Where I’m From
I am from a family of bears teaching life lessons.
From a lost man in red, while wearing his glasses.
I am from 7 little men singing hi ho; a beautiful
princess that lost her glass slipper to a monstrous beast who
learned to love. From a grumpy green monster who lived in a garbage can.
I am from patient teachers who taught Shakespear better
than cliff notes. I am from plays of Hamlet and Macbeth.
From Macleans university magazines to help determine my future to
Thunder Bay’s classes of literature for children and women.
I am from rewriting a letter to a young lady on her wedding day.
I am from curriculum documents to differentiate instructions.
To home decor magazines to low light plants for a balcony.
From rigor, reflexive qualitative and quantitative research.
From the streets of Harlem to a pawn shop with nothing to buy.
I am from wanting to see the world through others eyes.
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I can relate to your journey through Shakespeare’s world. If I had to study it now, I would appreciate it more than when I was studying it in high school. It is strange how these “weird” readings help to mould our character. As I write this, I am recalling Fin’s book, where it also shows how it is not only what children read but also the strategies that are used to teach reading that goes a long way to assist in students’ literacy development.
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I can relate to your journey of literature from the way you have set up your poem. You have clearly shared your adolscent journey of literature which is quite reminicent of my own. The Bearenstein Bears and many Disney Classics. Moving into highschool and university with Shakespeare. I as well had teachers that loved and were able to share their explaination of Shakespeare that have continue to resonate with me today. And now into the field of curriculum documents and living magazines.
ReplyDeleteI would say you have had a life rich with literature that has extended from yourself as a young child until today with the promise of looking forward to future literary experiences.
Your journey through life sure seems to have been enriched by literacy! Your poem allowed me to recall all of the wonderful stories available to us and how I would often feel as a child reading or listening to such books. As I read your poem, I could envision the changes in your life cycle as you grew from a young child to a teenager, to an adolescent, to a young adult etc... and how literacy has always been apart of your life journey. As you grew, so did the complexities of your readings and the reasons for which you read. It seems that the meanings and reasons for your literacy experiences has changed throughout the years, as has mine; and your literacy journey continues.
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