Poetry Friday: The History Teacher by Billy Collins

There is no television on the farm and our internet service is mixed, but we can not avoid this terrible news: Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, five policemen. Gun violence Police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter. Politicians speak racist dialects and do nothing to stop violence and lead us to a better place

This morning, I am reading two blog posts. It is both hope and determination. I am an educator, I can take a few steps (even if they are only in my classroom wall) a better place. Jessica Lifshitz wrote as follows.

But we educate our children, we do not have the right to say that we do not know what to do. Because I am doing it. It may be afraid to do so. I do not know what to do. We may feel uncomfortable. But we know what we can do

We can do better. You can educate your children to do better. I can talk about race. You can share the story of other people who experienced racial discrimination. We can stop pretending to be that these are not the problems we want to discuss.

Even though the wisdom of Jess's post wielded in the mind, I found another article by Chris Lehmann "for the white teacher of the #BlackLivesMatter era". In that he shared a practical matter about us as a teacher. I propose. Moral obligation in the classroom

Regardless of whether you accept or not, these questions will enter our classroom. As Pia Martin (and others) remind us, there is nothing like passive anti - racial discrimination. As a white teacher, we do not have the luxury to pretend that the world will not affect our classrooms and students. Regardless of whether we choose to deal directly with the problem in the classroom, we all have the moral obligation to have compassion and compassion in the classroom.

I teach not only the reading and writing of the seminar but also the history. In the classroom you can open stories and discussions about current events and their historical background so that students can think, read and write about the events of concern. It is often dangerous. I asked my parents to call my administrator to complain that I must justify these conversations, explain their background and stick to my position. This is not easy for me. For young teachers who have not yet kept their term of office, I think how difficult it is to think about adventuring these dangerous waters. But he or she must do, we must all do

When carefully studying these dark and complicated ideas on Friday's poem, I turned to Billy Collins and his distorted and real poems:

The premise of this poem by Billy Collins (included in the highly regarded textbook "Reprint of Poetry") is that teachers (like Collins himself and me) really want students to enjoy poetry think. It is difficult to understand poetry and to be bored, and it must be influenced by students like punishment. This year I read poetry in the form of Shakespeare's play "Othello", but most of it is written in blank poetry. I also read the daily poems at the beginning of each lesson, one of which is to incorporate more verses into my life without analyzing or understanding. I regard the poem of this day as some small and magical beautiful things I introduced to your life.

Poetry poetry analysis poetic introduction The introduction of poetry written by British poet Billy Collins is about how teachers often try to interpret poems overly and to decipher every possible meaning drawn in poetry. Instead of letting students interpret the poems themselves based on their own experiences. In the whole poem, many literary tools were used. For example, "Press the hive with your ears" etc. Use this metaphor

Http: //www.bigsnap.com/g-nyt01.html In an interview with the Chicago poetry center in 2001, the poet Billy Collins used a travel metaphor to explain his view of poetry experience . He wants to use Collins' poetry "just a little" as his poem "may bring an imaginative journey" (www.poetrycenter.org/involved/news/billyandira.html) and Allagras I told him. Imagining travel ideas, I organized several activities for AP professors to use in the classroom. Adjust these materials freely according to your needs. When you join this student with this imaginative journey, I ask you to remember one thing: the basic goal for visitors is to enjoy a good time. The verses discussed by Billy Collins in this section are as follows.