My English 8I is a cell phone.
Michael is the loudspeaker;
no one can find the button to turn him off.
Justin is text messaging
he likes to keep it brief.
Zack is doom who signals
when you go over your minutes.
Sandip is the ringtone
that I forget to put on silence.
Dae’ Aja, Jessaymn, and Raven are
constant conversations never on hold.
Austin is the keypad
he working digitally
in an efficient fashion.
Sarah and Kamylia are Verizon
the gang in the background
who keep us connected.
Rolando is the camera jumping to catch a shot of what’s going on.
Philip and Anthony are the screen; you can see that they are working.
Megan and Ariana are the help desk lending tech support when we’re in trouble
Raheem is voice mail with a kind greeting for those who can’t reach us.
And I am the case struggling to keep us all working for the future.
Chaloux 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Constuctive Comments
Post the Faces and Facade poem to your blog. Comment on @ least one posting. Comment on images that appeal to the senses, vivid verbs, alliteration, onomatopoeia, dialogue, thoughtshots, snapshots, exploded moments, shrunken centuries... If it is good let them know what part so they can recreate it in future writings. If a part is weak let them know what part so that they can correct it. (Directions @ Chaloux/Poetry/Faces and Facades
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Ba Da Bing Sentences
from Revising the Essay by Bernabei
A Ba Da Bing sentence describes where you are, what you saw and what you thought.
eyes from commons.wikimedia.org
Say, Mean, Matter 17
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker
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Say, Mean, Matter 15
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle
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