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Valerie E. Hardy -----Original Message----- From: Sally Thomas <sally.thom...@verizon.net> To: mosaic listserve <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 4:12 pm Subject: [MOSAIC] Awakening Heart poetry discussion Some of my thoughts to start us off with the Introduction and Chapter 1..... Georgia mentions hearing a woman asking her husband if she has poetry inside er. o you have poetry inside you? Do you think it¹s vital that a teacher has r learns to have poetry inside to teach children to love poetry?? If you on¹t think you have it, how would you go about growing it?? remember writing kind of silly poems in elementary. Certainly not loving oetry. High school, hmmm not really. College I was an English major and id love the Romantics. But it¹s been since then that poetry has actually ntered my life deeply. Think it was partly deciding to work with poetry ith my high school students and later elementary students that dipped me in o deeply and passionately. My students enthusiastic response caused a eciprocal response inside me. So I would say I didn¹t originally have oetry in my heart. I think we can grow it as we experience it with our tudents!! I still feel unsure at times when I write poetry. It still eels like a risk. But my students demand that I take that risk. eorgia comments on the importance of listening deeply so we can hear the oetry seeds inside our students. I think about the pressures we are acing in schools at this point in time and that those pressures make me ield hurried, and sadly that pressure seems to make me actually talk too uch. How do we carve out that time to listen? And to see our children ith new eyes that can find the important seeds that are theirs? eorgia talks about the importance of choice and time. She suggests poetry enters. ¹m wondering which center or centers would you start with and why? do remember some powerful poetry my students wrote when I created a center I didn¹t have this idea for regular centers then) around Georgia O²Keefe. e had studied her art a bit in my 5/6 class. I set up an art center which ncluded a cow skull, a nautilus shell, and a red oriental poppy. Students bserved first, just informally writing details they noticed. Then they ketched and/or painted. Then they wrote poetry. It was pretty amazing. It ook well over a week but was one of the best experiences of the year.the ids said. Oh and I did use the poem that Georgia shares about looking at omething carefully and deeply to introduce the whole thing. So I am eager o try some of the other centers here though some speak to me more than thers. Grab onto any of these comments or start your own. HERE WE GO! ally _______________________________________________ osaic mailing list os...@literacyworkshop.org o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
