due Friday 9/10

1. Attempt to locate your potential partner for the From Another Country project and do your bes to make them see that this is a project they want to be a part of.

Talking points:

It will be fun.

It will help the school be a more complete community because it will help people from different countries get to know each other.

It will take two to five hours all told, but these hours will be broken up according to your mutual convenience.

It will involve a very short video, an interview, and a small writing project.

2. Do two more poems:

Song for the Sun Disappeared Behind the Rainclouds

The fire darkens, the world turns black.

The flame extinguishes, misfortune upon us.

God sets out in search of the sun.

The rainbow sparkles in his hand,

The bow of the divine hunter.

He has heard the lamentations of his children.

He walks along the milky way, he collects the stars.

With quick arms he piles them into a basket

Piles them up with quick arms

Like a woman who collects lizards

And piles them into her pot, piles them

Until the pot overflows with lizards

Until the basket overflows with light.

Hottentot people (South Africa)

Spring, the Sweet Spring

Spring, the sweet spring is the year’s pleasant king;

Then blooms each thing, then maids do dance in a ring

Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The palm and may make country houses gay,

Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,

And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,

Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit,

In every street these tunes our ears do greet:

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

Thomas Nashe, English, 16^th Century