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8/15/2011

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See comments for today's poem, "What Do We Do with a Variation?" and discussion questions assignment.  Don't forget to finish your Identity Chart if you didn't already turn it in.  

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Ms. S
8/15/2011 11:17:44 am

FHAO #3 “What Do We Do with a Variation?” (Variation Poem)

James Berry raises important questions about the ways we respond to differences in a poem entitled “What Do We Do with a Variation?”

What do we do with a difference?
Do we stand and discuss its oddity
or do we ignore it?

Do we shut our eyes to it
or poke it with a stick?
Do we clobber it to death?

Do we move around it in rage
and enlist the rage of others?
Do we will it to go away?

Do we look at it in awe
Or purely in wonderment?
Do we work for it to disappear?

Do we pass it stealthily
or change route away from it?
Do we will it to become like ourselves?

What do we do with a difference?
Do we communicate to it,
let application acknowledge it
for barriers to fall down?

As before, you are to write answers to the * questions; just think about and orally discuss the others. Use the same paper as you did for FHAO #1 and #2.

*1. What is the message of Berry’s poem?

2. Imagine a poem that described how we are alike.
What might the message of such a poem be?

3. How do people learn which differences matter and which do not?
4. How does the title of Jesus Colon’s essay, “Little Things are Big” relate
to the question Berry asks in his poem? How would you answer Berry’s
question?

*5. How does the message in the poem relate to history, society, or current events? Explain in a paragraph using at least two examples. Due tomorrow.

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