February 1, 2011: Class Notes

Two Voice Poems

"The Worker and The Queen" :

• Two perspectives of two lives in the bee.
• Scientific details.
• Political.
• Rhyming served the content of the poem.

"I Heard It On The Bus One Day" : Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

Having children compare their lives in a two voice poem.

Farmer's Dog, Going To The Forest: Animal two voice poems

Birds on a Wire: The writers took turns writing couplets creating this two voice poems.

Standard Suggestions:

1st grade: Producers and consumers

4th grade: Explorer and explored

5th grade: sharecropper vs. landowner, Jim Crow vs. white southerner

Practice Poem: Jim Crow vs. White Southerner

Points of an agreement:

• Live in the same town
• Walk the same streets
• Ride the same bus
• Same God
• Taste of a handchurned ice cream

Different Perspectives

• Different Fountains
• Ride in the back/front of bus
• Go to different shops
• Worship in different churches
• Different schools
• Different pools
• Voting

Poem:

I live in Georgia. I live in Georgia.

I applied to UGA. I applied to UGA.

I was welcome.

I was not.

Brown vs. Board of Education was enforced.

We were saying. I heard them say.

"2,4,6,8

we don't want to integrate"

I was qualified. I was qualified.

And invited to a sorority.

I was spit on.

I went to rush.

I was escorted home.

Francis Wallis taught me English. Francis Wallis taught me English.

The black girl is in my class.

Stop looking at me.

She's a really good student.

She's so quiet. I don't want to talk.

Scientific observations

Sweet potato:

• shaped like a phone
• rough to the touch
• rust color
• curved
• divets
• mini wrinkles
• root
• dirty
• mild sweet scent
• lost his tail
• firm
• springy
• stringy, growing hairs
• orange inside

Rust-colored root

Curved like a phone

Wrinkled with hairs

Stains hands with dirt

Rough and firm to the touch

punctured divets cover the body

tail removed

autumn orange inside

mild sweet scent

Tastes best as

fries

baked

casserole

Lesson Planning

Choose a topic I hope/plan to be teaching. Go through notes of Holbrook's suggestions and find what would work best with the group I want to teach.

Kindergarten Math lesson plan:

Objective: identify and describe the 3-D shapes.

Concrete Poems:

Activities:

• Make sure that if you are making real life comparisons, the comparisons are reasonable for each child. Not all children have cube televisions.
• Cube: Students think of six descriptors of a cube and write it on each side of a flattened cube.
• sugar blocks
• dice
• present boxes
• unifix cubes
• rubic's cube
• blocks
• Sphere: Studentswill be given sticky labels and a ball. They will think of descriptors of their spheres and write them on sticky labels. They can then stick them onto their ball.

Limericks:

Activity:

• The teacher will read the entire group a limerick describing one learned shape at a time. After each or one limerick, the students will guess what shape is being described.

Assessment:

• identify cubes in real life
• recall the vocabulary, ex. A sugar "block" is a cube.

Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes by Judith Tannenbaum

• Recommended to primary teachers on how to teach poetry

Other ideas:

• Make a 100% poem about a historical figure.
• Culture pie: have the students describe their history through a culture pie, then through the year, have the students do the same for historical figures.
• Making the shape of a simple machine using the descriptive words

Love That Dog ^_^