Now that you've
read the class assignment from Wednesday, 1/24 (
New York Times article by Tina Kelley and the two poems about "place" - "The Golden Years," Billy Collins and "A Sense of Place," Steven Curtis Lance) I'd like you to explore your understanding of them, your own notion of "place" and ways that you might characterize a place in your life. Please use this blog for a discussion around any or all of the following prompts. Remember that when it's going well, each of you will be using specific, detailed information to respond and react to other people's thinking and add in ideas and observations of your own. I'll be checking in periodically, but I'm expecting you to be on here at least once before Friday night, when you'll have another blog to work on.
i. What is meant by “the heartbeat of
here”?
ii. What are Collins and Lance, the
authors of the two poems saying about Westchester, where Collins lived, and N.
Cleveland St.?
iii. Think about either the area where you
live and/or Fox Lane High School and “characterize” it, briefly.
