Poems, Maxims and Extended Thoughts
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 102
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 102
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Good, sound reading, researching, and writing skills are essential if students are to successfully meet criteria for completion of academic degrees. Equally important is the development of strong voices for thinking aloud critically, posing and solving problems, and participating as engaged students in classroom discussions. Professors encounter multiple levels of preparation in composition courses, especially in this climate of technological advancements.
Students’ social lives are distanced from physical, face-to-face communication, enabling them to create personas and grow accustomed to brevity in communication (i.e., texting, Instagram®, Snapchat®) ready and able to choose new apps once created and disseminated. Educational institutions respond with enhanced smart classrooms and new and improved platforms for online courses. None of this poses problems for students with excellent support systems, students with the latest technology at their fingertips and skilled in switching from abbreviated language to formal, Standard English. These students will fair well. But some students cannot make the immediate leap and do not have the same background support systems and technology; the double-dutch jump into the fray is not easy, especially when they encounter educators lacking in the skills and tools to encourage reluctant readers and uncertain writers whose potential rests just beneath the surface of opportunity.
Poems, Maxims & Extended Thoughts is intended not only as a learning tool, purposefully seeking to remove layers of self-doubt, to challenge students to enter the academic world unafraid by providing reasons to read, write, express, respond, research and demonstrate movement from narrative to argument structures; it is also a cultural tool to make visible some of the problems faced by everyone, to reopen the door for discussion and communication.
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: THE POEMS
Messengers
Howling at the Moon
Use Me No More My Brothers
Yellow Leaves
Communication
Images
Mark
Writing
Older, But not Wiser
What Were You Saying?
Listening and Hearing (Making Connections)
DD The Bag Boy
Only If
Not Again!
Discipline Not Taken Lightly
So You’re Married . . . How About That?
The Best Kisses
Making Love Is Not a Fight
The Telegraphed Note
Blank Card
Promises
Torn Up
Sadness
I Never Thought That I
Lessons Learned
You Lied
Thank You!
Study Habits
If I Ever Cross Your Mind
Hello . . . ?
You Asked
When
I Love
Truths: I Can’t Come to Class Today
CHAPTER TWO: THE MAXIMS
Metaphor
Healing
If
Excuses
The Question
Phenomenology “. . . Getting Back to the Things Themselves” (Husserl)
Sitting Still Is Often the Best Course of Action
Outsourcing Contributes to Poverty and Hunger in America
Lost in Here
Where I Live
Searching
No Appreciation? So What?
For the Children
Maybe It’s the Wind
Sitting Across the Table
Sorry
Brothers
Cold Shoulder
A Loving Mother and Wife
Enlightenment
Mommy
Defiance
Wilderness
While You Slept
Grandmother
Daughter
Cutting Losses and Mourning
Time
To Live
The Hug
Pugs
Turtles
Apathy USA
Judas Kiss
Life
Insensitive
Generation X
Microaggressions
Resistance
When Students Tune Out
Movement
Feet
Aging
Headache
Observant and Focused (Recognizing Aggression)
The Widening of the Gap in Educational Achievement
Holding onto Hate
New Material
From Narrative to Formal Writing
Agenda
Stolen
Spirited Away
Coming from Another Place
Where Does Hate Come From?
Into the Night and Lost Forever (An Interior Monologue)
Just Get a Job
Idle Mind
Conflict in Consciousness
Was It Really Like That?
For You, Granddaughter
Cutting (For Casey)
“Ahhhhhhhhhh . . .”
The Kien Evolution
Mom, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother: Things I, We Did Not Say
CHAPTER THREE: EXTENDED THOUGHTS
Salamanders
People of Color
Finding a Sense of Purpose
Eucalyptus Leaves
Beneath It All
The Dead Cat
Exploring the Written Word
Marginality: Promotion of the Theory and Use of the Label