Words of Wisdom

It is one of those things parents and adults do so well:  offering words of wisdom.  What are the most memorable words of wisdow -- words that you try to live by -- that you have ever received? 

Now, review the first three chapters of To Kill A Mockingbird.  What words of wisdom have you found in those pages?  Are they still relevant today?

Due on or before 7 a.m. Sept. 20.

Metaphoric 'Mirror'

If you will excuse the pun, reflect for a moment on  "Mirror."  Who is the narrator?  What do you think the author is trying to teach us? I encourage you to enter into discussion with your classmates.  Do you agree or disagree with their analyses? Due on Monday, September 10, 7 a.m. 

 

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

By Sylvia Plath