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		<title>Possible Topics for &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; offers many possible topics to write a paragraph about.
By Friday my seniors will have to annotate Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; as well as write an insightful paragraph about it. Writing about poetry is not easy for them, so to get them ready, to sort of grease the wheels, we did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Term Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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What my whiteboard looks like after we get done discussing possilbe meanings of the title of Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break.&#8221;
In my class the whiteboard is becoming more an essential tool for thought, helping us to capture what we think and challenging us to explain why we think it. For example, today my seniors read &#8220;Mid-Term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the week: The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Keatsian image of the thrush produces one of Hardy&#8217;s most lyrical poems
[[Thomas Hardy]] and his thrush belongs to the Romantic tradition, in which birds express emotion in &#8220;songs&#8221; that inform human lives. Hardy was close enough to the 19th century to be able to present the bird as a symbol of hope for the [...]]]></description>
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