Thursday, April 29, 2021
DAY 8 MEMORIES AND IMAGERY
TWO OHIO-BORN POETS
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
DAY 7 DUEBER & DAY 10 FRANKLIN : A POETRY JAM
COSTUMES
Real poets dress up sometimes
PROGRAM
Reading our poems and showing our broadsides
REFRESHMENTS
WATER, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL
DRINK
(Lyrics by Diane Kendig, from her family musical,
"Talk to the Moon," with music by Jack Taylor)
Water,
what a beautiful drink!
Water, just stop and think:
You can have it with chicken, beef, or bread
Without
ever worrying, WHITE or RED,
Without
the frig that you need for milk,
That
you need for juice and drinks of that ilk.
CHORUS: Water,
what a beautiful drink!
Water, just stop and think:
You
can have it just melted from the Nevada,
Or
frozen and flavored Piña Colada,
Water,
just stop and think:
What
a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, |beautiful drink!
Thursday, April 22, 2021
DAY 6 BROADSIDES
POETRY
BROADSIDES
What
they are
Broadsides
were posters invented in Europe in the 1600s and popular in America in the
1700s. They were made on old fashioned presses, where each letter had to be set individually and each page pressed with the inked letters, one page at a time.
Then in the 1960s and 70s, they became a popular way to publish individual poems, still using the old printing presses. Here is a press in downtown Canton, "Print and Press Shop & Studios," which uses the old presses to print hand-made cards and given lessons in using these types of machines.
Here is a news story about the printer and shop that shows "Letterpress Jess" making cards on the letterpress machines:
Some broadsides are still made today on letterpresses. Many are collectors’ items. Here is a beautiful one by Akron poet Mary Biddinger
Many thanks to Mary and to the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center for permission to show you this poem. Find more of their great work in paper at their website .
Required:
*Title
*Author (by Your Name)
*The Poem
Check for spelling, punctuation, missing words
Have Ms. Diane check your editing before you make final copy
Optional:
*Border decoration (Top, bottom, and/or sides) - LEAVE SPACE
*Art
*COLOPHON: Information about the publication: like date, place, font, dedication, how made,
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
DAY 4 ; DRAFTING OUR IDEAS, RHYME AND ALLITERATION
WE HAVE TWO TASKS TODAY
First
We will get some paper and sketch out our ideas for our poem on heroes, answering the three questions I posed last class:
1. Why are you writing this praise poem?
2. Who are the heroes you are praising (1-3) and give some details about them
3. How do they inspire us? What do they inspire you to do?
And maybe, think about a title. Can you use alliteration like Amanda Gorman did?
Second
The NYT had a page for kids on what makes us happy and what doesn't make us happy, based on scientific research:
We will fill in a smiley and a frowny face on the things that make us happy and unhappy and tape them to poster board-- and ours will have a rhyme or an alliteration. Here is Diane's
😊Masks help us stay healthy and out of the hospital
😓Wearing a mask
Can be a hard task
Sunday, April 11, 2021
DAY 3 Intro to Amanda Gorman and Writing About Heroes
poem led her to be invited to write and recite a new poem for Super Bowl LV. It is an ode to heroes in our year of Covid-19, and we are going to study it and write an ode to our own heroes.
Here two sports announcers introduce the poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iyaee8AP-M
Here is her reading the Super Bowl poem (for our ears):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ejbSCjg2qo
Here is a backup video: https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/02/07/amanda-gorman-super-bowl-lv-poem-video
Here is an interview where she talks about herself: her childhood problems and her successes and her writing process:
Here is a copy of the poem (for ours eyes):
"Chorus of the Captains"
by Amanda Gorman
Today we
honor our three captains
For their actions and impact in
A time of uncertainty and need.
They’ve taken the lead,
Exceeding all expectations and limitations
Uplifting their communities and neighbors
As leaders, healers, and educators.
James
has felt the wounds of warfare,
But this warrior still shares
His home with at-risk kids.
During Covid, he’s event lent a hand,
Live-streaming football for family and fans.
Trimaine
is an educator who works nonstop,
Providing his community with hotspots,
Laptops, and tech workshops,
So his students have all the tools
They need to succeed in life and school.
Suzie is
the ICU nurse manager at a Tampa Hospital.
Her chronicles prove that even in tragedy, hope is possible.
She lost her grandmothers to the pandemic,
And fights to save other lives in the ICU battle zone,
Defining the frontline heroes risking their lives for our own.
Let us
walk with these warriors,
Charge on with these champions,
And carry forth the call of our captains!
We celebrate them by acting
With courage and compassion,
By doing what is right and just.
For while we honor them today,
It is them who every day honor us.
Discussion:
Who have your heroes been in this past year? Why?
Can anyone find any examples of alliteration in the poem? Any rhyme?
The poem, like the classic ode has three sections: the strophe, antistrophe, and epode. You don't have to know those terms, but let's look at how Amanda Gorman is using them: The strophe (Stanza 1), The antistrophe (Stanza 2-5), and the Epode (Stanza 6).
