A lesson Margaret Chapman used at Burroughs:
They read two DH Lawrence poems, "The White Horse," and "Nothing to Save." They spoke about images of extremese and of non-visual sensation--the horse and the boy being an image of silence, and the eye of the violet being an image of smallness and stillness. They students were asked to think of the quietest place they could think of, and then to try to describe it as much as possible, including what it sounded like. Then they were asked to think of the smallest thing they could think of and then to write what could be inside it. Here are a few examples:
I was in the cloudes
I saw my fried
I was happy to see her
She had a box
in the box was a seed
in the seed was a plant. Nancy G., 3rd grade
I walk out by myself and saw invisible
things. And I imagine that was not
true but it was.
I know smallest things are
true there are a lot of them,
Like a seed and it has something in it
it has a wiggly thing. Veronica M., 3rd grade
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