Capture performances and create class CDs, film clips or perform for other classes or in assembly. We may never fully understand Tyger but we can have it by heart and love the mystery. Bring poems alive with great reading and do not be afraid to use percussive instruments to provide a ...
Writeforfun has asked if I’m still taking poetry classes and I promised poetry prompts this week. My classes thus far haven’t yielded prompts or I would have shared. These two came along because I had an opportunity to submit a poem to an anthology in honor of the late poet Gwendolyn ...
I love chatting with elementary and middle school classes about writing: why poetry is fun to read and write, the importance of revision, and how imagination and creativity can lead to fantastic careers!My presentationsare tailored to fit the needs of the classes and students’ ages. One day ...
the remaining people of Palestine are barely surviving.Macklemoreis one rapper to address the issue in his new songHinds Hall. He also read a poem for Gaza at a recent concert,but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Poets are stepping up and showing out to make ...
All the new knowledge ran through my mind like a whirlwind, all the books, classes and lectures all mixed in my brain, more and more inspiration twirled inside me. “Love can sometimes be a gift from God, Couples think they’re like to peas in a pod. ...
Marxism looks at how classes emerge in society as to what and how much access the people have to the ownership and control of the means of production. The upper, ruling classes own more at the expense of the lower classes, who are the oppressed. Socialism propagates ideas that the workers...
The most difficult to sort were kids I’d had in my preschool classes, or, as I moved up in grades, in third grade. Those cute little baby-faces and tiny bodies now stood before me as teenagers, sometimes sporting facial hair. They resembled the adults they would soon become. ...
I was handed heroes and heroines who had all different skin colors, were of different social classes, were skinny and fat, were gifted at different things—who were good, even if they weren’t always terribly nice. And I think she handed me that particular book—the book in which a ...
This was the Religion 301 student manual for BYU Old Testament classes and is full of detailed information about the scriptures and the background and context of the times. Church Educational System, Old Testament Student Manual 1 Kings–Malachi (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,...
I’m usually asleep before 9 anyway, but all the work we’re putting in gives me more of a reason to just rest. Between house adventures and marriage classes and finalizing as many wedding details as we can while still working full time, I’ve realized my lack of a drive to write. ...