The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Ezra Pound A troublesome figure in the Arts to be sure, but what I carry away from Ezra Pound is the same thing I learn from chess. Rigor. Repetition. Condensing things down toContinue reading “Pounding In The New Year”
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Queen’s Gambit
Yes, like everyone else I saw Queen’s Gambit. Twice. Then read the book. Then watched a few videos of game walk-thrus. Then broke my boards back out. (played a lot in high school, studied it some after first full time job in the early 90’s before computer gaming was a big thing. The scene thatContinue reading “Queen’s Gambit”
Current Event Form Lesson
A video explaining the Current event form for Providence Montessori Middle School
Bernard Deville
Hmmmm. Grumpy. Stained coffee mugs. Desk piled high with books & scribblings. Welcome to my personal Post-Pomo armageddon, where Oscar the Grouch and Oscar Wilde are perfectly happy sharing the shotgun seat of Adam West’s under-cranked Batmobile in the demolition derby of my imagination. More to come.
Test Lesson Link
The Short Story:
Summer Reading:
Are you a Island of the Blue Dolphins or a Pearl? Ask yourself what lessons should I carry away from these two novels- about self-reliance in troubled times, about the reliability of others, and about what might be meaningful in life? “Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.” ― John Steinbeck, The Pearl
This is a beginning. A pandemic pushed exploration of educational mediums that involve cross-sections between composition, rhetoric, literature, humanities and science. What will follow are recorded assignments for my middle-school students, along with other sundries.
Cranky Old Poet's Domain 