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Hello Spring!

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.-Hal Borland

March 20: Today is the vernal equinox, when night and day are exactly the same length. 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Writing Prompt: Poetry inspired by "Blue Bird" by Charles Bukowski

Credited for this Lesson: Film English

Step One: View the Film discuss what you think the film is trying to say.

Step Two: Listen to the poet, Charles Bukowski reading "Blue Bird" without viewing the images

Step Three: Discuss in groups what they think the poem is trying to say

Step Four: Watch the reading of the poem with the images

Step Five:  Write what type of person you think the poet is and what type of life he has led.

Blue Bird

Step Five: Write your interpretation of the poem based on the class discussions.
Step Six:  Using the two films as your inspiration, write a poem.

What is the poem about?  Highlight below to see...
The poem is about our compulsion to hide and stifle our most tender and vulnerable selves underneath tough, controlled exteriors.

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Pi Day Poetry

View the video and follow the directions to create you Pi Poem.  Use as much of Pi or as little as you like.  Have fun!

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Weeping in the Deep

Mighty ship
Sunk
Hidden in dark
Cold
Weeping in the deep
Hopes and dreams dead with those asunder
Drifting
Forever in shadows
Its former self
Gone with waves
A Tale of heaven
Turned into a story of forboding hell

By T.W.

The Sinking

Titanic
Dark
Cold outside and
Wet
Turning to its side
Sinking into the freezing water
She's gone
Some people in lifeboats
Some people have drowned
Bright lights shine
On the ocean blue
Carpathia come to the rescue

By T.T.


Have you written a Piaku or Pi Poem?  If you have, share one of your with us!

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Don't Forget, Spring Forward!

Daylight Saving Time (United States) 2013 begins at 2:00 AM on
Sunday, March 10
and ends at 2:00 AM on
Sunday, November 3

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Happy birthday, Gabriel Garcia Marquez!

Happy birthday, Gabriel Garcia Marquez! The master of magical realism was born 86 years ago today in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927 .

Quotes

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” 
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” 
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Writing Prompt Sites

Are you looking for great writing prompts?  Well, here are two great sites: Photo Prompts and Writing Prompts  Let us know what you think!  How do you use writing prompts in the classroom?

Need more sites to rev up your writing juices.  Check these out:

Learning Blogs New York Times
Teach Hub Writing Prompts
Creative Writing Prompts

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Writing Prompt: Titanic Analogy

Prompt Credit: Writing Prompt

Respond to the prompt!  Make sure you explain/address the Titanic CONNECTION!

NOTE:

Definition of ANALOGY
1.  inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others
2
      a : resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity
      b : comparison based on such resemblance
3.  correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form
4  correspondence in function between anatomical parts of different structure and origin — compare homology

Great Source for Writing Prompts: Writing Prompt

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