Hello and welcome to our video summarizing all you need to know about Christina Rossetti as well as her best known poems. My name is Barbara and in this video I'll cover all the Rossetti poetry you'll be expected to know in depth if you're studying her poetry as part of your A-level or university courseworks or exams. In this video we'll begin by discussing a little background and context relating to Christina Rossetti before we move on to analyzing several of her best known poems in detail. Do make sure you have your anthology handy as you'll need to pause the video before we analyze each poem. Read it then watch the analysis as we go along. In this way you can better have an understanding of the poem and get a lot of value out of this video. So let's get started. Now when it comes to Christina Rossetti herself she was born in 1830 and passed away in 1894. She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic devotional and children's poems and she's famous for writing goblin market and remember both of which you're going to look at. Christina was born in London to Gabriel Rossetti, a poet in political exile from Vasto Arbruzzo since 1824 and Frances Poli Dori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Poli Dori. She had two brothers and a sister Dante Gabriel became an influential artist and poet and William Michael and Maria both became writers. Christina who is the youngest was a lively child. She dictated her first story to her mother before she learned to write. Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. Rossetti delighted in the works of Keats, Scott and Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. They influenced the work of Dante Algieri and Petrarch and other Italian writers filled the home and would have a deep impact on Rossetti's later writing. The home was open to visiting Italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries. So let's start with the first poem when I'm dead my dearest. Now when you're analysing this poem it's firstly important to understand that it has two stanzas which are very balanced and symmetrical to juxtapose the experience of death for those left behind and for the person who's died. The poem directly addresses the lover in the first stanza with affection. It is a series of imperatives instructing the lover on how to behave. The repetition of negatives emphasises the speakers' dislike of traditional funeral rituals, no songs, roses or cypress trees. These are symbolic of exhibitionist grief, love, melancholy, which the poet does not want or rather the narrator doesn't want. She chooses instead green grass which is natural and eternal. It will always be watered by showers and dew drops and will last forever, showers represent tears. The end of the first stanza ignores all the previous imperatives and offers the lover the choice of remembering or forgetting. There's no sense one is better than the other, the living must deal with death as they choose. The second stanza is from the point of view of the dead. It begins with more negatives but this time it is the sense which no longer work for the dead person. They cannot see, feel or hear, however the things they are unable to discern are all negative. Shadows, rain and songs of pain. Does that mean that death is a better place? Death is imagined through the metaphor of asleep. She's dreaming in a perpetual twilight. Dreaming sounds positive and the twilight suggests she's neither dead nor alive but in a limbo. The poem ends on the uncertainty of perhaps happily. She's not sure what will happen, this is outside her control. Echoing the end of the first stanza, we shall have the lover to determine their reaction. The dead speaker wonders if she'll remember or forget. This suggests that her consciousness will continue after death and therefore she'll be in the same position as her lover. Remember is another poem to be aware of? So this is a Petrarchan sonnet, a form which was normally employed by men to write love poetry to women and it's obviously interesting that Rosetti, who's a woman, employs this form. Both the subject matter and the voice have been radically altered by the poet to create something startling. Instead of romantic love, the poem is about a great type of love beyond the physical and human which wants happiness for a loved one, even when one cannot be with them. The fact that the passion is expressed while a woman is equally startling for its time. The poetic voice is authoritative and passionate, directly addressing the lover. The octave is a series of repeated imperatives to remember me. This is directly addressed to the lover, we as readers are eavesdropping. The repetition suggests that the voice is desperate to live in the lover's mind. It possibly suggests that it's anxious that death will cancel the love out. The repetition of gone away suggests the vastness of death. Death is a long journey removing her from her lover. Death is imagined as a silent land. This metaphor creates a sense of death and the afterlife is a lonely and remote place where she will hear no one. This contrasts with her life with her lovers. It will be a time when he can no longer hold her hand. This image suggests physical affection but also a sense of restraint. He's battling against death and trying to keep her. But this won't work. She's also unable to control her own death. She'll be unable to decide if she wants to stay. There's a sense of death removing her authority which she tries hard to reassert through the poem which is repetitive and spoken in imperative sentences. These devices then come to show the insecurity rather than confidence. The Volta in line 8 of this poem changes the direction of this sonnet. The final cess-tet begins with yet showing that the speaker is hesitant. She runs on rapidly in the cess-tet with Anjamp Mont creating one long sentence. It's as if the final sentiment is overwhelming and has to be expressed rapidly. She thinks about what will happen when he forgets her for a while and wants him not to feel bad about this inevitable moving on. She'd rather he forgot her and lived a happy life than remembered her and was sad after she's gone. Death is imagined more actively in the cess-tet. Instead of being a distant land, it's a place of darkness and corruption. This suggests something sinister and decaying and it's frightening. The vestige of the thought suggests that she hopes even in the horror of death a part of her consciousness will stay and will realise that this happiness is more important than her desire for him to remember her. It becomes a self-sacrificing cess-tet sentiment. The title remember is therefore ironic as by the end of the poem she knows that the kindest thing she could hope for her lover is that he will forget her and move on with his life. Now looking at the poem from the antique it's a weary life it is she said. So the poem is in four stanzas which begin and end with the weariness of life. This suggests that living has no meaning and it's just hard and tiring. There's a sense the character cannot escape this thought as their dears never progress beyond it. It's not the poet speaking but a character, a woman with no name. Why is she denied a name?  The speaker speaks of the whole of the rest of the poem which is left there as a pronouncement for us to judge and consider. It's not the poet's thought but a character created by her telling us an opinion which must be contemplated. Life is described as weary but double blank for a woman. This image makes life seem twice as bad for a woman. However it's not just wearing for women it's blank. This implies that it is entirely empty. The life of a woman must be without meaning or worth. Repetitions throughout this poem suggest a sense of depression and exhaustion and a desire for something better. The repetition of wish elicits a feeling of a fairy tale but this wish is to become another gender she wants to be a man. What would this represent for her? Perhaps it'd represent a lack of blankness and ability to do something worthwhile? But even men would be better not being alive as life is so tiring where not is a euphemism for death perhaps or it could be the suggestion that people should just not exist in this world. The second stanza imagines a world of no people neither physically nor spiritually. She uses the image of vastness to illustrate a grain of dust is tiny and a drop of water from pole to pole suggests the expanse of the world in which there's nothing human. In stanza three the repetition of still shows that the character knows the world would carry on. The verb wag suggests the world would go on without the weariness of human life. Wag makes it sound easy and light hearted indeed nature without people seems really positive with seasons and blossoms and cherries and bees. It remains a more beautiful world without people. Finally the woman says no one would miss her and there will not be any grief expressed for her loss. In this case she concludes it'd be better she should be nothing but the rest of humanity should carry on living as she's so unimportant. The description of the cycle of life is habitual and negative. Life is imagined as one day in which people wake, grow tired and sleep. It's all just a process of exhaustion which nature is not part of and it all seems to be man-made. This poem is an insight into character without a spiritual belief. Does it suggest that life without Christianity is perhaps blank? The other poem to be aware of is called Echo. The title suggests a sound memory. This is a poem about communicating with something which is now in the past or dead. The poem describes how she can communicate to the dead lover while she's dreaming. The echo is the sound he has left for her. The first stanza is full of urgency. She repeatedly begs him to come to me. Although it's an instruction it sounds desperate rather than authoritative because of this repetition. She begs him to come in the silence of the night but this is ironic as it's when it is apparently quiet that she's able to hear him and communicate with him. This paradox is highlighted in the oxymoronic language of the speaking silence of a dream. The dream is able to communicate with her although it's quiet and no one else can hear it. The way she imagines a dead lover with rounded cheeks and bright eyes suggests that in the dream he's not dead or sick but looking healthy and alive.  