Thursday, May 30, 2013

Kobayashi Issa and third grade responses

We presented the following Kobayashi Issa poem to students and asked them for their reflections...

Don't Kill That Fly!

Look, don't kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you
By rubbing its hands and feet.

Kobayashi Issa


"I don't understand this poem.  But when I read it I feel like it is saying something very important."

"I think it is like the lion and them mouse where the fly is saying please don't kill me because one day I could be important for you."


"This doesn't make sense.  Kobayashi is putting his own feelings into the fly.  Flies don't think."


"This remind me of a friend of our family's who's family doesn't have a religion so she decided to be Buddhist.  She goes around all Buddha this Buddha that but then she kills mosquitos."



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