ASSIGNMENT: Your assignment will be to write an ode to your hero or heroes from the past year. Your poem needs three parts:
Part 1 - Tell what your poem is about, why it is honoring
Part 2 - Choose 1, 2 or 3 heroes. For each, have a stanza where you describe in detail what that hero has done for you and/or for others.
Part 3 - Tell how these heroes have inspired you and what you are going to do now because of them.
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For teachers:
This is a PBS News Hour Lesson Plan for teaching the Inaugural poem.:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons-plans/lesson-plan-discuss-22-year-old-amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-miracle-morning/
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
DAY 2 DUEBER: AND FRANKLIN: revision
Yesterday we drafted poems about our school. Robbie, Ms. Diane's dog found them very interesting:
The first draft is often messy, as we can see:
Ms. Diane typed them up for us to see today, and we will decide if we want any changes:
DUEBER
SCHOOL, 2021
by Mrs. Grady's class
We love our
school: Fun! Cool! Awesome!
It is
colorful inside – decorations of red and many colors—
and outside,
with its tan bricks and a silver sign: DUEBER SCHOOL.
In the 1800s,
it was big and tall, with dark red bricks.
There are
smells of pizza and Mrs. Grady’s pumpkin air freshener,
Sounds when the Canton firetrucks and police cars go by
And fire drills and Miss Shower speaking announcements.
It’s different
this year:
We wear
masks,
We need to
be six feet apart.
We were 26,
then 13, now there’s 10 of us in the room.
It always
feels warm: no AC…till this year,
And next
year, it won’t be a school but a food place.
We are going
to miss Dueber School.
FROM DUEBER
SCHOOL IN CANTON, OHIO 2021
by Mrs. Jones' class
Our school
is awesome.
On the
outside yellow daffodils grow in the grass
And the tan
brick building’s silver sign says, “DUEBER SCHOOL.”
In the
1800s, it was big, high, red-brown brick
Near Dueber
Hampton Watch Factory.
Time. We
learn time in school.
Our school
smells like food, like chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy.
We like our
school because it has wonderful teachers.
Our teacher,
Mrs. Jones, is the best. She says:
“Booty in
the chair, not in the air,” and “Sit down.
Now.”
Other
sounds: the firetruck goes by. Mr. Andy
mowing the grass.
And we
scream on the playground. We always do.
Last year,
we talked to everyone on line on a little screen.
Google meet
would keep going off.
Now we meet
in the room, keep our masks up.
Next year,
we go to Cedar School
And this? It’s
going to be a food center.
Good-bye Dueber.
MASSILLON
CITY SCHOOLS ARE THE BEST
Franklin is the best school ever
It has the
best teachers (Gardner, Schrock, Knight)
There is a
lot of history in Franklin
In 1901, the
old school was taller and had taller windows,
Fewer flowers, fewer trees
Chimneys, pillars, a pointed roof and
a lot of steps
These are
some of the things we know about the old Franklin.
But now, by
all the trees, before you turn in here,
You see an abandoned
church and a fence where a horse used to be
(Mrs.
Gardner says he got out all the time)
Then, you turn in and see a long low
building, a gray wall
With silver
letters: FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,
A flag,
buses, cars. You hear screaming on the playground,
Our outside
voices, buses pulling out.
Inside it
smells like kids.
And you hear
the click of cafeteria trays,
kind voices,
and lots of talking and describing:
“Pull up
your mask,” “You must use social distance,”
“Cough on
your arm.”
You see tons
of clocks, letters, and numbers.
àNext year we go to the Fourth Grade School
And learn
lots of new things.
Monday, April 5, 2021
DAY ONE: GROUP POEM ON OUR SCHOOL Franklin
Prompt:
Today, we are going to write a group poem about our school: its history; what it looks like, smells like, feels like; what we remember of our first days here; saying good-bye?
Research, thinking, discussing
Some history:
1) Franklin Elementary School (1901-1909)
"In 1901, a new building was erected to replace Richville Avenue School; it occupied approximately the same location as the former school. It was planned so that its east side would face East Street (the present Third Street S.E.) and its west side would face Fay Street S.E. This school was named Franklin Elementary School and contained eight rooms." (from "A History of Massillon City Schools")
2) The Gish Sisters
Some images:
Richville, which became Franklin
The old Franklin Elementary:
A class at the old Franklin Elementary - 1905: Lillian Gish in the photo
Our school today:
I am indebted to Massillon archivist
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for the history and images of Franklin Schools. Please visit this terrific museum virtually or in person when you are in the area,
DAY ONE: GROUP POEM ON OUR SCHOOL Dueber
Prompt:
Today, we are going to write a group poem about our school: its history; what it looks like, smells like, feels like; what we remember of our first days here; saying good-bye?
Research, thinking, discussing
Some images related to our school
We will post our poem here when it's ready.