tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237385022009-11-28T08:55:07.859-05:00<i>there's a poet let loose in the library...</i>Andromeda Jazmonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comBlogger1133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23738502.post-12566442335140665492009-11-21T06:41:00.004-05:002009-11-21T06:54:58.858-05:00

Last week at church, chatting with Dave and his wife Sue, I discovered he plays Santa for us at the Feast of St. Nicholas. I never knew it was him. He nodded over at my Buddy and said "He's gotten so tall this year. How is he doing in school?" Sue laughed and said "Santa is watching!" "It's true," Santa said, "I keep my eye on him. He has been my special project every year." "We are a little

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Trisha, at Miss Rumphius Effect, has given us the charge in this week's Monday Poetry Stretch: try a new form called "rictameter, an unrhymed, 9-line poem with a syllable count of 2/4/6/8/10/8/6/4/2 in which the first and last lines are the same." Swine Flu with Asthma  Long night. Coughing non-stop - little guy has the flu. No one rests, not mom, who thinks she might be going to the ER

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chrysanthemum jeweled with morning dew next to the gas pumps -Andromeda Jazmon

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I have been so busy at work, home, and grad school that I have missed Friday Poetry for several weeks. (I have been blogging at my library school student blog instead of here.) But when Miss Rumphius did her Monday Poetry Stretch on the poetic form Roundel, I had to jump in. Fall is just the perfect season for a circular form like this. A roundel is composed of 11 lines in three stanzas with a

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crickets in the grass beside the still, quiet lake - a fish jumps Andromeda Jazmon

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only his reflection wavers in the evening light; great blue heron -Andromeda Jazmon clouds over the lake leave pools of blue sky beside beach stones -Andromeda Jazmon runners by the lake breath in the stillness; rushing past nameless flowers -Andromeda Jazmon Friday Poetry is hosted by Kelly at Crossover. Enjoy your weekend!

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A Digital Citizenship Handbook for Parents by Mike Ribble. HomePage Books, 2009. I am reading this book to prepare for the coming school year, where we will be focusing on Digital Citizenship for the entire year. Each month we are going to focus on another aspect of this complex subject in teacher, student and parent education. Ribble's book is an excellent introduction to the basic concepts.

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It's that time of year when everyone is getting ready for a new school year. The excitement is running high around our home; new backpacks, new pencils, new school clothes. I love this time of year! Miss Rumphius asked us to write school poems for the Monday Poetry Stretch. Be sure to click that link and check out all the great poems she's collected! I wrote this one thinking about my son

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Haiku and photos from our day at the park:hazy heattrapped between creekside treesand their reflection -Andromeda Jazmonstepping rock to rockacross cool rushing water;leaping the gaps -Andromeda JazmonMy oldest friend from childhood was in town this week. We spent some time hiking in a local state park. While the little boys threw rocks and gathered sticks we caught up

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planting pinkspurple salvia, cat mint -resting in lilies-Andromeda JazmonI've been working in the garden a lot this past month. Usually by July I've given up on it and retreated to the cool of air conditioning, but this year it's been so cool and rainy I am still in planting mode. I keep trimming things back and adding new plants. It's a relief sometimes I sit back and rest my gaze on the old

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By Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Philippe Lardy. Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2005. (Library copy.) Ms Nelson had created an amazing tribute to Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy who was lynched in 1955. His murderers were identified but acquitted. His heartbroken mother held an open casket funeral, drawing the attention of the whole world to his brutal torture and murder, and sparking the

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I saw this meme on A Year of Reading. Franki says she learns a lot from her Tweeple and I agree. I get new ideas and links to great resources every day. In the last couple weeks or so almost all my computer time has been swallowed up in trying to finish grad school assignments for my YA Lit course. This week I will finish the book list of YA novels I've read for the class (listed on GoodReads and

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watching them play ball;a game requiring the skillsof hold and release- Andromeda JazmonWhen I'm not blogging these days I'm playing the piano, working in the garden, playing with my sons, or working on reading & writing for grad school. Hoping to find time today to enjoy the poetry round up at A Year of Reading. Join me there?

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sirens in traffic;that rooster crowing, crowing -my garden quiet-Andromeda Jazmon

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it slips awayjust when you catch the stream;summer free time-Andromeda JazmonOnce we pass the 4th of July summer starts to really race by. I try to force myself to slow down, relax, enjoy the lazy moments, all the while thinking I don't have enough time to do all I planned. I need more time to sit by this stream and daydream...

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I am taking a grad course in YA Lit for library school this month. We have to read 24 YA novels chosen from the ones referenced in the textbook: Nilsen, Alleen Pace and Kenneth L. Donelson. Literature for Today’s Young Adults. 8th ed. New York: Longman, 2009. We also have to read another textbook, several articles, write a couple papers, compile a YA library with a $3000 budget, and do a "

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picking raspberries,trying to decide: sorbetor raspberry jam?- Andromeda JazmonI'm telling you there is nothing sweeter and more delicious than homemade raspberry jam on fresh baked bread. Unless it's ice cold homemade raspberry sorbet...We like our raspberry sorbet with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.It's something to contemplate while you are out in the hot sun, fighting prickers, avoiding

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A Resource list for English Literature students. One of the assignments I had this month for my collection development course in library science grad school was to compile a list of Internet resources for students. I chose to look for literature websites, databases, and sites, since that is one of my chief interests. I wanted to share what I found here on the blog, since I was really quite amazed

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Blessed are the Broken-HeartedAnotherbeatitudecalled out;discoveredeven, throughfaith.Giveheed.Ijustknow it islove thatmoves us.Notonlypuzzles us,quiteradicallysaves us.Trulyunruly,verily, reliably,whilex-ing the street -you arezapped!- Andromeda JazmonThe Monday Poetry Stretch this week at Miss Rumphius Effect was to write an abecedarian poem. I've enjjoyed this form ever since I read Robert

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by Patricia McCormick. Hyperion, 2006. Library copy. Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl living with her family in a mountain village in Nepal, is spunky and full of hopeful expectation. Her step-father is a gambler who spends what little money she and her mother can scrap together sewing and growing cucumbers, but still Lakshmi thinks she can turn things around and get the family hut a new tin roof if

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by Laurie Halse Anderson. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2008. Isabel is a twelve year old African American girl in slavery in Rhode Island in 1776. When her mistress dies she expects to be freed, since it is in her mistress's will. Unfortunately the heir is a man who wants to sell her and her little sister, 5 year old Ruth, in auction. He has no patience for her claims and the lawyer

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lunch on the porchlistening to boys chatter;roses on the fence- Andromeda Jazmon

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My final report for the 4th annual Mother Reader 49 Hour Reading Challenge: I started at 4 pm on Friday and finished at 4 pm Sunday. I put in a total of 16 hours in reading and blogging about the books, with another 2.5 hours commenting on other bloggers doing the challenge. Total time: 18.5 hours and 4.5 books (the first book I read I was already halfway through when I started.)I am not

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by Kashimira Sheth. Hyperion, 2007. Leela is a twelve year old girl living with her family in Gujarat, India in 1918. She was engaged at the age of two and married at nine, but hasn't moved to her husband's family household yet. She is a person of the high Brahman caste, so she is pampered and endulged by her parents with pretty clothes, sweets, and jewlery.She lives a happy life and is generally

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by Lauren Tarshis. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2007. I didn't enjoy this one as much as the others I've read so far this weekend. Emma Jean has a very intelligent, logical mind but she doesn't understand the other 13 year olds in her middle school. She usually leaves them a wide berth, preferring her own routines and interests, until she finds a nice girl named Colleen crying in the girl's room

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