"The Listeners" Walter de la Mare

While poetry is not my favorite genre, I love this poem.  It has an eerie, mysterious feel - and I'm left wondering where the owners of the house went.  With the numerous vampire and other supernatural stories around, I feel this poem fits the mood of many current stories.

"The Listeners"

Poetry Blogging

For our upcoming poetry units, I am going to encourage students to create blogs to share their poetry.  Websites, such as Poetry Foundation and Poetry Out Loud, are prompting me to digitally connect students and poetry.  Poetry is often quite hard for middle school students - and some simply state it is boring.  Therefore, to inspire enjoyment, participation, and learning, I'll use technology to hopefully gain interest, and dare I say.... excitement?

Starting Up Again

It has been ages since I updated my blog.  But - that's all about to change.  I'm going to blog about our current school year, and hopefully come up with some ideas for helping students create blogs.  I think student blogs would be a great way to practice various types of writing.  This blog is being re-vamped, and my focus has returned (I think?).