It is nearing the end of our fourth project of the school year, and as the students get involved in the daily doings of their project, I am left sitting wondering, What am I supposed to do now? It is actually a very beautiful in-between feeling, and I didn't know how to recognize it until my second year of teaching.
This moment when I feel that all there is to do is twiddle my thumbs is the moment when I have a beautiful opportunity to look ahead to what's coming next.
After Lisa showed me this gorgeous Ted Talk by Sarah Kay, and after the gloriousness of sharing creative writing with my students during the past week, I realized that I wanted to pursue a spoken word poetry project.
So I started gathering my resources, and in so doing, found these delightful and almost completely unrelated musical experiments. The first is called In B Flat, and you really have to experience it to understand. It began as an experiment by Darren Solomon, composer and music producer, and many other people contributed to it, besides.
That, and the related experiment Marker/Music were the best tangential finds of my project planning for the day.
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