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The Enthusiasm of our Youth:
Rapture Technique

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Rapture Poems: Text

The Enthusiasm of Our Youth

Phuc Le

On the green board written in chalk


The enthusiasm of our youth


Thousands of coloured powder of chalk flying


Make the sky more admirable


If the time’d have cleaned it up


The small birds outside will have sung sweet melodies


And the wind, the breeze will dance with green pine needles


Spread out the scent of wild sunflowers to wooden doors


Around our classroom is still echoing the warm voice of our dear teacher


And here in front of the long wooden desks


What t twenty-five students share with


Where they would paint it in stunning skies


The handsome monitor


The humorous pretty girls


Fresh breeze will rain and water the fields of wild sunflowers


The roses’ scent will whisper it


The enthusiasm of our youth


But if we fail to see it in the fresh air and bright moon


In scent of cauliflowers and cabbages


The enthusiasm of our youth


We might have to keep it quiet


And look it deep in our heart


Where it will be dancing all around


The enthusiasm of our youth


If we do not find it in our hearts


We might have to return to our old classroom


On the green board written in chalk


The enthusiasm of our youth

Rapture Poems: Text

Untitled List

Phuc Le

Coloured chalk 
Green chalkboard 
Scent of roses, cauliflowers, cabbage,and wild sunflowers; 
blue sky, breeze, 
Warm voice of the teachers 
Long wooden desks 
The sound of small birds

Rapture Poems: Text

Vietnam Rapture

Collective Composition

                                                                time



                           school




                country                      the world

           things

   Many of the classrooms              blocks called A7, A30                A7

The block      an old one floored building with yellow walls and plain wooden tables and benches.

    The classroom               old, simply equiped and quite dark 

  In front of the block              a quite big yard                                                shuttle cock. 

                                                a halogen monitor



                                                                                                                                        the North

            1500km        the University





                                                                                                                                                   4 year

                                                      old days                                         days           youth.



                                                          university more than 10 years




                                                                                classroom space,           not too big, but spacious enough                                            the tables          unmovable



                                                                                                                  candies, bananas

                                                                                                              guitar




                                                                                               a remote village





   a year

                                                                                                                              15 signatures


 5 years

villages                                      Langbian mountain.

                                         many pictures

                         pictures

                                                                                       time

                                                                                                                       another country

                           time

                                                                                                    one day

old days




                                                           University





                                 A7, A8 buildings            University

              University

                                                                                                                                   University,  

                  S                                                                                                             many parts





                                                                                 the atmosphere in the classroom

                                                                                                 coffee      ice cream

             the atmosphere in the class                   guitar,

 guitar



                         the guitar



                                                                         costumes.

              night                          a day             bread, snacks, and soft drinks



                                                                           the forest


     

                                                                         the forest                                          award



the night

night



                                                     the classroom

landmarks                        Love Valley, Camly Falls, Than Tho Lake, Langbiang Mountain




                                                    city, the places found in Vietnamese poetry

                                       in the classroom        outside the classroom



                                                                                                      13 years



           building           classroom




                   phones and the Internet

                                                          once a week                                                    yahoo chat





                                                                             outdoor




. We had a great experience in bringing our Vietnamese culture into activities.

       University                                            the country            area     30 ha           over 40 blocks which surrounded by a lot of trees  The University is a place                             several kinds of classroom which are spacious and well-equipped  - Small classrooms have a seating capacity of 50  - Long wooden desks and benches - Blackboards or green boards - White chalks - 1 wooden teacher desk and chair - language laboratory with 30 computers and headphones



                                                                                                     poems



                                                                                                  classroom

                          short stories                                                              home

                                                                                                   the materials


                     home                     little prices

        answers        classrooms                  old wooden tables and benches and dark green chalk board  The old tables            filled with all sorts of writings and drawings

             the test                  materials

                                                                    small school



        Disney Land

Coloured chalk Green chalkboard Scent of roses, cauliflowers, cabbage,and wild sunflowers; blue sky, breeze                              Long wooden desks The sound of small birds

- Classroom A7- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


       the guitar


                                                                                                                                                26 years                                                                                                          the teacher dormitory building which is next to the school football stadium and looking to the greenery vegetables field and the lake in front of it


                            B11 building which is located at the farthest corner of the school campus The classroom                                                                                    cold

            time

                  17 years

convey lessons to students in the most interesting and memorable way.

