(This hilarious poster comes from despair.com. . .)Good news: I was able to get us into a Mac Lab with newer, faster, nicer computers. We will be in University Hall, room 271. For those new to CSUSM, University Hall is the building you would run into if you walked up the stairs by the main entrance (where the flags are). I will post a sign in SCI 306, but please inform your peers if you see any of them.
This week: you should be well into your newsletter. I will show you how to include your scan if you need help in class. We will also get an introduction to TaskStream and the NETS for both teachers and students. There were only two students who hadn't purchased TaskStream accounts. . .if that is you, please do so ASAP. If time permits, we will also begin the PowerPoint assignment. Check your grades and/or inbox to ensure you have a grade for the del.icio.us assignment!
Journal #3: Yesterday, I noticed that ISTE was doing some sort of maintenance on its computers. I went to the site today and the L&L is back to August. Anyway, I am going to give you an article for T-H-E Journal about plagiarism software. The article, "A War of Words" by Jim Paterson, is from the Sept 07 issue. I have a link to T-H-E Journal on our blog, so feel free to search the site for cool articles.
This week's Question: What is your favorite poem or who is your favorite poet? My favorite poem is "If", by Rudyard Kipling, and my favorite poet is probably Langston Hughes or Pablo Neruda
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My favorite poem is "The Awakening" by David Ignatow. He is an aclaimed poet from the NY area. This poem is about how the love between a couple can just wither away silently, without warning; then shock, it's gone. I can relate, that's all I say! His work is contemporary, kinda gritty, and yet not pretentious. It's poetry that doesn't try too hard to be poetry. Love it!
My favorite poem is "The Wasteland" by TS Elliot. This poem has so much depth; it is hard to sum up in a few short words, here...It is generally about lack of spirituality and the lack of purpose a life can have.
I don't have one favorite poet, really, but do love the works of Robert Browning, Langston Hughes, and Edgar Allen Poe (I have Halloween on the brain right now! ; )), among others.
When I was a kid, I had to memorize "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too" by Shel Silverstein. It is about three characters flying off into a new world never to have looked back. Today, my cousin Eileen is one of my favorite poets. She always sends them via email. Most people I know send boring text through email. She is from a different generation and chooses to use email as a form of art. I love that about her.
I do not read poetry. But, if I had to choose a poet to read it would it would probably Henry Davit Thoreau. I do not know if he is considered a poet, but his essays on civil disobedience and
Walden always seemed poetic to me.
My favorite poem is actually the only one that Johnny Cash ever wrote called The Ragged Old Flag. It is very Patrotic. I heard it as a child and always liked it. This last year I went to Washington D.C. with my daughter's class and we made CD's for everyone from the picture's I took, and had this poem set to music as part of the CD.
My favorite poem is "Let me not to the marriage of true minds: Sonnet 116.
Shakespear is my favorite poet and writer. His work is still allilve today and still has relevence.
My favorite poet would have to be Edgar Allen Poe. I enjoyed reading hjis poetry throught middle and high school.
My favorite poem is Trees by Kilmer. I have a first edition of the book it was published in. He died in WWI. Who knows what he might have come up with in time. My favorite long term poet is probably Frost, but there are afew others I enjoy as well.
I like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock" by T.S. Elliot. Very romantic.
I really like "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes. Loreena McKennitt sings a beautiful version of this poem too.
My favorite poem is footprints by Mary Stevenson. You could say I am a religious person. It is very uplifting and encouraging to me and it reminds me that the hard times are really not that hard. :)
I don't really have a favorite poem or poet. I like all of them. Usually every poem I read I like except for the the very depressing ones where the author wants to kill him/her self.
My favorite poem is "Casey at Bat". Before children, I was an avid Houston Astro's baseball fan. I seem to read this poem every year to my college students, when my team "crashes and burns" in post-season. I look forward to my boys getting hooked on baseball...now they think it is too boring!
One of my favorite poets is Rumi, he was a persian who started or was a whirlling dervish. Don
I'm not an avid poetry reader. I'd much ralther read a novel. However,I enjoy reading poems by Shel Silverstein to my students. They're short and funny.
I enjoy the poem "If you forget me" by Pablo Neruda
Recently, I have read a lot of Maya Angelou's poems. My favorite is, 'I know why the caged bird sings'. The poem portrays the difference between the life of a free bird and a caged bird. It says how the caged bird can only dream of the freedom it once knew and therefore sings a different tune.
I spent the past two days driving home from Seattle, and in those 15 hours or so, I could not think of a single favorite poem or poet. I do like "Footprints", as I feel that every now and then we could all use a spiritual pick me up. However, there was one poem that did keep popping in my head throughout the long drive. The author is unknown to me. It came from an Avon catalog. When I was a little boy, I used to tag along with my mom on her sales calls, and this just seemed to stick.
"There once was a lady named Gert.
She was all covered with grime and dirt. So she jumped in the tub, gave herself a scrub, and said, "now really, that didn't hurt".
My favorite poet is Shel Silverstein. Reading "Where the Sidewalk Ends" always puts a smile on my face!!
My favorite poem is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I think it's a very clever poem and holds lots of truth.
My favorite poet is Robert Frost. My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken. Everytime I have to make a decision in life, I recite this poem to myself...and always choose the road less traveled.
My favorite poet is Jim Morrison, I guess, and I suppose maybe "awake" is a favorite.
I don't have a favorite poem that belongs to my better half. I read many poems but nothing that I could put as favorite. Most of the poems that I read have been from a book entiteled 'The Valley of Vision'. It is a book of puritan prayers and devotions.
Paul C.
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