Unless #SOL2022

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I’ve been struggling with my committment to write each week, so I wrote with my students today using sentence stems of subordinating conjunctions. Unless I begin…

Unless I reconsider the tug,

that habitual retreat

to isolation,

I will no more

than sleep walk

as I now move.

Although what I carry

cannot be named

safely, I must resist

the descent

to nightmares, ghoulish fascinations

of anxious wonderings,

projections.

If only I will, with hope,

hold subordination,

gently,

until I am unless.

Published by Melanie White

I am a retired English and Media Studies teacher, and former Department Head of Fine Arts at Nepean High School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I am concerned with equity and antiracist practices while recognizing that I am speaking from a position of privilege and continuing to learn.

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  2. I’m struggling too, and hoping to do some fun writing this month while on a university break. I sat with my students to teach them how to use the “roll a story” prompts and it was fun! This really is such an important practice for teachers who are writers!

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