                                                                                         a guitar

                     pictures

camping

                                                                                                           hole on the floor


                                                           Ao Dai (Vietnamese women's traditional dress),

in



              Poems                      time


                                                                      country





                   the old school     ages



                                                                      old days

                        old days







     old days


     old days



. 

                         cold weather

                               Bui Thi Xuan






,  


                                              University

                                        flower- city

And had memorable experiences about it

            University

From warm –hearted teachers

Time                      wind

But it always exists in my mind

Working together to achieve together.

Time

memory. 

                                                       time 

                                                            University 

Some memories will exist in my mind forever indeed. 


and your figure has much influence in my life. 

                         literature                                a poem 

                                                     poem

                                                      time




On the green board written in chalk


The enthusiasm of our youth


Thousands of coloured powder of chalk flying


         the sky


          time


The small birds outside                         sweet melodies


         the wind, the breeze                           green pine needles


Spread out the scent of wild sunflowers to wooden doors


                          classroom


                                   the long wooden desks




                                                         skies





Fresh breeze         rain and water the fields of wild sunflowers


The roses’ scent



                                      the fresh air and bright moon


   scent of cauliflowers and cabbages

                                                                                                                             









                                                       old classroom


On the green board written in chalk

Rapture Poems: Text

Seattle Rapture

Collective Composition

       atmosphere                                                                          big classrooms, TV.

the whiteboard, the marker, waterbottles, notebooks,

     chewing gum in the mouth, the clock on the wall, the door with a small window, starbucks coffeecups


 the classroom

                           various countries 



                                                                                a college or an university




            textbooks

                                                       cafes and restaurants    downtown

                                                    countries 





                                                                                                         the classroom

                            a quiz and an essay                       week

                                                  a cup of coffee    the classroom                                  Objects: Whiteboard, individual chair and table



                     countries

                                                                                        the world

          homework









               warm Environment

                                                digital vocabulary, windy                   not rainy



                       late afternoon homework (essay),

everything,                                                   movies



                     hamburger, coke zero, cheddar and fries,                     one month



English poems


                                                                                     things



Large blue classroom                                       The morning



The classroom

around the world are friendly. 

The classroom



        a cup of coffee                  day.



                      an animal that walks upright

A classroom               animals


Well trained animals                            a classroom



                                              a classroom

           the world's most mysterious place 

      animals



                      country, 

                                classroom





the city            gentle drizzles

                                      the clean paved roadways

The aroma from the wet soil after rain

                                    not Jasmin! 

          ,it is produced by dead microbes                                              The breathtaking beautiful Mt. Rainier stand majestically far there across the distance on the horizon 

                the green and white canopy over the door, small steps up and through the small entrance. 


The blue grey furniture, the green wall, Kaplan logos everywhere

                    the class, warm cozy place is the class                                         the globe











                                 night

                  the dark, sounds of rockets falling echo in the distance.

                               a candle

  the dead              dilapidated buildings

Rapture Poems: Text

Indiana Rapture

Collective Composition

                                        "L" and "R"                  a picture of the mouse




                                                              round tables

                     outdoor classroom

                                                    white board

textbook

                                                                                                      not tight




                                                                                                                                       etc.

A big square table                                           A white board

                                                  A big window on one side of the classroom

by the library

                                                                              (The window

                                                                                                                            outside.)

                           letters on the board

                                                                        9-10years                 5-6years

                                                                         text books...

