Quiz: How well do you know your students. Match the student to their shoe to receive teaching credit for the day
Category: Interventions
Harryette Mullen Prep Pages
Part B: Close Reading of “Black Nikes” Harryette Mullen’s “Black Nikes” expresses the desire for escape and transcendence by juxtaposing cosmic imagery with the dirt and soil of our muddy planet. “We need quarters like King Tut needed… Read More
Leigha O’Hara response
For the poem I read closest, “Personal Poem” I think that a large portion of potential meaning making or lack there of comes from the potential connection or disconnection between author and speaker of the poem. I… Read More
For Class 10/31
In “Why I am Not a Painter”, Frank O’Hara writes, “One day I am thinking of / a color: orange. I write a line / about orange. Pretty soon it is a / whole page of words, not… Read More
A Close (and personal?) Reading
Close read a poem/poems: Is O’Hara a personal poet? Does he create intimacy with the reader? Respond to the self who writes the poems. O’Hara strikes me as a much more personal writer than others whom we have… Read More