Inspiration

ABOVE: Yotzer Or artwork from the 1st grade's milestone. OPPOSITE TOP: Yotzer Or artwork from the 1st grade's milestone. OPPOSITE BOTTOM: 8th grade T'fillah elective upcycled hubcaps

ABOVE: 6th graders created works of art using patterns to draw their trees, avoiding repetition, and thinking about spring for their backgrounds.

INSPIRATION

הארשה

We at JCDS lovingly remember our dear friend and poet, Lillian R. Freedman, z’’l, who passed away this May at the age of 98. She wrote her first poem on a flight to a wedding ceremony in 1978. Several times over the years, Lillian joyfully shared her works with lower school classes and Joanne’s Middle School English students.

Inspiration

Lillian R. Freedman, z’’l 1923-2021

A dream arises from the soul Fulfillment of one’s innermost thoughts What else can make one whole? A breeze, a wisp of air. A kiss, a touch, a clasp of hands? A realization of all that binds And brings the love that grips the mind.

A Pedagogue’s Sonnet

Joanne Baker, 7th & 8th Grade English Teacher; Rosh 8th Grade

Sonnet, oh sonnet, implore thee hereof, To I who adore the challenge of rhyme, Assist my students express what they love, In lexical style of Renaissance time. Carefully choose they, each word on the page, Fourteen lines total, each syllables, ten, Lyric poem woven to reader engage, To pass forth a tale the writer’s sole yen. Being poetic of tongue, dip their pens Behind a keyboard, today’s fountain quill Conjuring verses, a new ancient ken Excite these neophyte wordsmiths, fulfill, Hunger for passion, command they employ~ Scribe with abandon and edit with joy!