Group 4 Day Two, An Educational Find

I found something on the NCTE website, concerning teaching poetry in the classroom, A few quotes about how to teach poetry in the High School. This book was written by Albert B. Somers,(chapter Nine) where he wanted poetry in the classroom. Where he wanted the specfic to the generalized in an inductive way of writing. How poets make choices in making their decisions in picking a word or a sentence. Have them work on the poetic experience for about two weeks in class.
My thoughts on this, I used to like poetry and writing, but find it going back to a bad experience where feel it was not my thoughts on paper but trying to please an audience to win some poetry slam or seem my views were like everybody's else's. By writing in an inducitve manner are asking your students to something detail oreinted in the begining and wrote the general thoughts last instead at the start of the poem.

From Easter 1916, William Butler Yeats, Group 4 Poetry

From Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats

A shadow of cloud on the strear
change minute by minute,
A horse hoof slides on the brain
And a horse plush within it
The long legged moor hens dive

My Poem
A horse is a shadow on the moor
The hens are change by minute
Slides plush within it the long legged
A horse brain on the moor in the dive
Along side the moor the hens cluck
in the rainy moor glen

The clouds open up to the minute and
minute by the trembling sky

The Moon

How the moon affects the tides, the moon affects by her longing to be with the Sun and how she must affects the how the tides in rage in pipelines off of Hawaii and calmness of the lakes of the Great Lakes. The moon has the control on how the tides affect with the emotional response of the her wanting to be with the Sun, the moon wanted to be with the Sun but the other planets did not want her to only taking up all the attention. So the Other planets made the moon a barren cold rock that floats around the Earth, controls the tides of that planet in order to see the Sun just briefly for that moment the tides on Earth are calm but they not together, there are great hurricanes and storms.

Nature, Forests Free Write

The light shining through the trees and magical surrounds the forest
It looks like a dark forest where nobody hikes through or does not do any thing that involve themselves in the picture. It looks very surreal and tranquil. The forest is all around the green moss on the trees where the little covers and the unproven path is covered with previous Fall leaves no body looks at the bright sunbeams reaching itself through the dark leaves. The it looks very warm and humid. With so many trees and no animals in sight. The forest looks empty and nothing to get from the sight.

Hollywood, must disappear

Ryan Seacrest must go away
How we must talk about American Idol
and the way we must continually about your so -called perfect life

He life is full of fluff and nothingness
Paris Hilton sightings
Nicole Richie suicide watches
Just taking in and breathing in air
That would save the rain forest or something

There is a barrage full of rags at the supermarket checkout counters
with fake tans, trendy foods, people driving drunk with your kids.
But we make them role models or try to at least
Botox is starting to stag off the face and try to be as
vacant as these people who greatest career highlight is punching
people in the face,

I just paid twelve dollars to see your last film, which by the way
was two hours too long and can not get back
so when i see you on the front cover of Whatever magazine
has you catch in a "moment" just pass on

More about me

Living in Hamtramck was interested.

My Degree is in Communications, so had became my teachable minor here at Western. So , I can teach speech and debate, and broadcasting classes as well. Actually, I traveled by myself in Britain staying in the Midlands(Birmingham,West Side England) it was pretty a lot different from what I expected growing up and talk about being diverse. A lot of Indians and Jamaicans, Middle Eastern, so I got hook on curry while I was over there.

About Me

Well, I have A lot to say about myself, first I am from the Detroit area, mostly from Birmingham,MI ( where I graduated a dozen years ago do the math.)and lived in Hamtramck,MI after I graduated from Oakland University http://www4.oakland.edu/ , in Communications where I felt I could not get a job after 9/11 because of the market. I moved to Hamtramck,MI thinking I could have wrote the next great American novel, that was a joke, where I met a really good writer Vivee Francis, she is a really great poet and taught myself about true calling as a Teacher not a writer. After Living in Hamtramck for a couple years of being disrepected by varoius roommates, friends etc.. I decided to play Rugby for a Detroit club http://www.detroitrugby.org/ , where I played for a couple years where I traveled to Great Britian for a month and half. After playing rugby and in an constent self esteem issue I moved out the Detroit area, where moved to Kalamazoo,MI to get my post-bach in Secondary Education, where someday I loved to teach in the Southwest of the country. I never felt better in my life, where have a place to go and people to rely me on.