The image suggests daytime and life which is the opposite of what he now is. The oh is an exclamation of extreme emotion. She's desperate. She wants him to come back even if it calls a sadness tears. She wants the love of the time which now is over or finished. The second stanza begins with more emotion. Oh but this time she's happy because she's in the dream world which brings him to life. The dream is sweet but the repeated two suggests that the fantasy is too good and it's damaging. The oxymoron of bittersweet shows the confusion of emotions. When she wakes from sleep she's no longer in paradise. Paradise seems to be both being with her lover and death as that would bring the two of them back together. It's the place where the souls can live and meet.  They're hungry and full of desire for him. She's describing an immense passion and desire. The eyes watch a slow door which is a symbol of the barrier between the two world. It's an obstacle to the communication as well as an entry point for her to reach him. The door is opening because it's death and letting people in but it can never let them leave. She's watching the door for him but she can't yet enter. The final stanza begins with yet or however she's brought back to reality.  If he comes back in dreams she can be equal to him. Her description of the meeting is sensual and passionate. She meets him with her pulse, breath and speech remembering how they were long ago but her dream crumbles in the truth of reality and she exclaims how long ago the intimacy now was. Her dream has not succeeded in reviving him. It's reminded her of how much time has passed since they were together. The next poem to be aware of is called Shout Out. Now the seven stanzas in this poem have a regular rhyme scheme of A, B, B, A. This regular rhyme and rhythm belies the agitation of the poetic voices experience. The poem opens with the door shut but the title tells us that she is shut out. This suggests she's trapped outside somewhere she wants to enter. It forces the reader to reassess ideas of entrapment and imprisonment. One can be trapped outside something when one is actually free which is ironic in a sense. The door has iron bars which allow her to peep in. The iron is symbolic of something hard and impenetrable. The garden is not to be accessed easily. The fact that she sees it lie in front of her suggests double meanings of deceit and openness. The repetition of possessive pronouns my and mine remind the reader that what she looks at once was hers. However she's lost her home. The description of the garden pied with flowers suggesting it's dappled with many different colors. The be-dewed is both natural but also reminiscent of be-dewed. Therefore the garden is both precious and natural. The speaker describes the garden with songbirds, flowers and nests. The items are both delightful to hear and see. The moths and bees suggest both productivity and morality working together. They represent the day and night working simultaneously. This means the garden must have eliminated time and decay. It's beyond mortality. It's paradise. The garden was hers but it's now been lost. The sibilance of shadowless spirit conjures up the idea of something without substance and existence. It exists without the sun or time. This is important in a poem about sight. The spirit is constant described using the simile like the grave. It's permanent and unbending. She begs at first for buds which suggest new life and then for a tweak. She wants an item to remind her of home but more importantly to make the garden remember her and wait for her to come again. She's hopeful that she can return to it in the future. The spirit silently denies her building a wall. This is a permanent barrier unlike the door. It also will not allow her to see paradise. Left alone she cries until she can't see but this is of no matter as there's nothing worth looking at. She notices a violet bed and a lark. Violets represent faithfulness. Does this mean she'll be loyal to her vision of paradise and persist in working towards it? The lark represents hope and life. They're both dear and good but they're not the best. They're pill versions of the perfect platonic image of paradise which she must settle for now. Now in the Round Tower at Jansse June 8 1857 of course published in 1862. This poem is interesting as it's based on historical events reported during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 although Rosetti wrote a footnote for the poem in 1875 explaining that it had subsequently been revealed that the scheme family did not commit suicide but they were captured and killed. This poem is a dramatic poem of five stanzas of regular rhythm and rhyme scheme ABAB. The regularity highlights the horror of the events described. The voices of the couple are dramatized and hearing them speak makes the event seem immediate and urgent. The relationship between the couple is powerfully rendered. The love and bravery is described. The opening stanza suggests that there are lots of Indians attacking them and there's no hope. The loss of hope is underlined by the description of the rebels who are dehumanized. They're swarming like bees and howling like wolves. These metaphors suggest the number and savagery of these rebels. The repetition of gained shows that the rebels are relentless and inevitable. The poem presents the traditional racial stereotypes between the civilized westerns versus of course the uncivilized savage Indians. Now we're introduced to the key characters scheme in his life. She's pale due to fear and she's left without a name. Her only significance is as an appendage of her husband. They've clearly planned the suicide pact as she asks if the time has come. Scheme takes charge and tells her it has. It's a very traditional picture of patriarchal authority. It revels in the stereotypes of masculine authority and female submission and obedience. We're given the dialogue to make them more real and immediate. In response to her question of how much it will hurt, he replies that he wishes he could take the burden from her. However she then replies saying I wish I could bear the pan alone. This produces a stereotype of the Victorian brave wife. Moreover she then goes on to encourage her husband to be brave. Courage dare she says. She's very much a brave partner and one who is active in their choice of suicide. The description of the actions repeats the word close. First describe physical intimacy and love that they share and then to describe Scheme raising a pistol to his wife's head. The reader is given a shocking contrast between the closeness of love and suicide. The poetic voice erupts with exclamation. God forgive them this to show that a probrium heaped on suicide but in this case is presented as brave. They end by kissing each other and saying goodbye just before the moment of the gunshot and the suicide. The dialogue in the stanza does not clearly delineate which person is speaking. It suggests instead that at the end they're so united that the voices are indistinguishable and the readers left to admire the love and bravery. The next poet to be aware of is a birthday. So this poem is divided into eight line stanzas each with an irregular rhyme scheme. The poem is spoken by somebody who's found an intense and perfect love which they want to celebrate. The poem says that the true day a person is born is the day when they meet the person they love. This is when they really come to life. This love could be for a lover or for Christ. The images suggest spring time and could refer to Easter and Jesus's resurrection. The first stanza is a series of repetition of my heart is like each simile attempts to describe perfect love. However the fact that she keeps adding more new images suggests that each one is inadequate in describing the beauty and passion that she feels. The poem seems to say that words are unable to express perfect love the similes are all natural.  