Poem and Quote Project Information
Our third poem and quote project will focus on the theme of puzzles and mysteries. Please find an appropriate quote about puzzles and mysterie from the book Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett.
A quote can be a line or a bit of dialogue from the story. Please email your quote to me so that it can be posted to this page. Your quote must be unique. No one else may use your quote.
Please write or find a poem about puzzles and mysteries. Please email your poem's title and author to me so that it can be posted to this page. Your poem must be unique. No one else may use your poem.
The deadline for the poem and quite information is January 23, 2012.
Follow this format for the poem email:
(Subject) Poem for Chasing Vermeer
(Message) First Name: Title of Poem by Author of Poem
Follow this format for the quote email:
(Subject) Quote for Chasing Vermeer
(Message) First Name: "Quote" Pg.# - Name of the character who said the quote.
Poems and Quotes presentations will take place throughout the week of January 30, 2012.
Our third poem and quote project will focus on the theme of puzzles and mysteries. Please find an appropriate quote about puzzles and mysterie from the book Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett.
A quote can be a line or a bit of dialogue from the story. Please email your quote to me so that it can be posted to this page. Your quote must be unique. No one else may use your quote.
Please write or find a poem about puzzles and mysteries. Please email your poem's title and author to me so that it can be posted to this page. Your poem must be unique. No one else may use your poem.
The deadline for the poem and quite information is January 23, 2012.
Follow this format for the poem email:
(Subject) Poem for Chasing Vermeer
(Message) First Name: Title of Poem by Author of Poem
Follow this format for the quote email:
(Subject) Quote for Chasing Vermeer
(Message) First Name: "Quote" Pg.# - Name of the character who said the quote.
Poems and Quotes presentations will take place throughout the week of January 30, 2012.
Quote Example (click to enlarge)
Poem Example (click to enlarge)
Rubric Scoresheet (click to enlarge)
Poem Guidelines:
For the poem section, students will choose a poem by a famous, established poet (excluding Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky) or they may write their own poem of approximately a page in length. Anonymous authors will not be accepted!
This poem must be written out or word processed, illustrated on an 8.5" X 11" piece of paper, mounted on a piece of construction paper (0.25" border), memorized, and the student must be ready to present it in class from memory. Students must have their names in the lower right hand corner of their poem.
A brief, three or four-sentence biography of the author must be included. Analysis of meaning and connections you have made with this poem must be written on the back and presented orally as well.
For the poem section, students will choose a poem by a famous, established poet (excluding Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky) or they may write their own poem of approximately a page in length. Anonymous authors will not be accepted!
This poem must be written out or word processed, illustrated on an 8.5" X 11" piece of paper, mounted on a piece of construction paper (0.25" border), memorized, and the student must be ready to present it in class from memory. Students must have their names in the lower right hand corner of their poem.
A brief, three or four-sentence biography of the author must be included. Analysis of meaning and connections you have made with this poem must be written on the back and presented orally as well.
Quote Guidelines:
The quote must come from the novelNumber the Stars It must be a quote about Family.
The quote must be on paper no larger than 8.5" x 5.5" (half a piece of unlined paper), neatly written out or word processed with the name of the character who said it or thought it, illustrated and mounted on construction paper with a border around the edges of the paper not to exceed 1/4 of an inch.
Students must have their names in the lower right hand corner of the paper, with a personal analysis of the meaning of the quote and how it connects to you, to other texts, and to the world written on the back.
The quote must come from the novelNumber the Stars It must be a quote about Family.
The quote must be on paper no larger than 8.5" x 5.5" (half a piece of unlined paper), neatly written out or word processed with the name of the character who said it or thought it, illustrated and mounted on construction paper with a border around the edges of the paper not to exceed 1/4 of an inch.
Students must have their names in the lower right hand corner of the paper, with a personal analysis of the meaning of the quote and how it connects to you, to other texts, and to the world written on the back.
