{"id":6401,"date":"2011-05-26T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:43:32","slug":"shovels-tcluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/shovels-tcluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Shovels"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Listen to Wes McNair Reading the Poem<\/strong>\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/Shovels-edited-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/td>\n<td><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Shovels<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Initial Exploration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Who could have guessed he would choose<br \/>\nto spend so much of his time bent over<br \/>\na shovel, one wrist so weak he wore<br \/>\nan ace bandage on it, his asthmatic lungs<br \/>\nforcing him to stop for breath again<br \/>\nand again. \u201cNever mind,\u201d he would say to us,<br \/>\nhis three young stepsons, when we<br \/>\nstopped too, \u201cget back to work.\u201d<br \/>\nEvery weekend<br \/>\nfor a whole winter, we hauled cinders<br \/>\nfrom the paper mill to level the driveway.<br \/>\nThat next spring he had us digging holes<br \/>\nfor the barn\u2019s corner posts, angry that we kept<br \/>\nfighting with each other in our anger<br \/>\nabout the endlessness of banging our shovels<br \/>\ninto the nearly frozen ground. Why did he<br \/>\ndrive us that way? Why was he so hard<br \/>\non himself, always the last one to come<br \/>\nin the house out of the dark.<br \/>\nOne summer<br \/>\nwe dug until we found ourselves inside<br \/>\na waist-high trench he said would bring water<br \/>\nup from the river to the plants of his nursery.<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ll never get anywhere,\u201d he told us,<br \/>\n\u201cuntil you learn the meaning of work.\u201dAbove ground in the moonlight, as I return<br \/>\nthrough this poem, the tall grass has no idea<br \/>\nwhere we laid that pipe. The sprinkler system<br \/>\nfor the nursery, dead for years, has forgotten why.<br \/>\nAll the truckloads of fill we brought to prevent<\/p>\n<p>the bank\u2019s erosion are on their way down<br \/>\ninto the river. In the back of the old barn,<br \/>\nits aluminum siding curled from the weather,<br \/>\nthe shovels we once used stand upside down<br \/>\nagainst the wall in the window\u2019s light like flowers,<br \/>\nmaking a kind of memorial to the work<br \/>\nwe did then, some with blunted points, some<br \/>\nscalloped at the center, where after all those years<br \/>\nof shoveling, the shoveled themselves away.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp1-871x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12374\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp1-871x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp1-871x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp1-871x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp1-871x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr1-871x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12375\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr1-871x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr1-871x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr1-871x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr1-871x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transitions and Structure<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp2-880x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12376\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp2-880x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp2-880x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp2-880x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp2-880x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr2-880x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12377\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr2-880x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr2-880x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr2-880x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr2-880x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Endings and Line Breaks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp3-883x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12378\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp3-883x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp3-883x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp3-883x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-nbp3-883x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr3-883x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12379\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr3-883x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr3-883x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr3-883x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/shovels-ovr3-883x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6401\" data-postid=\"6401\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6401 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image and audio objects for teaching the poem &#8220;Shovels&#8221; 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