Objective: Students will understand the simple structure of a sentence by writing four kinds of sentences using the completed Venn diagrams from Activity One as prompts: affirmative and negative sentences, and Yes/No and Explanation questions. Students will write Explanation questions of their own, ask them … Read More →
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Sonnet 143: Goldfinch balanced on the sunflower’s head
Goldfinch balanced on the sunflower’s head Flies off swaying the plant just like the wind. The sun comes up the trees and lies down in The field where a red hawk begins to spread Its great slow wings breaking from the branch. Cloud Like Magritte’s … Read More →
ESL Lesson: The Rabbit and the Turtle: Activity One: Similarities and Differences
Introduction: Because a fable like the Rabbit and the Turtle deals with essential human truths everyone understands, it’s a good place for ESL students to start to work together. This lesson is geared toward High Beginners through Intermediates, but it can be ratcheted up or … Read More →
Sonnet 106: Today I picked Uncle Al’s tomatoes
Today I picked Uncle Al’s tomatoes For the last time. Many were over ripe Rotten, had cracked or fallen. I was tired But constant and making an effort to Exercise, bent holding my abdomen In reaching into the vines to find them Ready and easily … Read More →
Sonnet 104: Swallows gather on the electric wire
Swallows gather on the electric wire One after the other in a row. I Approach as some fly up and swarm the sky Hundreds of them sweeping out. I’m inspired Watching them burst and swoop and blend and flow Into the blue as far as … Read More →
Sonnet 35: A little spider on the written page
A little spider on the written page Looks up at me. I do not bother her Nor does she me where I have come to lay Myself down in sunshine, grass, grasshoppers Queen Anne’s Lace crowning my head and blue tufts Of wild anise. This … Read More →
Sonnet 105: I let down the umbrella on the dock
I let down the umbrella on the dock Enclosing the wasps inside who’ve summered Up in the ribs. I had to do it. Not Only is it sunset but September The summer is almost over and I Must go back to New York to work … Read More →