Brilliant Poetry assignment - Amanda

Afterwards - Poem by Clark Ashton Smith

There is a silence in the world
Since we have said farewell;
And beauty with an alien speech
An alien tale would tell.

There is a silence in the world,
Which is not peace nor quiet:
Ever I seek to flee therefrom,
And walk the ways of riot.

But when I hear the music moan
In rooms of thronging laughter,
A tongueless demon drives me forth,
And silence follows after.

Dylan - Visions of Johanna - 1960's-Present American Poet/Singer and Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature for Poetry. END RHYME!

Lyrics

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

Announcement

NEW DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS: 

CUSD Is Having Another Distribution of Educational Materials

Distribution of Educational Resource Packets for Elementary and Middle School students of the Chester Upland School District

When:  Thursday, April 23, 2020

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Where:  Stetser and Chester High School - for Students Kindergarten - 6th Grade

            Toby Farms - for students Kindergarten - 8th Grade

** K - 8th Grade Resource Packets are only for students who do not have internet access and/or a computer device available to them**

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CUSD está teniendo otra distribución de materiales educativos

Distribución de paquetes de recursos educativos para estudiantes de escuelas primarias y medias del distrito escolar de Chester Upland

Cuándo: jueves 23 de abril de 2020

Hora: 10:00 a.m. a 12:30 p.m.

Dónde: Stetser y Chester High School - para estudiantes - Jardín de infancia - 6th 

Toby Farms - para estudiantes - Jardín de infancia - 8th

** K - Los paquetes de recursos de 8º grado son solo para estudiantes que no tienen acceso a Internet y / o un dispositivo informático disponible **

Student Favorite

April

Three spirits came to me
And drew me apart
To where the olive boughs
Lay stripped upon the ground:
Pale carnage beneath bright mist.

            by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
                  aka William Atheling, Jr.

Quarantine Classes!

Hello,

School is now back online. If you haven't already, please visit the Toby 6th Grade team teachers' websites from the CUSD website. On each teacher's website you will be able to click on what is known as a Zoom room. Zoom is a free program that you can download and use to conduct meetings, family, work, or even school. Students must check office hours for the teacher, click to join, and be there with us!

Each teacher has a Zoom room. We are also using Google classroom to continue with lessons and learning. Please make every attempt to have your child work with us online. There is a link for the Google classrooms.

PLEASE contact me with any questions, problems, concerns. I do have our Chester-Upland Writers Club up is still up and running also. Any writing the children do outside of the Google classroom assignments and be published. I am looking to publish stories called "Quarantine Stories". This is one of my assignments in Google Classroom.

Again, school has moved online. Start at the new teacher websites. Contact me if you experience problems and I'll be happy to help.

Best wishes to be well,

Mr. Weinmann

The LINK to my website:   https://www.chesteruplandsd.org/3/olc/306

Quarantine Poem

          Schools are closed. Businesses are locking their doors
earlier, and health experts are recommending families self-quarantine as the corona virus pandemic quickly spreads throughout the United States.

Now that all the schools are closed it's time to support each other and talk with child(ren) to keep a bond and protection. The world is broken and we have to start loving our kids and supporting them. Get to know who your child(ren) and be patient helping them with their class work and be safe.


                                                      by Sha'Nya
                                                         03/22/2020

Back to School

Hello there.

Tomorrow all teachers will conduct meetings inside our digital Zoom rooms. You may join the room by going to the teacher website, off the CUSD website. Click on the link.

The teachers' websites will provide you with the Zoom address link and also the Google classroom codes. You must log-on using your Google account. See the link on my page to view a YouTube video that will show you how to get into Google classroom.

Each teacher has a Zoom room and a Google classroom. It's new to us so we expect some hiccups. 

I hope everyone is healthy and ready to write.

Our first writing piece is entitled, "Quarantine Times".