Where I’m from

Förmåga: lyssna, samtala, skriva

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  • Vi kommer att lyssna på dikten Where I’m from av George Ella Leon. Dikten hittar ni nedan eller här.
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I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I’m from fudge and eyeglasses,
from Imogene and Alafair.
I’m from the know-it-alls
and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I’m from He restoreth my soul
with a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself.

I’m from Artemus and Billie’s Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments–
snapped before I budded —
leaf-fall from the family tree.

Författare: annikasjodahl

My name is Annika and I am a Swedish and English teacher at Gröna Dalenskolan in Bålsta, Sweden. I teach year 7-9 with 13 to 15-year-old pupils. My former school participated in the largest KA2 project in Sweden where we were seven schools from six countries called "Die Kinder von Europia: Schule, Arbeit und Leben in 100 Jahren" coordinated by my former colleague Emelie Hahn, who 2016 won the European Language Label for that project. In my gallery have some pictures from a trip. I also give lectures in Sweden about my ICT work and my international work and have also been to Riga within Erasmus+ giving lectures in English. I have one of the larges blogs in Sweden where I write about teaching methods etc.

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