Odds and Ends

These are are few images and poems that I either have used or would like to use in my classes.

I think I could use this with my Senior Environmental Science course:

There are two poems that I have used to start units: the following Tree poem was at the start of a Deciduous Forest study: 

Let the trees be consulted


before you take any action


every time you breathe in


thank a tree


let tree roots crack parking lot

s
at the world bank headquarters


let loggers be druids


specially trained and rewarded


to sacrifice trees at auspicious times


let carpenters be master artisans


let lumber be treasured like gold


let chainsaws be played like saxophones


let soldiers on maneuvers plant trees


give police and criminals


a shovel and a thousand seedlings


let businessmen carry pocketfuls of acorns


let newlyweds honeymoon in the woods


walk don't drive


stop reading newspapers


stop writing poetry


squat under a tree and tell stories..

- John Wright

I would like to use this one by e. e. cummings in an Ocean ecology unit:

maggie and milly and molly and may


went down to the beach (to play one day)


and maggie discovered a shell that sang


so sweetly she couldnt remember her troubles, and


milly befriended a stranded star


whose rays five languid fingers were;


and molly was chased by a horrible thing


which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and


may came home with a smooth round stone


as small as a world and as large as alone.


for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)


its always ourselves we find in the sea.

- e. e. Cummings

I wonder if I or my students could make this: