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Category: English Language Arts 英語の国語

Tea Party
Life Musings 哲学 / Poetry 詩
  • 2020-03-28
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  • 23 min
  • 3 years
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Tagged Butterfly Pea, Butterfly Pea Tea, corona, covid-19, depression

Tea Party

This poem was written during my high school days when I was in my third depression, and when I found what an incredible healing tool writing could be.

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Double Meaning Wacks & Smacks
English Language Arts 英語の国語
  • 2020-03-03
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  • 8 min
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Tagged English Language, gardening, lexical ambiguity, Linguistics, pineapples

Double Meaning Wacks & Smacks

“How did you hurt your face?” Asked my concerned coworker. “I hit my car,” was my matter-of-fact reply. Their looks of consternation […]

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Classroom Conversations
English Language Arts 英語の国語
  • 2020-02-20
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Tagged Classroom Conversations, funny, humor, Middle School, middle school humor

Classroom Conversations

I keep a list of some of the humorous, if not ridiculous, verbal combinations that have come out of the mouths of students, myself, and colleagues while teaching middle school.

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CaucAsian
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-13
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  • 2 min
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Tagged Amerasian, Biracial, CaucAsian, Motherhood, poetry

CaucAsian

Sometimes you are American. Sometimes you are Japanese. Sometimes you are somewhere in between. And whether you are yellow, white, or a […]

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The McDonald’s House
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-11
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  • 1 min
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Tagged being grateful, being thankful, Haiku, Macdonald, poetry

The McDonald’s House

A haiku about my unconventionally colored home.

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Homophone Horrors
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-09
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  • 2 min
  • 3 years
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Tagged Butterfly Pea, gardening, herbs, homophones, misunderstanding

Homophone Horrors

One of my favorite drinks is butterfly pea, not pee-pee pee, but pea-plant pea! I don’t drink butterfly urine!

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Into Something
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-08
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Tagged ELA, English Language Arts, Haiku, poetry

Into Something

Action makes the future and potential real.

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Itadakimasu いただきます
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-08
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Tagged America, Diversity, Haiku, identity, poetry

Itadakimasu いただきます

An haiku about America’s cultural combinations.

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My Son Who
Poetry 詩
  • 2020-02-08
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Tagged free verse, my son, poetry, Sandra Cineros

My Son Who

This poem is inspired and modeled after the poem Abuelito Who by Sandra Cineros.

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I'm Kendra Migita, a wife, mom, teacher, and military brat turned expat in Okinawa, Japan. I write about the joys and challenges of straddling the American and Japanese worlds.

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  自業自得 Translation: “One’s act, one’s profit” Interpretation: You reap what you sow.  

A living vs. a life
The process can be a beautiful product.
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