Quotes for Chasing Vermeer: (updated: January 24, 2012, @ 3:12 PM )
1. Afra -" You know," Mrs. Hussey said finally," Picasso said that art is a lie but a lie that tells the truth."-Mrs. Hussey(originally said by Picasso); Page 36
2. Shreya: "They didn't know if the world was ready for it. And they still weren't entirely sure what had been real and what was not."; Page 254 - Narrator
3. Athena: "Well, there are many things about life, many experiences, that we don't have an explanation for, as Mr. Fort said. But what interests me is the idea that much of what we humans take to be a lie is true, and much of what we think is true is a lie." -Pg. 183, Mrs. Sharpe
4. Milly: It was one thing if you were using a handful of plastic pieces to find solutions to a puzzle; It was another if you felt like you'd fallen inside a puzzle and couldn't get out."- Page 98, by Calder
5. Amrin: "What about the letter she had picked up that day on Harper Avenue - had that been one of the original three? Was Mrs. Sharpe really a victim now? Was Ms. Hussey? Petra's thought's swirled in circles, refusing to make sense." Pg. 143 - Narrator
6. Yush: "Wide awake now, Petra thought of Charles Fort. Was he responsible for the woman's visit? Had he brought them together? Educated by surprises... Fort understood what Petra had often felt: There is much more to be uncovered about the world than most people think." Pg. 49 - Narrator
7. Jared: "Was this letter insane, or inspired? And was she just being gullible, thinking this person was really writing to her? Maybe hundred of these letters have gone out. Had her name been picked out from a phone book?" -Narrator; Page 4
8. Janhvi: "Sometimes he wished he'd never heard of Fort or Vermeer. Events that were
purely accidental were beginning to feel like they fit together, but not in a way
he understood or even knew how to think about." - Pg. 98, by Calder
9. Katherine: "Rereading each sentence in pieces, she began to get a grip on what Fort was saying: Depending on how you look at things, your world could change completely." page 45 - Petra
10. Anshul "Was this a joke? Who would go through the trouble of writing and sending such a letter? It was printed on expensive stationary, the kind you buy if you want to be impressive. Or pretentious." Page 1 Narrator.
11. Byron: "They both stared at the T in Calder's palm. T for twelve. There aren't twelve floors...hmm. I don't get it." Pg. 155 - Calder
12. Samantha: " Getting an unforgettable letter is a pretty tough thing to do unless you have something very real to say. It shouldn't be artificial. Perhaps I made a mistake." Pg. 27 - Ms. Hussey
13. Rachel: "Something the rest of us don't know about Petra? Something you'd like to tell the police? No more secrets, now. And hanging out in Calder's garden-really?" said by Denise on page 145
14. Madison: "A strange chair?" "Modern art with things hanging from it?" "Does th writer want to stay anonymous, or do you want to tell us what this is?" Ms. Hussey asked after several guesses had been made." by Ms. Hussey Pg. 61
15. Preston: " She imagined the cops standing over her body with the letter in their hand saying, 'Jeesh! She shoulda called us first thing. She coulda been alive today." by narrator on page 4
16. Ailynn: "But what interests me is that the idea that we humans take to be a lie to be true, and much of what we think is true is a lie." Page 183 by Mrs. Sharpe
17. Saahil: "Fake or not, the letter was intriguing.... A centuries-old-crime. What could this person be planning? And what about the spooky part? If you show this to the authorities, you will most certainly be placing your life in danger." -Pg. 4 - Narrator
18. Jake: MISSING
19. Cyrus: “ This book begins, like a set of pentominoes, with separate pieces. Eventually they will all come together. Don’t be fooled by ideas that seem, at first, to fit easily. Don’t be fooled by ideas that don’t seem to fit at all. Pentominoes, like people, can surprise you.” preview pg. – Narrator
20. Joshua: "All these questions being asked by people around the world," Petra said, still excited by what she'd read. "It does make the theft seem partly good." page 174. -Petra
21. Brandon - MISSING
22. Alex: “My lie is that I am only a canvas and pigment. My truth is that I am very much alive.” pg. 247 by the narrator
23. Michael: "More news on the Vermeer painting. We'll all have to pray that the FBI knows what they're doing." Petra - Pg. 201
24. Senna: "Fake or not, the letter was intriguing. . . . A centuries-old crime. What could this person be planning?" - Narrator Page 4
25. Aidan - MISSING
26. Dillon: "A woman tossed and turned in bed, her long hair trapping moonlight against the pillow. She was going over lists of names in her mind. The more she thought, the more agitated she became. She was not amused.Could this be a coincidence, or a clever warning? What exactly could this person know about her past?" Page-3; Narrator
27. Karly: “No one knew who the people he painted were, or why he painted the things he did. No one know how he became an artist. Vermeer had left behind more questions than answers.” -The Narrator, page 75
28. Matthew: "Something that gave his mind a new idea to spin around. Something that gave him a fresh way of seeing things each time he looked at it." Page 51 - Calder
29. Thijs: "There is much to be uncovered about the world than most people think." Pg.# - 49 Petra Andalee's thought.
30. Isabella: ” You and I know something things people don’t” Pg.151 – Petra
1. Afra -" You know," Mrs. Hussey said finally," Picasso said that art is a lie but a lie that tells the truth."-Mrs. Hussey(originally said by Picasso); Page 36
2. Shreya: "They didn't know if the world was ready for it. And they still weren't entirely sure what had been real and what was not."; Page 254 - Narrator
3. Athena: "Well, there are many things about life, many experiences, that we don't have an explanation for, as Mr. Fort said. But what interests me is the idea that much of what we humans take to be a lie is true, and much of what we think is true is a lie." -Pg. 183, Mrs. Sharpe
4. Milly: It was one thing if you were using a handful of plastic pieces to find solutions to a puzzle; It was another if you felt like you'd fallen inside a puzzle and couldn't get out."- Page 98, by Calder
5. Amrin: "What about the letter she had picked up that day on Harper Avenue - had that been one of the original three? Was Mrs. Sharpe really a victim now? Was Ms. Hussey? Petra's thought's swirled in circles, refusing to make sense." Pg. 143 - Narrator
6. Yush: "Wide awake now, Petra thought of Charles Fort. Was he responsible for the woman's visit? Had he brought them together? Educated by surprises... Fort understood what Petra had often felt: There is much more to be uncovered about the world than most people think." Pg. 49 - Narrator
7. Jared: "Was this letter insane, or inspired? And was she just being gullible, thinking this person was really writing to her? Maybe hundred of these letters have gone out. Had her name been picked out from a phone book?" -Narrator; Page 4
8. Janhvi: "Sometimes he wished he'd never heard of Fort or Vermeer. Events that were
purely accidental were beginning to feel like they fit together, but not in a way
he understood or even knew how to think about." - Pg. 98, by Calder
9. Katherine: "Rereading each sentence in pieces, she began to get a grip on what Fort was saying: Depending on how you look at things, your world could change completely." page 45 - Petra
10. Anshul "Was this a joke? Who would go through the trouble of writing and sending such a letter? It was printed on expensive stationary, the kind you buy if you want to be impressive. Or pretentious." Page 1 Narrator.
11. Byron: "They both stared at the T in Calder's palm. T for twelve. There aren't twelve floors...hmm. I don't get it." Pg. 155 - Calder
12. Samantha: " Getting an unforgettable letter is a pretty tough thing to do unless you have something very real to say. It shouldn't be artificial. Perhaps I made a mistake." Pg. 27 - Ms. Hussey
13. Rachel: "Something the rest of us don't know about Petra? Something you'd like to tell the police? No more secrets, now. And hanging out in Calder's garden-really?" said by Denise on page 145
14. Madison: "A strange chair?" "Modern art with things hanging from it?" "Does th writer want to stay anonymous, or do you want to tell us what this is?" Ms. Hussey asked after several guesses had been made." by Ms. Hussey Pg. 61
15. Preston: " She imagined the cops standing over her body with the letter in their hand saying, 'Jeesh! She shoulda called us first thing. She coulda been alive today." by narrator on page 4
16. Ailynn: "But what interests me is that the idea that we humans take to be a lie to be true, and much of what we think is true is a lie." Page 183 by Mrs. Sharpe
17. Saahil: "Fake or not, the letter was intriguing.... A centuries-old-crime. What could this person be planning? And what about the spooky part? If you show this to the authorities, you will most certainly be placing your life in danger." -Pg. 4 - Narrator
18. Jake: MISSING
19. Cyrus: “ This book begins, like a set of pentominoes, with separate pieces. Eventually they will all come together. Don’t be fooled by ideas that seem, at first, to fit easily. Don’t be fooled by ideas that don’t seem to fit at all. Pentominoes, like people, can surprise you.” preview pg. – Narrator
20. Joshua: "All these questions being asked by people around the world," Petra said, still excited by what she'd read. "It does make the theft seem partly good." page 174. -Petra
21. Brandon - MISSING
22. Alex: “My lie is that I am only a canvas and pigment. My truth is that I am very much alive.” pg. 247 by the narrator
23. Michael: "More news on the Vermeer painting. We'll all have to pray that the FBI knows what they're doing." Petra - Pg. 201
24. Senna: "Fake or not, the letter was intriguing. . . . A centuries-old crime. What could this person be planning?" - Narrator Page 4
25. Aidan - MISSING
26. Dillon: "A woman tossed and turned in bed, her long hair trapping moonlight against the pillow. She was going over lists of names in her mind. The more she thought, the more agitated she became. She was not amused.Could this be a coincidence, or a clever warning? What exactly could this person know about her past?" Page-3; Narrator
27. Karly: “No one knew who the people he painted were, or why he painted the things he did. No one know how he became an artist. Vermeer had left behind more questions than answers.” -The Narrator, page 75
28. Matthew: "Something that gave his mind a new idea to spin around. Something that gave him a fresh way of seeing things each time he looked at it." Page 51 - Calder
29. Thijs: "There is much to be uncovered about the world than most people think." Pg.# - 49 Petra Andalee's thought.
30. Isabella: ” You and I know something things people don’t” Pg.151 – Petra
Poems for Chasing Vermeer: (updated: January 24, 2012, @ 3:12 PM )
1. Afra - "A Mystery" by Afra
2. Athena: "Mystery Animal" by Athena
3. Rachel: "What Mystery Pervades as Well!" by Emily Dickinson
4. Milly: "Pieces" by Milly
5. Shreya: "Life is a Mystery" by Shreya
6. Amrin - "The Greatest Puzzles" by Amrin
7. Yush: "Clues, Curiosity, and Confusion!' by Yush
8. Jared: "It's Just a Game" by Jared
9. Saahil: "The Mysteries Of Nature As Mysteries Remain" by Francis Duggan
10. Byron: "A Puzzling Mystery" by Byron
11. Katherine: "The Street" by Octavio Paz
12. Samantha : "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
13. Madison: "Riders" By: Robert Frost
14. Karly: “A Clue” by Jennifer Jacobs
15. Isabella: "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
16. Joshua: "Who Done It?" by Joshua
17. Dillon: "The Case of the Missing Trousers" by Peter Dome
18. Matthew: "The Many Puzzles" by Matthew
19. Anshul : "Mysterious Puzzles" by Anshul
20. Cyrus: “After One Before Another” by Steven Curtis Lance
21. Janhvi: "Jigsaw Puzzle" by Janhvi
22. Michael: "The Cemetery" by Lucirina Telor Vevan
23. Senna: "Life's Puzzle" by George A. Burgagni
24. Ailynn: "Mysteries of Life" by Ailynn
25. Preston: "Mysteries" by Rani Turton
26. Thijs:
27. Jake: MISSING
28. Brandon: MISSING
29. Aidan: Missing
30. Karly: MISSING
1. Afra - "A Mystery" by Afra
2. Athena: "Mystery Animal" by Athena
3. Rachel: "What Mystery Pervades as Well!" by Emily Dickinson
4. Milly: "Pieces" by Milly
5. Shreya: "Life is a Mystery" by Shreya
6. Amrin - "The Greatest Puzzles" by Amrin
7. Yush: "Clues, Curiosity, and Confusion!' by Yush
8. Jared: "It's Just a Game" by Jared
9. Saahil: "The Mysteries Of Nature As Mysteries Remain" by Francis Duggan
10. Byron: "A Puzzling Mystery" by Byron
11. Katherine: "The Street" by Octavio Paz
12. Samantha : "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
13. Madison: "Riders" By: Robert Frost
14. Karly: “A Clue” by Jennifer Jacobs
15. Isabella: "A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
16. Joshua: "Who Done It?" by Joshua
17. Dillon: "The Case of the Missing Trousers" by Peter Dome
18. Matthew: "The Many Puzzles" by Matthew
19. Anshul : "Mysterious Puzzles" by Anshul
20. Cyrus: “After One Before Another” by Steven Curtis Lance
21. Janhvi: "Jigsaw Puzzle" by Janhvi
22. Michael: "The Cemetery" by Lucirina Telor Vevan
23. Senna: "Life's Puzzle" by George A. Burgagni
24. Ailynn: "Mysteries of Life" by Ailynn
25. Preston: "Mysteries" by Rani Turton
26. Thijs:
27. Jake: MISSING
28. Brandon: MISSING
29. Aidan: Missing
30. Karly: MISSING