Today [19 June] is national reading day in India. Let me celebrate it with three posters I prepared with the help of Canva.
With students of Carmel Margaret, are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving…? It was one of my first days in the eleventh class of Carmel Public School in Kerala, the last school of my teaching career. One girl, whose name was not Margaret, was in the class looking extremely melancholy. I had noticed her for a few days. I didn’t know how to put the matter over to her. I had already told the students that a smiling face was a rule in the English class. Since Margaret didn’t comply, I chose to drag Hopkins in. I replaced the name of Margaret with the girl’s actual name, however, when I quoted the lines. Margaret is a little girl in the Hopkins poem. Looking at autumn’s falling leaves, Margaret is saddened by the fact of life’s inevitable degeneration. The leaves have to turn yellow and eventually fall. And decay. The poet tells her that she has no choice but accept certain inevitabilities of life. Sorrow is our legacy, Margaret , I said to Margaret’s alter ego in my class. Let
Beautiful creations Sir !
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DeleteAwesome Sir! 👌🏻
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DeleteBeautiful! I have to learn to use Canva.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to learn.
DeleteReading is indeed the gateway to knowledge and wisdom.
ReplyDeleteIn this age of internet, we all are reading much more than during the pre-internet days. All those messages and emails and forwards.
However, it's important for all of us to pause and think if what we are reading is worthwhile or not.
I for one have stopped reading / watching / listening to forwards on WhatsApp.
That's just it. What we read matters.
DeleteI can hardly imagine anything more commendable than a National Reading Day. It should become a World Reading Day.
ReplyDeleteThat'd be a good idea.
DeleteCanva is a God Sent! Great posters!
ReplyDeleteYes, I use Canva for various purposes.
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