Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Tents of Hope Project

Everyone is welcome to stay after school tomorrow for our speaker who will talk about Darfur and what we can do to help the people there.
I have 4 panels that need to be painted today. The panels will go to Darfur next month. Please see me about staying after school today and/or tomorrow. I will provide snacks!
More pictures will follow. . .

Literature Circle Assignment

If you choose to do #3 (Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Story/Character) you can use this poem as your inspiration.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.
III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime.
IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause.
VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?
VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles.
X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds.
XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Pictures from Tents of Hope Project







Pictures from Tents of Hope project