eggish

child from blu on vimeo.

network

weary blues

english teacher made the kids memorize this poem and then recite it a week or so later. they were surprisingly (to me) into it, but why shouldn't they have been. what surprised me was the excitability they showed, especially the boys, practicing in other classes as the readings got closer. poetry is a great device for teaching reading- rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and phrasing. comprehension is a whole other lesson.
this other stuff is bonus footage/tangents found while searching for the poem.





one of the comments on this video posed: "is there any better video to accompany this song?"

commanders in chief

"i think when we talk about corporal punishment we have to think of our own children; and we're rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children. but because we are reluctant to do so, it seems to me, it puts a special obligation upon us to maintain order and to send children out from our home who are, who accept the idea of discipline, so that... i would not be for corporal punishment, but, in the school, but i would be for a very strong discipline at home so that we don't place an unfair burden upon our teachers."



how long shall they kill our prophets
while we stand aside and look?

b mind

don't mean maybe.

venus rising

cuff

what's up with this word? i hear it every day in the classroom and the school halls. it seems to be an all purpose word/phrase along the lines of "oh my god!" but is usually directed at something or someone the user has deemed stupid or worthy of insult, generally an adjective.

i resisted calling this post 'cufflinks,' but here (are/will be) a few.
also, along with links, i will be adding more thoughts to this post when time allows.

http://www.cuffs.stuorg.iastate.edu/