The images span different types of nature they include different senses of hearing and sight as well as ideas of abundance and nourishment. However by the end of the stanza she's not yet explained how glad she is as her heart is more happy than all these because her love has come. The second stanza moves to man-made high status images which are the opposite of the first stanza. Here she describes a birthday feast to celebrate her love which is full of precious objects. There is dais or altar covered in silk and veer which is squirrel fur. The purple dais suggests something royal the dolls represent peace and the pomegranates are a symbol of love in the perceptual myth and also of rarity and exoticism. The peacocks gold and silver are also rare commodities. Finally the fleur de lice represent the french royal family an arrogant part of the weaving of majestic and precious images to describe the feast with which her love deserves. The poem concludes with an explanation this must happen because her life has only just begun because she's now found love. Now when it comes to Maud Claire the poem is written in the ballad form of 12 standards of four lines however instead of the typical ballad rhyme scheme of A B A B Rosetti employs A B C B which makes it seem more awkward and full of tension. The poem dwells on the idea that marriage is not an ideal of fulfilled love. After the wedding ceremony Maud Claire interrupts the bride and groom. She's like a queen showing her indignation which makes her majestic while Nell's diffidence reduces her to the level of a village maid. The pre-existing relationship does not seem to have disguised as Sir Thomas's own mother knows the situation and advises him on it. This shows that such behavior is really common and ideals of married love are false and questionable. The mother tells him not to worry as the same thing happened to her husband 30 years ago in other words he was unfaithful. Clearly marriage has always been blighted by other lovers. Nell and Sir Thomas pale at this suggestion and seem not to take it well. Sir Thomas is pale from turbulent emotion while Nell is pale for embarrassment. Maud Claire presents them with gifts. This is appropriate for a wedding but she does not do it to celebrate but to humiliate instead. She offers Sir Thomas the half of the chain he gave her and the leaves are collected together. Each item suggests that they were whole only when together. The chain symbolically suggests that they've also been born together but not in a marriage ceremony. The intercourse has been in nature with naked feet in a stream plucking Lily's. The image is really sexual and informal showing that they have been intimate outside of marriage which of course is against Christian customs of purity before marriage. Lily's normally represent purity with the virgin Mary and the enunciation. Maybe they suggest that love could be pure and true perhaps. Do they also suggest that like Mary Maud is also pregnant. The leaves are an image of decay showing something which has not lasted. The lilies are budding now so there's new life. Sir Thomas tries to match Maud's emotions but his words are faltering. His lines have a caesura to show he breaks off and cannot speak to her. Is this due to guilt or love? He also doesn't know what to call her switching between Lady and Maud Claire. He hides his face showing his shame. She then offers Nell Sir Thomas's fickle heart and meager love. Nell responds with dignity. She takes what's left and says he's her lord for better and worse echoing the marriage ceremony. Doesn't scorn her husband but accepts and loves him. Her restraint is a stereotype of the good Victorian wife who's passive. She says her love and persistence will mean in the future he will love her more than Maud. These two women are polar opposites of each other.  Rosetti does not just say which woman she admires most but the poem is entitled Maud Claire which gives us a clue. Now when it comes to uphill the poem consists of eight questions and answers. The structure is typical in devotional verse as it gives the reader the opportunity to contemplate the open answer to the questions. The regular rhyme scheme of ABAB means each speaker is given a different rhyme to separate the voices. The consistent pace of the lines mimics the pace of the journey uphill. Each question is posed by a traveller to a guide. The guide expresses the traveller as my friend this is what Jesus called his disciples. The poem consists of an extended metaphor of the journey. The journey seems to be of life which is uphill and therefore consistently hard until one gets to the top. The question is whether or not the inn at the top is death or heaven. Is the traveller to experience some respite from this arduous journey? The traveller is concerned that they must travel all day until there's no light. The darkness could represent death or troubles in life. The guide reassures them that even in the dark there's an inn which can be seen. They're reassured that they'll meet other wayfarers who've gone before. The suggestion is that they must knock or call intimates that each person must look for and seek out comfort. This could be Christian confession of sin to gain admittance to heaven. The traveller is reassured that there's comfort and respite at the inn so that there will be an end to the arduous endeavor. This could be heaven where there's no more toiling uphill and others are there to be companions. Now when it comes to the poem no thank you John. The poem is written in dramatic monologue with an unnamed woman turning down John's proposal of marriage. The woman's character is remarkable in its frankness, sense of equality with the man in desire not to marry him. John's voice is only heard through the responses of the speaker. He's silenced so only her voice dominates.  The fact is it seems so odd at this time for a woman to reject a loving man showing how society, according to this poem at least, expects women to want male admiration. The first two stands as a question wondering why he keeps teasing her with begging.  John is depicted as subservient and also sick with love. He looks wane or pale like a ghost newly dead. Lovers made him unwell. She says she can't marry him and that he should not remain single. She suggests the names of other women who would take pity on him. This makes John seem very vulnerable and weak. His masculine power is removed by the speaker's apparent efforts to console him. John suggests that she has no heart outside the lines of the poem and she replies that if that is the case he's foolish to expect her to return his love. Her logic is cold and implacable.  She finally suggests in the masculine way that they should call a truce. This dictation is military and masculine suggesting a meeting of equals which will not be typical between the sexes and particularly at this time during the Victorian era. She recommends that John sees the day of sees the happiness rather of today and she'll turn a blind eye to what he said about love. This offers to save his pride. Her suggestion that they should strike hands is quite again masculine. She wants an equal friendship which does not expect ulterior motives. This means she's not playing games and is speaking quite frankly and openly to him. This is again untypical female characters. She finally offers friendship but not love. Her denial is polite with a no thank you. Her good manners suggest she's courteous and simply has chosen a different sort of female life. Now when it comes to Good Friday, this is a deeply personal poem addressed to Christ on Good Friday which reimagines a crucifixion happening again. She sees Christ bleeding to death on the cross and she's appalled by the fact that she cannot wait for him. She asks if she's a stone or a sheep.  It also eludes the Greek word for Peter which means rock. Jesus said he was his rock.  Her description of the crucifixion is also poignant.  She sees the drops of blood. Then the speaker remembers all the people on things which were removed which were moved to tears by Jesus's crucifixion. She emphasizes how many of these were by repeating the words not so at the beginning of each line to underline that others reacted differently to her. The women who love Jesus are his mother and Mary Magdalene who are both present at the crucifixion. Peter is one of the disciples who also wept while a thief being crucified next to Jesus was moved by his plight.  He then went on to found the Catholic Church in Rome and has crucified himself upside down because he said he did not deserve to die in the same way as Christ. Even more astonishingly the Son and Moon are personified hiding the faces from the side of Jesus's death by creating a eclipse in the middle of the day when Christ died. The third stanza ends with I, only I, to show she's the only person who is unmoved by Jesus's sacrifice. The final stanza brings hope. She begs to Christ that he should seek her out. She eludes the Exodus story of Moses. After taking the Jews from Egypt they were complaining of thirst and Moses asked God what to do. God told him to strike a stone with his staff and when he did so it erupted with water and quenched all the Israelites. The speaker says Jesus is greater than Moses and just needs to strike the rock of or her and then she will erupt with water or emotion and be able to feel moved by his crucifixion. The poem ends with hope but remains dependent on Christ coming to get her. Now when it comes to the goblin market this is a fairly detailed and very long poem. It's now starting with part one which is lines 1 to 140. The sisters Laura and Lizzie hear the cries of the goblin men selling their fruit. Laura is so tempted by the wares that she ghosts them and in exchange for a lock of her hair she gorges on the fruit. The narrative poem is written in an irregular rhyme scheme made up of loose iambic tetrameter which gives it a swift pace. This underlines the urgency of Laura's plight as well as the movement of the goblins through the glen. The speaker of the poem is often assumed to be Laura cautioning her children but if this is so then she is self-dramatizing. There seems to be a poetic voice which erupts in places. The title of the poem suggests that the focus of the work is both the goblins and the market or world of financial exchange. This is important as a goblin seem to represent male society or sexuality as well as the idea of a marriage market or women as financial commodities. The name Laura could be reminiscent of Paytrux Laura to whom he wrote his sonnet cycle. In the sonnet she's a passive object of love while here Rosetti makes her an active and sensual woman who seeks satisfaction. The name Lizzie could refer to Elizabeth I who had great phallic power and is seen as a dominant woman whose power rests in her unwillingness to lose her virginity. The poem begins immediately with the threat of the goblins who can be heard by maids or virgins morning and evening. This means the temptation is ever present. The goblins shout come by. It's important that they repeat this throughout. They're not offering free enjoyment they want to solicit solicit a contractual exchange in which they get something back from the maids. The fruits that offer are all ripe and perfect yet they are from different parts of the world and are harvested at different times of the year. This hints that the wares are not natural or wholesome. Some of the fruits are personified to emphasize the sense that they're sensual and bodily. The fruits are described as sweet to the tongue and sound to eye. They feed the senses. Laura bows her head to hair while Lizzie veiled her blushes. They're both attracted to goblins. Laura initially tries to resist calling a sister to lie close and not look. Laura goes on to dwell on the origins of the fruit wondering what soil cultivated the hungry thirsty roots. These images of phallic suggesting that it is potent male sexuality which may come from a forbidden origin which she does not understand. Throughout this section Laura's head is repeatedly described as golden and glossy. This whole shadow is a lock of hair she must exchange for the fruit. It also suggests her unwillingness or rather her willingness as her head is constantly attracted to them. Is the emphasis on head also fell because it implies that Laura is aroused by the goblins?  