is a poem I read when I was a little kid from Chicken Soup fr The Teenage Soul called, "Someone should have taught him." They are both very sad but I was an emotional teenager so that is probably why I loved them so much.
well it has been a long time since I read english poem.. but I like some of the arabic poets.. one of them is called Elia Abu madi. He is a Labanes poet who moved from lebanon to New York in 1889 or 1890. his poems optimistic and outgoing to life by using nature and beauty
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