Interesting blog post from author Beth Kephart about poetry. Fun since I just posted about Going Over yesterday and poetry just before that:
http://beth-kephart.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-it-is-time-again-to-teach-i-turn.html
As I continue to rethink my approach to the teaching of poetry in AP literature this year, I am pleased at the ease with which Kephart accesses poetry to prepare for teaching!
"What can I tell you, what should you know? There is a line between us, a wall as wide as a river; it has teeth. IT is barbed and meshed and bricked--155 kilometers of wrong." Beth Kephart, Going Over
Read More"But to live continually in the natter of ill-written and ill-spoken prose is to become deaf to what language can do."
Read MoreI loved this article about the young Brontes' hand made books! Make sure you look at the gallery pages to see both the text and the teeny little stitches that hold these tiny treasures together!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kasiagalazka/the-brontes-wrote-tiny-books
This article causes me to question just a bit whether or not we allow our kids enough time to be creative. By that, I mean with paper and scissors and glue and handwriting. Do we go so quickly to the digital that we are hampering at any level the kind of creativity that results in Jane Eyre.
When asked to contribute to the development of a final project, my AP literature students had one request - NO TECHNOLOGY.
"Hope has no feathers.
Hope takes flight
Tethered with twine
like a tattered kite,
slave to the wind's capricious drift,
eager to soar
but needing lift..." Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire