'Rien ne nous rend si grands qu'une grande douleur.'
Nothing makes us so great as a great sadness.
Alfred de MUSSET, Poésies nouvelles, La nuit de mai
I know I don't ever really put any of my thoughts into here but:
'Hey Joe - I'm just going to keep your picture up on here for awhile, if you don't mind.'
Goodbye. I want to put your student of the week picture on your chair there so I can look at it and you will be less missing. You were a heart in our little class of the lovliest kids. One of the biggest hearts. I got everyone to say your name in that "Italian" way. Even though your French name was Pierre.
I looked at your grades yesterday for a report card that hasn't even come out yet- and just like you told me on Friday- straight 'A's.'And then in the hall you stopped with your book bag on to make sure I was coming to hang out in Mr. Scheffel's class with you and everyone 9th period. I helped you draw the shamrocks on your folder at the beginning of the year .Your mom told me on Parent's Night how you were so happy you had chosen French. I told her I was so happy you had chosen it, too.
I've never been good at coping with these types of things. I usually can't think about them at all. When I am confronted with them I get choked up with the mis-understanding. Like:
'Excuse me, God, why? There must be some sort of misunderstanding? '
I mean, I don't have trouble understanding or taking in what has happened; that the person won't be there anymore or will not grow up to be a man and lament all the things I am lamenting now...although something tells me he would have been fine.
Anyway, I get all of this.The misunderstanding lies in the reasoning of it all, which i know philosphers and poets have agonized over for hundreds of years. Questions that will forever separate him and his family from many of us, like:Why do his parents have to be so sad? So empty? Lose half of their identity really- because he was an only child-and in reality, they are no longer parents. I'm sure I will see this again during my career. I marvel at the jobs who see this kind of tragedy every day and go on. Just carry on. God bless them , truly. Because I could never do it.
As for the rest I'll let John, Paul, George, and Ringo do the talking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZYqAeIdYkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzlIKen2aw
Trivia:Born in 1883, this pioneering French fashion designer was the only person in the field to ever be featured in Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.'
Hier: Which word is NOT slang for 'money' and what does that word mean?
Déjeuner: Fresh pizza
7th grade:
- Commencez la maison (I think, at this point?)
- Repetez le vocabulaire.
- Fill in Vocab. sheet and LOTTO card.
Où habites -tu?
J'habite _______________
De quelle couleur est ta maison?
Ma maison est ____________!
Il y a combien de pièces dans ta maison?
Il y a ____________ pièces (dans ma maison.)
Devoirs: Fill in rest of Vocab. sheet/ LOTTO card.
8th grade:
- Discuss negatives a bit...Do little sheet about how to make sentences negative!
- Prennez le quiz : ÊTRE.
- Révisez le quiz.
Demain : Commencez "ER" verbies! Eeeep.
18 comments:
Gabrielle Chanel
Garlor
Coco Chanel
rain stegemollllllller☺♥☺
coolio I jnew thw anwser befor I looked it up: Coco Chanel who is responsible for Chanel No 5 and the "little black dress"... I know my fashion designers...somewhat
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
Kelly martinez
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
jennifer martinez
miss b what u wrote touced my heart heres mine
I ask myself these questionswhy does such a nice kid like joe have to leave.I dont understand.But theres always a why things happen.it just seems like god should have given him more time to live but i guess he didnt.just keep in mind we cared about u. and well never forget your nice smile
bye joe
we miss u already
and ur in our heaqrts forever
RIP
PS we ♥u forever♥♥♥♥♥
Ms.B that is sooo sweet!I swear I was so upset when you called us your children,and that you had one less.
reading it over made me cry again.................mrs.frap today was trying to move a set and couldn't and said "Come on guys who was supposed to move this set!!"(she gets antsy around opening night)we all looked at the floor and it was the worst moment of my life...
Coco Chanel
-lucy
goodbye joe, we all miss you so much
Coco Chanel is the answer to this mournful day's trivia. Despite the general melancholoy (spelled wrong)and lamentations that pervades the class's atmosphere, what you composed Ms. B and willing shared, helped the class realize the tremendous loss and mourn the passing of Joe has a whole more bearable. I as one of your "kids" realize and feel extremely emphetic to this dire time.
Thank you Ms.B.
With affection,
D. Terner
ya miss b wats up???i know how much you miss joe because of all off the emotion you put into that one blog....when my cat died i wrote her a note and then i wrote a second note with all of the same words so when i miss her most(which is basically every night) i can pull it out and look at it.it helps me feel better i dont know why but it just does.
i hope you cheer up soon.
<3 rubber bands
....i know im grounded but my parents arent home so i sneaked this in=)
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.
Thank you so much for writing that, it was overwhelmingly sweet.Just going to the blog made me start crying again. You and Mrs. Frap have been the best, you both have actually showed emotion and made sure we will all remember him. <3<3
Coco Chanel was the pioneering French desinger born in 1883.
-marijane
I don't understand why Joe had to leave. I didn't know him very well, but I still feel terrible inside. He passed to early in his life. I think to myself... that it could have been me. And then i think of all my dreams that i want to accomplish. Joe had dreams like mine. I know he did. And knowing that his dreams couldn't be accomplished makes me cry. He didn't get to experience so many things. R.I.P. Joe Riccio.<3
When you went over it in class I knew it was Coco Chanel, especially when you said some people would know the Chanel logo. I wasn't sure if she was born in the late 1800's, though.... I didn't even know Joe, but what you said in class was really sad. I feel so bad for his parents. Just dying at such a young age....
CoCo Channel.
Jenn Brocco.<3
Coco Chanel
Doug D.
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