What we learned in school, Joel Caserta/Jamal Ali

What we learned in school
-By Joel Caserta and Jamal Ali

What we learned in school: apparently, violets are blue.
What we learned in school: the sun was in our faces when taking pictures.
What we learned in school: that Delaware is smaller than a High School.
What we learned in school: teachers would bribe us with stickers.

What we learned in school: Time flies, when you’re having fun.
What we learned in school: Time doesn’t fly when you’re bored.
What we learned in school: That day we took pictures how bright was the sun?
What we learned in school: We sucked at music, we couldn’t hold a cord.

What we learned in school: I just bought a Honda Accord.
I hate it. I should have bought a Ford.

WOMAN AT THE WALL

Safia muse
English 109
Nov,23,2010
Mr. mike.
Woman at the wall.And the poem is she prays. That tonight while she is sleeping God will put all the names into Jar. And pull the one name out, that in the morning when she awakens she will find the name. Sleeping again into bed, that she won’t know any different. This poem I’m so interesting because her language easies to understanding how she wrote. Her poem talks about what she wants to wish to see at night. However, I like so much this poem because a pray it is important things people doing who has religious. She prays night so that show to me. She is religious.
I believe who pray at midnight God give what they want every things because my religious said that. And also everybody who has religious knows that. Religious it is important things treatment. I learn to pray midnight, warship God that was good thing because I know God has a powerful can give me the thing I need.

Introduction to Poetry

Its a Poem that has a deep meaning, that an individual who usually reads between the lines will quickly realize the true meaning of this poem.

For instance the lines;
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide;
this simply means to take a closer look, beyond the written words and understand the actual words within before reaching a incomplete conclusion.


Also the line where it says, But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession ou of it. this again is another hint, that shows humans in general want to cross the finish line before getting to the starting line and again it emphasizes on patience in order to reach the true goal of any challenge we may face in life.

what they learn in school

what they learn inschool was my favorite poem. I realy agree what the auther Jerome stern wrote. and i like this part but they don't want them to have books that confront them with real ideas because that will by confuse thier values. i really agree that part becuase that is when i was young I wasn't like things like that and if I get idea from big books not my level I use to confused some times some real stores are very scared and kids head can not hold and understand

Boy, Waiting for a school bus

"A dozen ghosts are whining in the grove. Ditch and stubble fields, tar that never ends;a frozen dawn, a scattering of snow." This poem reminds me of when I had to ride the bus to school. i had to walk down a long driveway in the freezing weather and also having the snow blowing across the fields making it hard for me to see and breath.

What The Learn in School

"What They Learn in School" was one of the poems that I liked the most. The main purpose of this poem is to give all the kids the right message that many might have not gotten. The author clearly states what is right and what is wrong for the kids. By all the messages the author gives in the poem tells the readers how much he cares for the kids and how much success he wants kids to get in their future.

I loved this poem mainly because of the messages he wanted to get across by his lines in the poem.

And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to challenge, not to imagine, but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as children to their bosoms as the second millennium lunches towards its panicky close.

This is one of my favorite lines from the poem because it teaches the children a life lesson. Not to question the elders is a life-lesson for the kids. This stanza shows that he wants children to have the best future.

I,Too, Sing America...

"I, Too, Sing America." Is about slavery and how African americans were treated back in 1920s. This poem reminds me of my history class in middle school and how they would teach us abt Martin Luther King, Jr., his dream, and why we celebrate mlk day. My favorite line in the poem is " Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when the company comes. Nobody'll dare say to me, Eat in the kitchen."