#14 - The Wind Whispers

Today was my technology day.  A group of teachers from around the area meet.  We have teacher facilitators sharing ideas, knowledge and skills.  I always look forward to attending Cadre.  Today is the last for this year.  Today is PI day - fun to celebrate.  So why do I feel empty, tired distant?

I just came in.  Its warm outside.  I see green plants peeking out of the ground and even a few early bloomers.  The breeze is stirring a few tenacious leaves still attached to tree limbs dance and flutter. I can hear the bell like tones as the chimes keep the rhythm of the whistling wind.  All this framed by a gray sky.

Warm outside

Green plants peeking

Flowers blooming early

Tenacious leaves still clinging to branches

Dance and flutter

Chimes ring and call

As the wind whispers

To the gray sky.

Singing Contralto - Found Poem

When Marian Sang:  The True Recital of Marian Anderson, The Voice of a Century - Pam Munoz Ryan

Last year I found this biographical picture book.  I fell in love with it.  There are so many ways to use it in the library and the classroom.  First it is a biography.  Second it has to do with the Civil Rights Movement.  Then I think of Core Standards and I think of what primary sources are available.  I also think of research.  My question - Did the DAR prevent Marian Anderson from singing at the DAR Constitution Hall or was it the decision of the manager, Fred E. Hand?

I recently learned of “Found Poetry”.  The poem -“Contralto Singing” is the found poem I wrote based on the text at the site http://www.mariananderson.org/legacy/index.html It is my first found poem.

I am also experimenting with audio and qr codes for the classroom.  My idea is to open a “Poetry Cafe”.  Students will read aloud their own work and share it with their families online.

Tools I’m experimenting with:
Recording
      Audioboo   http://audioboo.fm/
      SoundCloud  http://soundcloud.com/
      Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/
      Garage Band http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

QR codes
      SanpVu  http://snap.vu/
      QR stuff  http://www.qrstuff.com/

Poetry Cafe

Singing Contralto - Found Poetry


You can also listen to the recording by going to http://snap.vu/uajv

Singing Contralto (Found Poem by Ruth Ferris)

from the text http://www.mariananderson.org/legacy/index.html

From
Family on Webster Street
Simple dignity, charming

A voice
Heard
Singing

Lincoln Memorial Concert -1939.

Singing
A voice heard
Once in a hundred years

Emotional impact
Broke color barrier - 1955

Emotional impact
A  singing legacy

Marian Anderson
1897-1993.