Therefore it's not that Lizzie is not aroused by them it's just that she does not succumb to this temptation. However Laura is curious and she lingers. Sometimes curiosity is seen as a female sin but it's important to note that Laura's own identification of the more of the story is not something negative but rather a positive belief in the importance of sisterhood. The goblins are repeatedly called merchants so their selling is important. They're then described in really animalistic terms as cats, rats, snills, wombs and so on. Does this perhaps suggest that all men are bestial in their desires or that these goblins are a particular type of sexually threatening men? This is left unclear. Laura is described in a number of stanzas using lists of similes. These change throughout the poem. In line 81 Laura is like a swan, a lily, a branch and a vessel which has broken from its anchor. These images are both of purity but also transgression. When the goblins find her their brotherhood is emphasised and the ways they are layering at each other. They see her as a delight that they can share. They display their fruit but Laura has no money. She's very firm about not wanting to pearloying their wares. She's afraid of being a thief therefore she's concerned to have a fair exchange with the men but they are not honest merchants. They request a lock of her hair. This is reminiscent of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope in which the cutting of hair is symbolic of the loss of virginity. Laura cuts her own hair and weeps more rare than a pearl. Pearls are usually symbolic also of virginity. Then she's sacked their fruit globes. The image is deeply sexual as it seems to suggest fellatio and the juice is sweet and strong. The verb to sark is repeated again and again. She's not describing a stewing or eating. This makes Laura appear out of control, childlike or even sexually voracious. All she's left with is a kernel stone. Again this seems to be a testicular reference or possibly a suggestion that the experience has hardened her. The stone is significantly inedible. She's left with nothing which will sate her. She leaves inebriated. Knew not was it night or day. The men disappear and she returns home. Now moving on to part two lines 141 to 319. Returning home Laura is reminded of the tale of Genie by Lizzie. Genie ate the fruit and then wasted away and died. Laura begins to long for the goblin fruit but unlike Lizzie she can no longer hear their cries and therefore can't access what she needs. Instead she pines and dwindles. Lizzie is waiting to meet Laura admonishing her that twilight is not good for maidens. This suggests that as light diminishes virginity is threatened. She reminds Laura of Genie who after eating goblin fruit pined and pined away seeking them but neither were finding them again. She prematurely aged and died. Her grave is infertile and no grass grows there or daisies. This suggests that Genie lost the opportunity of becoming a sexually fertile married woman because of her treased with the goblins. Laura tells her sister that she ate but her mouth watered still.  The experience has not sated her. It's actually created an appetite. She offers to bring Lizzie fruits the next day so that she can be done with sorrow. Therefore briefly Laura is happy. Together the sister that sleep like two pigeons in one nest. The unity is not diminished by Laura's intercourse of the goblins. They remain as close. Indeed the similes which describe them still refer to Laura like snow and ivory. These are images of virginity and impurity. Does this therefore mean that she's not lost her maiden head but has experienced a sexuality outside of penetration focused on female pleasure? Even nature wants to ensure they have a good sleep and so that owls avoid flying. The next day the sisters do the work as usual but Laura is longing for evening when she can return to the goblins. Note that their work and their home is significantly without men. They seem to live outside their patriarchy. Why is this world outside of men? Why are the only male figures ravening goblins? However when the evening comes Lizzie can hear the goblins but Laura cannot. They go to collect water. Water could represent washing something clean but it's also an image dripping arousal. Laura wants to linger but Lizzie fares rain will drench us through or they might get lost. Her fares are strange as surely these things have already happened to Laura. Laura is distraught as she cannot regain her pleasure. Her tree of life drooped from the root. This is an image of detume essence. It appears that Laura cannot find her sexual potency and it's odd now the potency is described wholly in phallic terms. As she goes home Laura's jug of water is dripping all the way. This suggests that she's aroused but without an outlet for her desires and that night she weeps. From then on Laura looks for the goblins but she can't find them. Her hair grows gray and she starts to die. She desperately plants the stone kernel but will not grow. She has been blighted with sterility. Also she can't create a root which again suggests her inability to arouse a phallus. Laura is imaged through a simile as a traveler in a desert who's thirsty but only sees mirages of oases. She stops doing her domestic jobs. Lizzie wants to share her sister's pain but she's afraid to pay too dear. The image of financial exchange hair is used to underline the terrible consequences transgression could inflict on a woman. Lizzie is reminded again of Jeannie who should have been a bride but for who Joyce Brides hoped to have fell sick and died. This seems to say directly that it's Jeannie's enjoyment of sexual pleasure outside a marriage which kills her. It's now moving on to part three lines 320 to 446.  Lizzie seeks the goblins and offers them a silver penny.  Lizzie keeps keeps her lips sealed while she is attacked so nothing penetrates her. Frustrated with her the goblins disappear after tossing back a silver coin. When Lizzie realizes Laura is close to death she no longer worries about the risk to herself and putting a silver penny in her purse. She seeks the goblins. In Elizabethan times a silver penny was slang for female genitalia. She goes to find the goblins. The goblins laugh at her when they see her. They described approaching her with a series of active verbs which showed their enjoyment as well as their energy. They're often active in the poem while women are conventionally passive. Meeting Lizzie the goblins immediately touch her. They describe their fruits using the possessive pronoun hour which makes it sound like part of their body. They offer an apple first which reminds us of the Garden of Eden. At line 362 Lizzie appears to interrupt a sales talk. Instead she takes control of the transaction. She's active not passive. She holds out her apron for them to fill and tosses them her penny. Interestingly because she tossed the penny she doesn't touch them. She remains intact and distant from them. She establishes a fair economic relationship but the goblins don't like her contract. They want her to eat with us. It's important that the goblin fruit is not really the location of the evil. What they want in a purient and voyeuristic way is to watch the women eat the fruit. This suggests that they want to watch women taking pleasure. This must be an exchange of female masturbation or rather an image of female masturbation and a reference to male pornography and the exploitation of female self-pleasure and bodies. Pornography is also a financial transaction in which a woman's body is sold. However Lizzie breaks the transaction but by ensuring it is she who pays and who refuses to pleasure herself in front of them. When the goblins refuse to sell her the fruit unless she eats with them, Lizzie demands her penny back. She's confident in her rights as a consumer. She's not to be exploited and at this point the goblins begin to abuse her. They start by calling her names and then they physically molest her. She's being attacked for not participating in the patriarchal game of women as objects of pleasure for men to exploit. However as they abuse her they try to force a fruit into her mouth. Lizzie is described with the cities of similes which liken her to lily in a flood, a rock and a tide, a lighthouse and a storm, a fruit tree beset by wasps and a town besieged. Each image makes Lizzie powerful against her assault. She's depicted as impervious. Many of the images are also quite phallic, the rock which is blue veined and the beacon especially. Lizzie's reluctance to open lip from lip is a yonic image of her refusal to be penetrated by men.  