                                                                                       hoodies

                              the same hoodies                   The classroom itself; warm, cozy, and calm(peaceful)

                                   Desks, chairs, two desktop computers

              whiteboard, colorful board makers,board eraser, projector   Big class room


Classroom:                        atmosphere                                         Laptops

Books

Computer Games

                                                                                                                    Reade 120

         one table                                                                                    poem

                                                                                                                         some animals



                                                                                                                   films

                                                                                                                                a small classroom, kinda dark and the window was small too

                                                                                    the book                                  The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn?                a fiction                                                day


                                                                                                                              night

house                    Good Will Hunting                  a work sheet followed with 6 or 7 questions.

         a few comments on it

Table, chairs, blackboard                        western                                                            

                    writings, warm                     lots of handouts                        homework, books, library, questions,



   Colorful papers    Books                     Essays

                Warm

warm                                                     cozy                      small

                    a bit dim in the classroom                             cloudy days. The lights in that classroom         

                                                                           the "dark front". The classroom       not big                          plenty of chairs connected with small desks. The chairs did not have wheels

                                                                                                                                     the front row,                    a period of time                                                  the second row near the wall side.                                                                              a month

                                                                                                                    the classroom


                                                            the direction the projection screen faced and how big

The white board            far behind the screen                                the board 

               board              Google Word                time




                      a blank         to fill in to complete the question)

readings                                                                                                                                       a free and safe space

            classroom




                                                                                                                                     time

                                                                                                                               University




 a short time

                                                                               etc.


                                           this campus


                   middle school

          time.

                                                                                Writing assignments    Reading assignments    

                                               Movies                        Movie                                 library   Very detailed syllabus



                                                                  many cards on the floor which have different letters on them


                         chairs like a half-circle

                                                      college            9:20

                                     the classroom                                      a video                 the classroom                                             noise

                                                   the campus




                  movies                                                                   the sofa and around a TV                    many snacks on the table.

                        the day beofore

objects: homemade cookies, textbooks, desks, chairs, pencils, binder, computer, clock, backpack, blackboard, podium, playing cards  items

                                 broken TV                               the TV





                                                  sounds                        the cookies

                       grades from quizzes and exams

                                                                                                            a quiz or exam

tables

                       about 3 tables

                                                                                      'Gran Torino'                             Pop-corn                                                                                                                   Noodle's snacks

​

​

 the class environment

​

                                                색 - blue color , 상 -award , 상품 - prize, 사전- dictionary

​

​

                            the classroom                                the trees outside and the big windows in the class            the sun




                 classroom



Objects - Bean bag in the corner of the classroom - Sharpies - Handouts - Big rectangular tables


                          the couch               right next to the classroom.




              classroom

                                                            the classroom





                                                                                       나무 (na-mu,

'tree'),

                                                                                   tree?"                          the classroom             Outside the classroom                                  the study rooms adjacent to the classroom.

                                                                   a list of things, either on the board or on the sheet of paper                                   lists

                                                                                                                                          the list



                                       time

                                     bean bag

                                                  place

                                              a big bowl that holds everything



                                                                          a seat b





                                                               time    time.


 a world




                  elsewhere,

                                  classroom



Humidity 

                                     days full of air

                 the wind                           wings

Humidity in the atmosphere



             rain

         the sun

bright yellow, warm ground            nest


       fire

         the wind

                         silence

       stillness

winter

                        the sunshine,




                                                      nature.

                                                                 college

                                                                                10 mins




        place







                                                                          drops of perspiration all along the path.


                           the footprints



              place               the place



Seasons

             the spring                bright sunshine

                            outside           books

            the clear blue sky             blanket    the summer

                                                 an essay

           the leaves             red and yellow feathers in fall

           the movies

          the winter                  the white snow like cotton

                                                                            city of America




   the seasons





                                                                      the place





 everything                                 I was an alien.

There was a new place and the clear blue sky

                        an aliean




  Light 



                                           light anywhere there

                                    the dark                                                the light

                                      the dark?

                                     the light? 

    a shooting star falling from the night sky 



                                   the light



  season                           a flowering leaf

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

All winter                                cave 

A hibernating bear

        winter earth

Lush with wriggling, splashing sprouts

                               day


Yellow rapeseed blossoms

                     Spring


Red leaves bloom

Morning glory

              Summer


The fall sky is coursed

With moss and pink



            winter      white flowers

Blending well with any color 



                        the top



           downhill





                             the peak 




                    soap

                  a bubble of bubbles

One bubble

The next

                                another

             some point

The bubbles burst

And disappear


Washed away like soil



 every so often

The bubbles converge

And grow

And swell

And burst

And reappear

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