So, Day One for B-Day was a litle bit disjointed. No, really, even more disjointed than usual. Still, there was time to start the same thinking/imagining assignment from A Day One, but time ran out before all the responses were shared. Mr. B. cranked out another look-what-I-found piece of free verse:
a thousand diamonds shine
on the soles of our shoes
on the shoes of our souls
and we name them
Kwaku and Davonne
and Xavier and Hannah
and Ann
and Dopey and Sleazy and Bob
in the thousand shiny languages
of tables and chairs and lines and curves and crime scenes
today's crimes:
sloppy poetry, diamond smuggling, and destruction
of school propiety
the room is a mine
where gems may be found
diamonds and words and poems and plots
if we dig
if we go deep
if we go wide
and search together
and alone
*Christina C. waxed poetical in a way that was, we decided, more intended to polish the edges off the room and create a unified whole than Mr. B's jagged lingo. Her ideas generated the observation that all we ever have to communicate with, to make art or ideas out of, is our experience. (Despite public school persistent determination to separate our own experience from what we learn!)
*Johnathan H. contributed a smattering of scatological verse that was right on the money. His contribution led to an explanation from Mr. B. about the extreme importance of choosing the right language for the audience and purpose and context.
And the reason the response time was foreshortened?
In another fine Language Lab moment, the class created a list of the Seven Dwarves, taking the longest time to reach Bashful who would have been glad, we suppose, to have not been at the center of everyone’s memory and attention. Among the other dwarves mentioned along the way were: Sleazy, Greasy, Addled, Whitey, Blackie, Racisty, Saddy, Depressedy, Suicidally, and more. Did we mention Morey?
Why did we do this? Does anybody know? Mr. B. made up some spur-of-the-moment justification at the time, but did it hold water? He claims to be able to recall his reason, but does anybody else? Comments invited.
a thousand diamonds shine
on the soles of our shoes
on the shoes of our souls
and we name them
Kwaku and Davonne
and Xavier and Hannah
and Ann
and Dopey and Sleazy and Bob
in the thousand shiny languages
of tables and chairs and lines and curves and crime scenes
today's crimes:
sloppy poetry, diamond smuggling, and destruction
of school propiety
the room is a mine
where gems may be found
diamonds and words and poems and plots
if we dig
if we go deep
if we go wide
and search together
and alone
*Christina C. waxed poetical in a way that was, we decided, more intended to polish the edges off the room and create a unified whole than Mr. B's jagged lingo. Her ideas generated the observation that all we ever have to communicate with, to make art or ideas out of, is our experience. (Despite public school persistent determination to separate our own experience from what we learn!)
*Johnathan H. contributed a smattering of scatological verse that was right on the money. His contribution led to an explanation from Mr. B. about the extreme importance of choosing the right language for the audience and purpose and context.
And the reason the response time was foreshortened?
In another fine Language Lab moment, the class created a list of the Seven Dwarves, taking the longest time to reach Bashful who would have been glad, we suppose, to have not been at the center of everyone’s memory and attention. Among the other dwarves mentioned along the way were: Sleazy, Greasy, Addled, Whitey, Blackie, Racisty, Saddy, Depressedy, Suicidally, and more. Did we mention Morey?
Why did we do this? Does anybody know? Mr. B. made up some spur-of-the-moment justification at the time, but did it hold water? He claims to be able to recall his reason, but does anybody else? Comments invited.
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