She's covered by the juices of the fruit which drip and splash in a face like her. This is an ejaculatory image, the fruit juices are semen. Wary with her resistance the goblins fling back her penny and disappear, importantly not leaving root or stone or chute. Each of these is a phambolic image so despite ejaculating over her they have not satisfied the phallic desires. So now moving on to part four, lines 447 to 567.  Now Laura hates the fruit but having eaten it she goes through a kind of death and in the morning she awakes well. Later the sisters are married until the story to their children. Using it to teach the moral there's no friend like a sister. When Lizzie leaves her encounter, Rosetti repeats the line, she knew not was it night or day. This suggests that although Lizzie has resisted their penetration she's still taken pleasure from the event. Moreover she's done so without paying for it. She returns with her penny intact. She runs home not pricked by fear. She's unafraid of the phallus.  Eat me, drink me, love me. The image of love is again one of consumption but this time Lizzie offers a contract for free. She gives the sister fruit not because she wants anything in return but because she loves her.  She rips off her clothes and becomes active leaping around. The poetic voice erupts from into the poem with the pronouncement are four to choose such part of a soul consuming care. This exclaims against Laura's gorging this time on fruit which is bitter to her. She fell at last. Laura falls this could refer to her moral fall. She passes the night as if dead but in the morning she awakes with her innocence returned to her. Her hair has gone from being gray back to gleaming gold. This could be a religious resurrection with Laura as a christlike figure. The final stanza reassures her that they experienced did not harm the sisters. They married and had children. Laura tells the little ones of the goblin men and how her sister saved her but there's no friend like a sister. Interestingly the moral of the tale is not against transgression but to approve the bravery and companionship provided by the sisterhood. It's a celebration of female solidarity and courage. The next generation learns this lesson. Now when it comes to the poem twice this title refers to the act of offering her love which occurs twice with two different outcomes. The structure of this poem uses lots of repetition to emphasise that the act could not be repeated because the male lover fails to accept her.  Perhaps it is him who's not mature enough for love. The poem suggests that men are often to blame for relational difficulties even though traditionally much is blamed on women. The poem opens with the female taking her heart out to give to him. The heart is a metaphor of love but not just romantic love. It seems also to encompass spiritual love and love of oneself. The echoed voice saying oh my love shows the death of her passion for the man. She speaks him to for the first time once hear me speak to profess her love.  She concedes that conventionally it should be the man who speaks and not the woman because women's words are meant to be weak but clearly he's not spoken and her supposed her to take the lead. Her bravery and unorthodoxy rather are not rewarded. He takes her heart in a friendly way suggesting he does not love her but may have misled her into loving him. He scans her heart with a critical eye. They shows that he judges her. There's not a loving act. He discards her love by setting her heart down. He tells her that she's too immature for love and is not ready. He employs natural metaphors of the heart as an unripe fruit and the necessity of waiting for a harvest. His words could disguise his own unreadiness for love or they could suggest that he does not understand or appreciate her or that he's simply cruel in response to her love. As he puts her heart down he breaks it. She remains brave and does not flinch. Instead she smiles at his words. Her bravery and restraint are almost stereotypically masculine. Her self-respect keeps her from letting him know the damage he's done. Since that time the many negative words show us that she does not smile or enjoy nature. Once again she gives her love. This time she gives her heart to God. She gives him her broken heart to make good again. She asks him to judge her. Notice that she never asked for the man's judgment but she got it anyway. She explains hope was written on sand. This metaphor shows that she knows her love was impermanent and could be easily obliterated by the tide. She asks God to perfect or refine her broken heart and using a metaphor from metal smelting she asks him to use the fire to take away the dross and keep the gold. This will undo what the condemned or scornful man has done to her. It will resolve the ruined day he made her of her life. Once God has helped her she can take back her heart and live again. She offers her love to God knowing he will smile to receive it. She concludes that she shall not question much. Therefore has she become a more forthright woman than the one in the beginning who thought her words were weak? Now when it comes to the poem Winter My Secret at the beginning of this poem someone seems to have asked her to reveal her secret. The rest of the poem is a response to this request saying she will not reveal it. There are lots of questions in the poem which could suggest the uncertainty of the speaker or simply emphasize the curiosity of the questioner. Note that Rosetti dwells on the perils of curiosity in other works. The speaker uses a personal pronoun many times throughout this poem. The repetition of I underlines her strength of character and a strong sense of her identity as something she wants to protect. She's as metaphors of the seasons to describe the untrustworthiness of the world and whether or not she is therefore in a position to reveal the truth. Does this suggest that her world is unfriendly and cruel? Is it his winter and is it too dangerous to venture into openly? At the start of the second stanza she suggests that there may not be a secret at all and that she could be joking. In this manuscript form the poem was entitled Nonsense. This might imply that there's no secret and that the focus of the poem is more about the relentless curiosity of the questioner. She goes on to describe the current world as nipping and biting. These personifications of the times are predatory and cruel trying to consume her. She has to retreat into disguises with veils and cloaks and wraps. This hints at the clothes or social conventions that can be used to disguise or conceal the truth of a woman and that society does not allow women to reveal themselves fully. She imagines herself indoors sheltering from the cold where she will not open the door to any person who knocks. She describes a time of danger outside herself and the necessity to keep herself safely removed from others. She even compares the current world to the snowy waste of Russia where people die from exposure. She refuses to test the goodwill of the questioner in case they wish to peck at her. Again the images are of consumption. She fears being eaten and destroyed if her secret emerges. In the final two stanza she looks at other seasons which might make it easy for her to reveal the secret. However spring is not to be trusted as its brief and its flowers can be destroyed by frost. Spring is imagined as vulnerable and ephemeral. Finally she pictures summer but her description is so specific it seems impossible. There must be not too much sun or cloud and wind which is neither still nor loud. This suggests there will never be a season appropriate for a woman to reveal her secrets that the world will never be perfect for her. Now when it comes to the poem Sir Louise de la Miséricorde the poem is set in the historical period of Jancyism which is an austere Catholic movement of the 17th century of France. The movement encouraged renunciation and living in religious orders. The speaker is a former royal mistress of Louis King Louis who presided between 1661 and 1667 called Louise de la Valière who has become a Camillite nun to renounce her sins called Sister Louise of Mercy. The poem is a dramatic monologue spoken in the voice of the nun called Louise. Despite being sequestered the nun is tormented by the desire and longing and this has wasted her life. The stanza opens suggesting that she's both desired and being desired.  Her days of desire have been ended by becoming a nun but ironically she's still clearly full of the emotion of desire even though she has been removed from it. She uses the metaphor of a fire for her desire. The word is repeated in every stanza to reiterate the inescapable nature of her longing. Her aging body is described as dust and dying embers which laugh at her desire. The persistence of her desire is ridiculous because she's too old and too locked away to enjoy it. The image of dust is reminiscent of the funeral service suggesting that she's near the end of her life. She wonders what payment or recompense hire she has had for the life she's lived. Each stanza ends with an exclamation of vanity of vanity's desire. It's an outpouring of emotion which royals against desire she cannot stop feeling. This line alludes to Ecclesiastes from the Old Testament, vanity of vanity's all is vanity which says that all human endeavors are pointless. This line is a refrain showing she cannot escape the emotion. She juxtaposes the long vowel sounds of longing and love with the crisp alliteration of perished pleasure to show how quickly her love has been destroyed. She creates the neologism disenkindled to show that her fire was once alive but has now been undone. The word kin is also hinted at which implies that due to her religious life she's been denied, she has denied her family and children. She had five children by the king but was tortured by her conscience all the time. The word Maya is repeated to show that her memories cannot escape from the muddiness of her remembrances of passion. Her emotions are hyperbolically expressed. Her love has become a fountain of tears perpetually overflowing. There's no end to her passion and misery. Now brings the reader back to her present misery. Her heart is dying. The stanza suggests her past quite all penises. The trickling could be an ejaculation whilst the idea spent desire implies that her sexual experiences happened and left her bereft. Another phallic image is evident in the prickles of the rose that her life has become. Her life in anonary has destroyed her because it's thwarted her desire and made her unhappy. Finally she laments that her desire has prevented her from retaining a greater relationship with God. This is an image through the metaphor of a garden turning to sterile mud. The phrase death struck plays on the expected phrase love struck to show that her life has been blighted by something deadly instead of life giving. The fact she ends in the same exclamation shows that her thoughts have not progressed since the beginning of the poem and thus she has failed to resolve her emotions. The end of the poem has the speaker still unhappy and trapped in the motion of desire. So that's all. 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eligible for this program or you have to have met these very specific criteria but we do have the work that we've been doing and I shared with you last year around that logic model we developed for the summit program at we've been doing that we did it with the reach program at the high school and it's as well and that really helps to define who are the students that are served by this program what are their needs and then how do you plan for those needs and in the logic model you can see that we say what are the needs what are the practices evidence based practices that are matched to those needs so whether that's DBT which is one of the outcomes for summit was to look at for students who have anxiety what is an evidence based program for that and DBT was that and so then staff got trained in school based DBT and that's part of their program profile so we've been doing that work with WDECO since 2015 and kind of working our way through the programs at the different level in the high school as I mentioned that was not reviewed as part of this evaluation and that recommendation to create that we have those materials though we haven't they did have a very specific recommendation around doing something very similar with our related service providers and that's what we have been doing that during that early release time that we get for Tuesday afternoons so again the budget implication for that you're going to see the request for the consultant program oversight and staffing this was very specific to who do staff report to who are the supervisors and evaluators this is largely dictated by the collective bargaining agreement who supervises and evaluates and it is shared by the special ed coordinator for that level and the building principal or their designee in the secondary level it may be another administrator and they recommended which we've been doing since 2014 the continuation of the monthly meetings that I have with both with each principal as well as that special education coordinator so that we can go over issues specific to that building alright questions Mr. I didn't catch the time on the IEP is it specific who delivers the service as a teacher or TA and how many are being involved in that service? So when you have a grid so you would see a service delivery grid and you're going to have both the service like the goal area the service and then the service provider so in that the personnel who are responsible so what may say a special educator and a TA or a TA if we have a speech and language pathologist assistant they might so it's indicated for each individual student is it possible for just a TA to be delivering a service? Yeah a TA can deliver instruction they cannot design I understand that and I assume there will be somebody supervising the delivery so the special education teacher is the one who's designing the instruction that they're delivering and they're the ones who are still ultimately responsible for the supervision for the collective supervision that comes through the collective bargaining agreement but the day-to-day supervision the evaluative part of the delivery of the service part my second question if I may you mentioned before legal consultants for administrators what's being provided for that? Our legal council did presentations one of the recommendations was around training for specific special ed regulations so this summer I shared with you last year some of the training they've done on site but this past in August we solicited questions from administrators in advance of our retreat and two of the attorneys from Stoneman Chandler Miller our law firm came and did a presentation around questions around 504 what were some of the other topics a little bit on I mentioned we were doing one on the Medicaid expansion let me be more specific does it talk about liability with delivery of service or is it a workshop so that they understand what's required so student discipline bullying investigations what the regulations require us to do and what that looks like in practice I'm sorry Thank you Other questions? Well thank you for this update so I guess my comment would still be we want to fund more to help you and it seems like there's a lot of the piece here Impression Development and a piece over here and you know this and a piece here for consultant but you know we're not we're not in the budget being written but it would be good to see that in the narrative somewhere that there's these 10 pots of money that are all going towards improving our inclusion practices just so we can see that as an initiative that the district is pursuing even though it is all spread out across these different areas Dr. Ellis-Hampy As I was listening to this I was also thinking that we could use language like that also as we bring our budget request to the town that it feels like it's harder and harder to draw a fast line between this is special education and this is regular education like the coaching where do you put the coaching and stuff and I feel like we need to we're going to have to talk about whether we can continue supporting this idea of a hard and fast learning when so much of more of it is falling into gray areas because that's the better way to serve our students but it would be helpful to have that in your narratives like the things that you were telling us about how what the coaches are doing so that it's easier for me to remember if I read it too so I can speak with Julie Dunn and Michael Mason around Just in support of that the idea of inclusion and co-teaching blends this in but they're required by statute as well so that impetus is there it is gray but there is still the regulatory requirement if an IEP says that a child will be included and such and such we've got to do that and that's the choice on that aspect and so we have to pay for it and the idea is that in co-teaching the classes are generally smaller so I think what we look at is the composition of the class in general and so we have been at the high school able to create smaller cohorts but my point is that requires more general ed teachers where you saw that implication was both general ed and learning and the training that general ed teacher into the special ed aspect of that thing again which budget does it come out of so currently right now the special ed department is funding that consultant to work with both the general educators and the special educator thank you thank you all right so Mr. Mason is not able to attend tonight so people have a budgetary discussion most of anything but if you have the documents and you have any questions you can email for the monthly financial report that's next we do have the monthly financial report but if anybody has any questions send them to Michael I did notice that he updated the transfers that was the one change that I noted so he did actually move the money around to reflect where things were hitting this year so that's a good update so next Mr. Schlipman the superintendent search consultant okay on the 15th we had a meeting which we had some really good conversations with the two members of the subcommittee as well as Mr. Hayner was there so we had really thoughtful discussion around the text for the RFP and although authorized to move forward because it hasn't hit the streets yet I'll offer a motion to approve the RFP and then outline a couple of highlights in the RFP second okay so if we take a look at the first page under scope of work overview I want to emphasize that around C and D one of the things that we're looking for is very extensive community input this is something we've done in the past this is a hallmark of what we do as a committee when we did the give school we had very extensive community input moving forward and we're emphasizing the needs to have as many constituencies as we can identify as participants and the search process management I will highlight a couple of the dates as it's our intent to hit the streets with an add no later than September 18th the closing date no later than October 16th with our goal of selecting a new superintendent by December 17th of course the text is there unless it's mutually agreed upon by the school committee and the consultant which gives us the opportunity to move things back if we need to but these are the target dates we're advertising in RFP so that any consultant we're hiring is aware of that down to the fourth page under selection process again I want to emphasize the fact that we are looking to make sure that there