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Basketball Poets:
In previous years
there were more girls in this group
but now it seems the boys
are in the majority.
I liked this sign over the gym door:
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“Maybe we’re here only to say: house, bridge, well, gate, jug, olive-tree, window--at most, pillar, tower--but to say them, remember, oh! to say them in a way that the things themselves never dreamed of so intensely.” --Rilke
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I love that sign too. Those kids have someone in their corner.
ReplyDeleteLove all those faces in all those hoodies...wish they did this at every single school in America!
ReplyDeleteI love the sign!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't reading and writing feel different for some learners if we framed it as "playing with words?" Love your basketball poets...