¡Saludos!
My goal is to share our journey.
I'm a high school teacher building resources for literacy.
I write this on the last day of my 20th year of teaching. My classroom has been filled with thousands of students. We've shared quite a lot, but as I enter the next stage of my teaching career, I recognize that sharing my journey may be a new positive. My first classroom was in a middle school in Los Angeles. Since then, I've had the same classroom in eastern LA county. Sixteen years in the same classroom!
Currently, I have a few Spanish language classroom resources to share.
Here's a poem we used to read when I taught junior English:
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds,It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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