is a diverse body of community members who are going to participate in the process all the way through and back another couple of pages to minimum evaluation criteria this is the part that's most important for us now our goal is to have a selection made of an consultant no later than March 26th so that we will be looking at a window for presentations by potential consultants in a window between February 24th and March 12th those are the highlights I think that we have been pretty explicit in what we think our community needs in terms of a search process we are very committed to having an open and inclusive search process and hiring a consultant who will help us to deliver that for the community Mr. Heiner? I don't say this enough I think you did a great job thank you Mr. Dillman thank you my question is so we are hoping to hire the search consultant by March and that means in April May June of this year they would start the community conversations April May June so that all the documentation and reports will be ready to go in September so as soon as we get past Labor Day we can go hit the street with a with all the documentation relevant to the job description to the desired characteristics right after Labor Day so that's the reasoning behind our time will there be when during this timeframe will there be a meeting with the school committee? that will be a part of it we're just setting forth the basic so of course the school committee is going to be approving all the final steps through here approving the search committee approving the documentation basically anything that is a decision is to be made it's the decision to the full school committee that's our job so my question is is there going to be a point while the consultant is meeting with different groups will there be a time where they meet with us? I'm sure that's certainly an important part of it that's under the section C including but not limited to elected and appointed town government officials I saw that I just wanted to make sure we were one of them seeing the consultant it was for us will it be a separate meeting? it depends on what we want to do we don't have to decide the parameters this is basically the framework the outer boundaries for what our expectations are once we hire the consultant we can work with them to further define the process so that we can have the input that we want in terms of the initial criteria great any other comment questions? all those in favor? any opposed or abstentions? unanimous thank you for your work on this second did that? I did all right superintendent's report Dr. McNeil will? yes so I have a couple of announcements for some events that are coming up the 2020 regional high school art show which will take place at the lexington arts and crafts society gallery the arlington high school visual art department is pleased to announce that over 60 arlington high school student artworks are part of a regional high school exhibit at the lexington arts and crafts society gallery if people this event will take place this Sunday January 26 from 1 to 3 p.m. all community members parents and friends are welcome there will be plenty of parking and refreshments are provided the dress is casual and there is a flyer that I have right here and I'll make sure that I can get it out to the community as well I'd like to also highlight our students and the art department in particular in david moore's digital photography course which students were selected to show their work at the griffin museum secondary school photography exhibition at the carney gallery regis college fine arts center in weston during the month of january arlington high school student jameson sparks won a prestigious third place award in 206 regional high schools and 104 students participated in this juried exhibition the sponsor of this exhibit the griffin museum in winchester offers workshops and courses in photography and honors local and national professional photographers with exhibitions so I'd like to highlight student jameson sparks congratulations and I'd also like to highlight one of our david moore a photography teacher at the high school he has been selected as an ap teacher panelist for the 2020 ap art and design standard setting david teaches to ap studio art courses at arlington high school only nine art teachers nationwide were selected for this important panel ap art and design standard setting will be conducted at the renaissance tamper international plaza hotel for example florida all travel and lodging expenses will be covered by the college board and panelists will receive a 1500 honorarium for their participation I'd like to also highlight an event that will take place this saturday is the annual battle of the bands it will take place at the regent theater doors will open at 7pm join us for a night of live music performed by seven fantastic student bands and a special appearance by arlington high school arlington high school's own teacher band the educated guest proceeds will benefit save the children and their support for child refugees around the world advance tickets are $15 you can get yours during all three lunches on friday tickets will also be available at the regent theater box office for $18 the night of the show this is a very exciting event we don't want community members to miss out and that concludes what I have to share thank you consent agenda all items listed are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member makes a request the item will be considered in the normal sequence approval of warrant warrant number want to pull the trip approval of warrant warrant number 20140 dated 114 2020 total amount 487, 645.10 approval of minutes regular committee minutes So it's just the warrant move to move the warrant second all those in favor. Hi. Any opposed or abstentions? None. Okay, it's unanimous The trip are we holding it because it's probably a new trip or I've got a quay. Are we on to a new form? I noticed it was quite lengthy and yeah, little cumbersome to go through it.  I'm still gonna vote to approve it, but I'm just curious. My question was whether it's actually a new trip or so a new trip has to be presented Whereas a repeat trip can go into the consent agenda and it wasn't clear from the form whether it's a new or Repeat trip. Okay. Remember we're seeing one like this. Yeah, I have a substantive question I know one of the things we've talked about many times with these trips is that while Arlington Public Schools Helps facilitate communication and provides a meeting space to parents that these are not Arlington Public School trips per se, right? They're not we don't sponsor them and I had a problem and I'd never seen this language before if you look under That the very end of that very long thing that's been pasted and maybe a funny place Pre-trip prep in that very end It says that history teachers will be asked to mention the trip to their classes of Sophomores juniors and seniors and I don't think it's appropriate to require teachers to mention a trip in their class time I think they can you know, we can send messages through emails and stuff like that But I think that being a requirement of the program is problematic in my opinion Okay, so let's find out whether It's a repeat trip that's a repeat trip and they can go back on the consent agenda if it's not Then we would want one of the teachers to come to present. Yes Definitely great. All right No policy changes subcommittee liaison reports budget so budget we met yesterday morning We discussed the financial reporting And we have some some specific changes to make to the Reports we also discussed a budget book What else did we discuss we discussed lots of things mr. Mason was unable to join us, so I'll be communicating these things to him Was there anything else that we need to mention? I don't think so at this point We'll be meeting again later, but we have to do policies and procedures Nothing no report See I she's not here community relations. I need to get Kathy first before okay Facilities I will be making a facilities presentation to the Dowland PTO on January 28th at 7 p.m And the Odyssey and Gibbs PTO on February 4th at 7 p.m Great anything from the building committee. We have a public hearing on Tuesday February 4th at 7 p.m in the high school auditorium and we'll be Explaining the phasing of the project and it's a good time for incoming 8th graders 8th grade parents coming into the high school On high school parents to come to the meeting as well as the butters great May I just also say that mr. Thielman sent out an email pertaining to the More technical description of the geothermal and very appreciative of that I've had to give credit to Ryan Katowski Okay calendar committee We have a meeting scheduled Election monitor should be listed on here, but election modernization committee We have another meeting next. We had a meeting that I think I've told you about yeah Superdiner search process we just heard from nothing on negotiations. Are there any other announcements or liaison reports? Yes, missus, so I went to a wellness committee meeting which I it's been interesting and heard from the nurse at Dallin Who is piloting a program? To sort of restructure the way that the great body shop is taught and and to bring some of the material That was taught in the fifth grade, you know the sort of that stinky talk that people talk To fourth grade and in very age appropriate and then me and then maybe think about how fifth grade is going to be treated differently Cutting out things like I'm talking about the endocrine system, which Students don't quite get and in a very age appropriate way talking about issues of Consent gender identity and expression You know gender Sexual preferences, but in very you know the way she spoke about it was very it felt very very age-appropriate. So That's very exciting happening there. There's discussions about whether that will be a Suggested curriculum change and I said once they work everything out They will come to us, but they're not there yet. So just to tell you it's on the horizon Great Anything else this was announcements to you correct? Yeah, so I didn't hear the Acap I can't pronounce it Festival to belt out cancer the fourth annual is tomorrow at here at the high school 7 p.m. To 9 30 It's a benefit concert to raise funds for the Catherine J. Malatista Foundation Whose mission is to fund research into cures for sarcoma cancer And it also remembers Catherine Malatista of Arlington who died at age 16 after a seven and a half months Month battle with epithelioid sarcoma Yes, great. Thank you for mentioning that any future agenda items All right, we don't have any executive session great I got a motion to adjourn so move Second all those in favor


