Month: February From: Cassie Torres Book Title: Dear Evan Hansen Author(s): Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, & Justin Paul
"Have you ever told a lie? Not just a little white lie, a huge lie that consumes you to the point where it becomes your truth. No matter how much you want to break free from it there is no escaping without hurting so many others.
Dear Evan Hansen is about a lie. A lie that escalates to the point where Evan has no idea how to stop it. All of a sudden, Evan is not just another nobody; he was Connor Murphy’s best friend. Connor Murphy, who took his own life and did not have friend in the world, or so everyone thought.
The answers are in Evan’s hands. What made Connor take his life? Was it drugs? Why did no one know about this secret friendship between Evan and Connor? It becomes easy for Evan to fabricate this fake friendship and in a way you kind of root for him. He is not going along with this because he wants attention (well maybe a little), but because he wants to give Connor’s family some sort of solace during a difficult time.
I enjoyed this book because even though what Evan is doing is wrong, so much good comes from his lie. Not without destroying him first though. Sometimes we need to break down to rebuild and that is just what Evan does. "
Poetry in the Quad
is a diverse, encouraging, inspiring, supportive,
joyful outside event where we all come together to
CREATE as a vibrant community.
Students, Staff, & Faculty Invited!!
Picnic blankets & snack picnic. Your only concern is to CREATE! We provide notebooks, pens, and inspiration.
Just bring YOU!
FREE
Books
Succulents
Tree of Life charms
Stickers
Notebooks
Pens
Snacks
WHILE THEY LAST.
BEdA
See the history of Washington State through art. Explore the traditions and
shapes of Coast Salish Art.
(This artwork was the inspiration for the Seattle Seahawks Football Logo!)
Love plants? Share in some of the earliest art in Washington State inspired
by Latinx botanists. Take home your own Echeveria plant!
We will have LGBTQAI+ themed mad lib worksheets for students to be creative, have fun, and learn about the culture! This activity is more light-hearted and silly.
We will also have a display with a prompt for students to anonymously respond with their thoughts/feelings/ideas about gender identity. This is a collaborative writing piece for everyone to share in a deeper, thought-provoking activity.
We will also have a lot of poetry for students to just lay out and read if they wish! We strive to make this a safe space for all to come, relax, have fun, and just be who they are.
Jesse & Tyler
LIMERICKS
Fun. Silly. Lyrical.
Jennifer
M.E.Ch.A
iPoesía! M.E.Ch.A. students invite you to stop by the pyramid table to select and use words to express, learn, share, describe, and create your original poema
Moses Lake Museum & Art Center
Create Redacted Poetry!
Dollie
Tarot (and other cards) for Creative Writing
TAROT and other methods of finding prompts for writing.
Take a creative challenge! Learn how to create your own game of chance to spur creativity.
Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : The early modern “Fated Sky”.
"While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena" (Chiari, 2019).
Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? Rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century Africa.
"Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming." -- Project Muse
Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather.
"However, we are still far from fully understanding what and how causes this variability. Why does the Sun continue to go on, on a rhythmic scale, the so-called solar cycle, without damping? How to better understand the complicated relationships between the Sun, the heliosphere and the many proxies of long-term solar activity?" - From Publisher
A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost.
"In the end, there is the disastrous Democratic National Convention of 1968, the driving from office of Lyndon Johnson, and the election of Richard Nixon. Gaillard quotes historian Todd Gitlin in commenting on the rise of violence and disenchantment as the decade dragged on: 'Rage was becoming the common coin of American culture (Esposito, 2018).
Rain shadow.
"Your heart traps mine as summits catch storms. Call this to calm the rain shadow. What will remain?" From poem The Same Mountain Twice.
A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience.
"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters." Publisher
References
Baker, E. (2015). A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience. Oxford University Press.
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