The weather outside school walls happened to be warm and springlike, contrasting with the scene set in Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Arguably, the opposite environment intensified its chilly setting, where an unnamed speaker halts their horse in mid journey “to watch his woods fill up with snow” on “the darkest evening of the year.” Whose woods? The same person who lives in the nearby farmhouse? No—“his house is in the village,” where the speaker also seems to dwell. The horse, anyway, senses that something is amiss, his “harness bells” the only sound aside from an “easy wind.” The speaker thinks the woods are “lovely, dark and deep,” confessing they have “promises to keep,” then ending with a cryptic couplet: “And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.” We discussed the importance of repeating that simple line, as well as Frost’s twisty rhyme scheme. The poem’s lofty reputation seems well earned!
Its sonic details are few, but vital, so for their own writing, students were asked to focus on sound.
Ms. Kawa
4th Grade
The Dog Jolin C. Crash, bang, boom up the stairs he goes bumping into the table here and there. Break a vase and chandelier. He finally arrives in record breaking time. Nom nom nom he goes. Then back to sleep he goes. Sound asleep. Sound asleep. Untitled David H. When the bells ring the door opens. When the oven dongs the TV songs. When the FBI breaches your house run for your life. When I Watch YouTube Josephine P. When I watch YouTube I try to make the sound loud but quiet. When there is a sad video, I silently cry, one of the only times I cry. Somehow my brother and sister find me watching it in my grandma's bathroom. I get very mad at them. I watch for less than an hour, then I am done. Sound Malcolm S. Sound is everything you might be hearing sound right now sound is life we sound we hear YAAA Bing Bingg Liam T. Bing bingg the timer wakes you up Bing bingg you're late for school your mom yells. You wake up; you change, you eat. You go downstairs and see your mom doing the dishes bang she cracked a plate and sadly, the plate dies Untitled Kylie W. yelling bang scream sounds Untitled Rylan W. Once I could hear everything. I could hear dogs, I could hear cats. Now look at me not hearing anything. Now I have to walk miles and miles to hear and I need to hear to understand.
Ms. Makris
4th Grade
Sound John B. Sound is so cool you can make boom, pow, crash and so many more. You can learn onomatopoeia like boom, crash, and so many. My Sound Ally C. Oh my sound so loud. So quiet. The sound is both. It can be sad or happy. I love it, when it is laughingly. It is sound joyful! Can you guess what sound it is? Me! I can be loud and quiet, happy or sad. That sound is joyful! I can go Boom Clap Smack and even more, but it's all for here. Untitled Andrew D. It was quiet but then the sound broke. Maybe a cow, a duck, or not. They by far are too loud. It was the sound the sound was it it was a breeze but too hard a gust but too slow. All it was was a cat making a hairball it was just a cat after all the search. Sound Test Chase E. It was a normal Friday afternoon. We had a big AIR test. We didn't get any breaks. We only got to eat and go to the bathroom. It was very quiet in the rest of testing. The Annoying Sound Sway K. Me and my friend went on a road trip. Once we were there I heard something drop on to metal. I look up, it was still doing it. When my friends came to play tag and more when we went to the room it was still doing. When I got up to the 2nd floor found a broken ice machine still on. That annoying sound was just ice. Untitled Jackson L. One time I heard a loud bang! So I went downstairs to see what it was. It was a scary looking monster and I said AHH! Why? Addie P. I woke up hearing a BOM BOM!!?! I told myself it's OK there's probably nothing happening again BOM! Bang!? Why is this happening to me? What did I do? Why? Why? Why? Then next something very strange Oink? Oink! Is that a pig? Why? Why? Why? Is it a dream or what? Do I have a drum in my house? What did I do? Why is this happening? I think my house is broken. Next day? Going downstairs. Oink (sees pig). What happened down here? The Sound of Nature Milan P. I love the sound of the ocean, banging on my feet, and the sound of my feet scrunching in the sand. I think of me toiling with the trees. I listen to the leaves falling down on my head as they put me to bed. Untitled Carrie S. I don't like when people scream at and dogs bark I don't like ASMR
Mr. O’Brien
4th Grade
Untitled Niko H. I went in the forest and I heard haar! And I was like Freddy Fazbear. Then Angel said eeee eeeeek bells ringing DOOOOOOONG then I forgot. What am I? Untitled Maximo T. Sound in a quiet peaceful room all you now hear is yourself and maybe water flowing in a river stream or a waterfall and quiet screen on TV Sounds Abrielle W. there can be a sound in a classroom there can be a sound when you go to sleep there is a sound when people are sick there is sound when people talk there is sound when people play there is sound when people walk there is sound when eat there is sound everywhere!
Ms. Nelson
4th Grade
Death and Anxiety Zoe B. Death sounds like everything everything is clear, then muffled then it's nothing. Anxiety sounds like everything attacking you everything is muffled as well as blurry. With anxiety you feel like passing out. When you feel like that you hear nothing. With death you feel like nothing. And you hear nothing. Untitled Grant B. Buzzz My haircut Beep The cash register scanner Cha ching The ATM Clap clap The class Vroom A car Gulp Drinking water Untitled Vivian B. Sound! It's too loud. It hurts my ears. My friends bow down. I have fallen due to the bad noise. Now everyone is in a panic. I can't even hear my own voice. Ringing in my ears. An ambulance I hear. I hear the paramedics but I don't open my eyes. They seem to be glued shut. Suddenly everything goes quiet. I wake up in a hospital. The noise is gone. I feel like singing. Now there is no singing. Untitled Ari R. “I love to hear the fans roar at United Center.” The Paycheck Ch-Ching Ari the GOAT Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.”
