Welcome to Our Blog!

Our classroom blog was created as a place where we can meet online together to reflect on and explore ideas, share opinions, discuss various topics and also create! I am so excited to be a part of all the learning that is going to go on here and I hope you are, too! Now, what about the name of our blog? The Read Wheelbarrow was chosen as a "play on words" and refers to a very interesting poem (I think) by William Carlos Williams called The Red Wheelbarrow. It is the first of many, many poems we will read and discuss. With it our blogging adventure begins...so, happy blogging everyone!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Another Great Poem....!

I hope you enjoyed The Red Wheelbarrow! Here is a very different poem to consider - it is one of my favourites, but let's see what you think...Remember to tell me WHY you think what you do! There are a lot of great details in this short poem...tell me what you notice and what ideas you have about it.

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(another interesting name!)

Are there any words you do not know? How can you find out what they mean? What do you think "the azure world" is?
I'm looking forward to reading about your ideas!
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

...And A Video Clip to Consider, Too

I found this video clip and thought it was a very creative way to communicate this poem....what do you think? - Ms. K.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqRhDdeKDA
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