It's National Poem-in-your-Pocket Day, and as every year, I asked my students to choose a poem and carry it for the day. We celebrate the occasion in class also, and all students who are willing and able may share their chosen poems (for a lollipop, of course!).
This year someone read Where I Was by Dan Brown.
"Do you know what that's about?" I asked.
"I think it's about a field trip," he answered.
"Yes, but it is also about when President Kennedy was shot."
"What?????" another boy shouted from across the room. "President Kennedy was shot????? Did he die????"
I frowned and looked at the second student, trying to tell if he was serious. The other kids around him shushed him, and explained that yes, the president had died of his wounds.
"Anyway," I continued, "that was such a huge event for the people who were alive then, that many years later they remembered clearly where they were when they heard the news, and that's what the title of the poem means."
Later I was telling my friend Mary about it. "Just think," she laughed, "that kid will always remember that he was in your class, in 2015, when he heard that Kennedy was shot."
This year someone read Where I Was by Dan Brown.
"Do you know what that's about?" I asked.
"I think it's about a field trip," he answered.
"Yes, but it is also about when President Kennedy was shot."
"What?????" another boy shouted from across the room. "President Kennedy was shot????? Did he die????"
I frowned and looked at the second student, trying to tell if he was serious. The other kids around him shushed him, and explained that yes, the president had died of his wounds.
"Anyway," I continued, "that was such a huge event for the people who were alive then, that many years later they remembered clearly where they were when they heard the news, and that's what the title of the poem means."
Later I was telling my friend Mary about it. "Just think," she laughed, "that kid will always remember that he was in your class, in 2015, when he heard that Kennedy was shot."
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