Pablo Neruda’s Birthday messages on July 12th.
From Talking Walls Discover Your World
Thousands of messages decorate the fence outside the home of Pablo Neruda, thanking him for his beautiful poems.At the age of ten Pablo wrote a poem so amazing that his father asked him who had really written him. Schoolmates made fun of the boy who said he was “hunting for poems.”
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Pablo Neruda’s Fence still stands at Isla Negra, Chile, long after the poet’s 1973 death. It was built to keep his dogs from chasing sheep, and has become a message board, a shrine. On July 12, his birthday, people visit and pin paper messages to the wooden slats of the fence, carve words of love into posts, scrawl lines in charcoal that will be washed away and replaced with new messages, new prayers. A friend of his wrote: “There is not a scrap of the wood not written on. They all address him as though he were alive. With pencils or nail-points, each and all of them find a particular way of saying Thank you.”
The Chickens Build A Wall
I have not shared this book yet with students, but I think it would be another great book to introduce the concept of walls.
Let me know what you think.
Dalai Lama Celebrates his 80th Birthday!
http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-dalai-lama-birthday-20150706-story.html
http://www.dalailamabirthday.net/
From Talking Walls Discover Your World
The Dalai Lama has lived and traveled in exile since he was twenty- three years old. The recipient of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama continues to speak about peaceful resistance and asks the world to respect Tibet’s traditions.
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Wall of Letters on Juliet’s House in Verona!
Thanks to Lewiston teachers and Upward Bound students for telling me about this wall. Since 2012 letters have been discouraged because Juliet’s House is a World Heritage Site.
http://www.italia.it/en/travel-ideas/unesco-world-heritage-sites/verona-a-city-for-lovers.html
1,000 Murals in St Louis!
Thank You to an Upward Bound student at UMF for telling me about this awesome mural project!
OMG..Do they say that in France?
I asked a group of 5th graders to look closely at the faces of the four boys in the Lascaux Cave illustration. Then I asked them to think about how the boys were feeling. I asked the students if they thought as the group they could compile a list of ten words. Surprised, wowed, scared, amazed were just a few and I added awed.
I then asked , “What do you think the boys could be saying?” and one boy said, “Maybe the boy with the hand over his mouth is saying OMG.” Then he burst out laughing and looked at his teacher who was smiling. Another student wondered if they said OMG in France!
Who’s That Lady?
I have been working on this project for several years and want to finish it by 2020 to honor the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. At first it was a book, then a film and now maybe some type of performance piece. Any ideas, let me know !
Enjoy my Pecha Kucha Presentation!
China fears loss of GREAT WALL..brick by brick
Family Literacy Night with Talking Walls!
I took six of the original Talking Walls illustrations to a literacy night in Augusta and told the stories about the decorated walls. I handed out a list of 30 items for the students and their families to find. The families had fun finding and talking about the items in each illustration. The little brothers and sisters created and talked about their own Talking Wall.
DISCOVER YOUR WORLD 