I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
Inspired by one of my young students, this poem is especially for children who prefer visual art expression to reading and writing TIGER BASKETBALL I see the lines I see the color They are bold And they are bright I see a tiger in the basketball I see a panther in the night I love to paint I love to draw It doesn’t matter If “was” is.. Read More
Two seventh-grade boys with baseball caps on are seriously engaged in Chinese brush painting in their Language Arts class. Their caps are well worn, fit snugly on their heads, and the bills are curved just right. The students are not speaking but are examining their pictures with heads bent while adding more brush strokes of black paint on the white paper. Their faces are relaxed and other paintings are lying around—previous attempts using.. Read More