Another much loved poem is Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Marlowe lived from 1564-1593.
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
There I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
Of course, Raleigh wrote a famous reply to this, a calumny on shepherds everywhere!
IF all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy Love.
He must have been having a really bad day.
Yes, the rogue! We shepherds were NOT pleased!!!
lol, so true. So very true…
Beautiful. Hope they never put this one to the “close read.” Happy Valentine’s Day! Safe travels.
Diane,
You are a treasure.
yes
For those in love with the wonders of life and being alive, last part of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s I AM WAITING (A Coney Island of the Mind):
I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
😎
You’ve probably all been wondering how to go about implementing the new Common Core State Standards so that you can do your part
to make your students College and Career Ready and
to reverse the utter failure of the U.S. public schools to produce any positive outcomes ever.
Well, here’s a simple process that you can begin implementing today.
Give all your students lessons on test-taking strategies.
In fact, replace all instruction with those. And play and recess and art and music of course.
Then test your students on the test-taking strategies.
But don’t stop with such luke-warm implementation. Kick it up.
Give your students lessons on taking tests on test-taking strategies.
Then give them tests on lessons on taking tests on test-taking strategies.
And give them lessons on taking tests on lessons on taking tests on test-taking strategies.
Hope you’ve got the picture now.
See how simple and productive this is???!!!
You’re welcome.
Clearly, the approach under NCLB wasn’t RIGOROUS enough. It didn’t have nearly enough emphasis on summative high-stakes bubble testing based on bullet lists of standards. And the penalties weren’t severe enough, and “teachers” didn’t explore in sufficient detail the metacogntive skills college-and-career-ready students really need because they barely touched on metacognition about metacognition. And, worse yet, none of those tests were taken on computers running the world’s greatest operating system!
The simple approach outlined above will be, as Arne Duncan says, “a game changer.” We’ve paid him well to say that.
All hail the data gods, and good luck. You’re going to need it when this all hits the fan (uh, reaches its full implementation).
This guide to aligning your instructional program to the Common Core is brought to you by the Common Core Curriculum Commissariat and Ministry of Truth (C^4 MiniTru), formerly, the free and independent public school system of the United States. U.S. K-12 education, now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.