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What's up I don't like to mess with that stuff over there because I'm afraid I'm gonna just Press the wrong button and the computer's just gonna explode Walker Kessler Raider Rookie got lights out Luka bones Forgot bones is a clipper. That's a weird. That's weird Hollow Denny of Dia. Thank you. Take you on Nimbar Raider Rookie. We have one green Raider Rookie Palo Bancaro Magic There you go 119-149 Believe these are little dust spots here. I'll have Dylan wipe that before we get that in a mag for you Micah Orlando, I don't think I said Micah Joe Joe M on that one. There you go Very nice. Let me know if those don't come off. It's Kyrie. I think they're just dust though. Oh, Brunson Moody. Yeah, Justin. I don't know. I usually trigger people when I say I don't like LeBron for some reason and then trigger them Even more when you say that MJ is the goat. Yeah, the rookie's hollow Jabari Smith, Jr. Did it? Okay. Awesome. Yeah, that was just dust on the Palo. Thankfully. So I'll get that in a mag for you Max Christie Raider Rookie Hollow Lakers. Lakers have been solid so far this morning. Oh, is that you Micah? Joe, awesome Got Jalen Williams Raider Rookie basketball Raider Rookie of Jabari Walker Nice second basketball Raider Rookie. I think we've played today Melton, I think it looked pretty clean, didn't it? The centering looks decent, too The centering like has been, you know, back and forth if it's, you know, a good center or not See redemption is gonna be a Kenneth Lofton, Jr. I don't know why for a half a second I thought that said LeBron. I was like, wait, what? Grizzlies, what is that? Blue on that one. Nice. That'll be I believe to 49 Grizz, he's been like a Lofton magnet. I'm gonna pull some nice Lofton cards Chet Raider Rookie. I'm gonna roll the dice here. One, two, three. Bless you. Left, four, five, six Right. That'll go for the rest of the break unless it's a one-on-one Three. That's gonna go left. We've been left, right, left. To the left. Take it back now, y'all Three times on the wizard. Oh, that's awesome, Steve. Roddy, we've got another basketball Hornets this time. Lamello ball. There you go, Charlotte. Very nice. Great first box here. Hollow K.P.J. Baldwin, Jr. Stargazing LeBron. I'll turn her Get a lot of people who agreed with me on the LeBron today. I like it. It's not used to that. Diabate. We got gold. All right, Remoyers, you ready? I love gold. Let's see. Let's see. Show me a Raider Rookie. I don't think it's a Rookie. Bolts. Shack Town. Anthony M. Bolts. It's gonna be the Caruso. Nice Alex Caruso there. Gold. That is one out of 10. First printed. Very nice. So now we just need a green and we got a whole rainbow going today. 30-folded gold vial. Dang, we've got red Kyle Kuzma. Wizards to 99. That's awesome, Micah. I wish I would have been able to. Paulo Ant-Man. Yeah, I've got some from my dad's collection. Jabari Smith, Jr. Raider Rookie. We've got orange Jeremy Grant for the Blazers to 199. I have one of his cards. I couldn't tell you what set it was from, but it looks super clean. It was really cool. Lights Out Hall of Derosen and Osumu. It's not numbered out of 10, but it says one of 10 on it. I think it was like a set of like 10 different. You know, I'm not really sure. It's from like 93 to 94. I think it was my birth year. So I think it was 94 and it looked good. So I sent it out to Brennan to sell it and it came back a nine, which is not bad for being a 20-year-old card. It's like one of those like sentimental cards I always keep. I thought it was really cool. Palo on the base. We've got Lyme Green of Alec Berks for the Pistons out of 149. It's Dean's PC right there. Alec Berks. Buddy Heald. Miss Who on the Lakers Mark. Oh, Caruso, I'm assuming. LeBron Dominators. Kiehl's Booker. Damba Lakers card. That's so funny. Caruso. We have a Photon. Drew Holiday. Come on. Shall we read a rookie Photon? I don't think so. Grizzlies. Let's see. It's going to be a Desmond Bay. Nice. It's a very solid Vets coming for the Photons. We have Hollow Dennis Schroeder. Tatum. That's Williams Jr. Read a Rookie Orange. It's going to be a Benedict Matherin. There you go. Pacers. 183 of 199. Nice. Yeah, see like some of the centering on these are pretty off-center, but others are like spot-on. It's kind of back and forth that I've seen so far. I think the Palo looked pretty decent, didn't it? Reset. Hollow. Jaden Hardy, Raider Rookie. I'm going to go left with Bucket. Samba. Elite Dominators of the MVP. MB. Hollow LeBron. Nice one there for the Lakers. Lakers are like probably the most like solid team so far today. I would say that's been hitting some nice parallels. Keegan Murray, Raider Rookie. Raining threes. Luca Al Horford. Steady. That's where it is. We're very steady team so far. Hollow Ben Simmons, Middleton. Sohan, Raider Rookie. We have Blue. Celtics is going to be a Robert Williams III. That is 22 of 49. Soren Morris. All-star is going to go left with Yanis and the Bucks. Matheran, Raider Rookie. Stargazing, Cade, Caruso. Hollow, Christian Brown. There you go, Nuggets. Nugs. Ty Ty. We've got Orange Staff, Curry. There you go, Warriors. Second one of these we've seen today to 199. We have Wizards. A Johnny Davis based Raider Rookie Auto. Washington there. Lights out, Curry. Cade. Last pack of box two. A.J. Griffin. Here we go. Box three. Still looking for that gold auto. Gold auto and a green. That's what we need. Let's see what probably sold out. I think there was one team left. Yeah, we are sold out for basketball. Awesome. So now we've got to work on Bowman's Best. Still a bunch of teams left there. We've got White Sox, Reds, Rockies, Tigers, Astro Stargers, Brewers, Phillies, Pirates, Padres, Giants, Blue Jays, Nationals. Shade on Shark, Raider Rookie. Black Velocity, Warriors. Splash, Bro. Number two here. Clay Thompson. That is eight of 39. Nice one there for the Doves. SGA Base. Bang Threes, Jordan Pool. Malachi Branham, Raider Rookie. Star Gazing. Jalen Green. Lights out to Rosen. Another Photon here. Josh Menott Base. Got T-Wolfs. It's going to be a Mike Conley on the Photon. Mike Conley. We've got to see a Raider Rookie Photon. Come on. So yeah, y'all. Basketball all sold out for today. Cam Johnson on the hollow. Got one baseball break that's got spots. It's going to be an eight box full case break of Bowman's Best. Like Baji, we've got basketball of Ludort for the Thunder. We'll be topping. Then we're going to move into some football. Again, I'm pretty sure all remaining teams for the rest of the day are on sale. Siakham Hollow. For football, we've got a four box Phoenix hobby. Pick your team style. Durand Raider Rookie. Dominators in bead. And then after that, two six box half case breaks of contenders football. Hollow Elite Dominators. Garland. Again, those average five autos per box. So 30 autographs coming out of that break. Jabari Walker. We've got blue lights out. Donovan Mitchell for the Cavs. One of 49 there. So yeah, still some great breaks to hop into today. Teams on sale. Austin Rivers, Teeples. He's really bounced around. I feel like he's never utilized enough wherever he goes. Pink Velocity is Will Barton for the Wizards to 79. Hollow All-Stars left. Correct. Rolled a three, I believe. LeBron for the Lakers. Edwards. Yeah, almost positive his left. Yeah. Isaiah Mobley lights out Yolkich. Yeah, the 30's still sitting right there. We have Hollow, Austin Reaves for the Lakers. Ben Simmons. Jones, Johnny Davis, Raider Rookie Hollow. Looked nice next to that auto because he's doing well with their rookie. Bochamp. We've got Orange for the Spurs. I've Keldon Johnson to 199. Siaka. To 49, as I say that. How about another Johnny Davis rookie auto? This time the rookie optics autograph. There you go. Wizards heating up here. Raining threes. Mitchell. Jamal Murray. Watch back. Box three. Harry. Left with Deonis and Halburne. All right. Johnny Jamal. Yolkich. Black Velocity. Nice color match here for the Nets. Dorian Finney-Smith. That's probably one of the coolest color matches I think with Black. The Nets. That's really cool. 29 and 39. Besides the magic, of course, but I'm a Bias Magic fan so I don't know if my opinion counts on that one. Hollow Ringo Bear. Hollow Raining Three. Steve Kerr. Now we got to pull the Steve Kerr auto. He is in the autograph checklist here. You have red. Poor Zinkus for the Wizards. Man, Wizards. To 99 on that one. Hit all the Johnny Davis. Now we're getting some vet hits here. Hollow Yovitch for the Heat. Bogdanovitch. Houston. We have basketball. Pelicans of Jonas Valencunus. Norlitz. I have out of 99. We have Elite Series Auto. Scotty Barnes. Eagle Raptors. Is that a bonus second auto in this? I think so. I think this is an extra auto out of this box. Eagle Raptors. Nice. What is that? 30 year now, isn't that so weird? This is weird. Mavs. Luca. We'll take that, though. A couple base Urchies, I believe.  Right, that's what I'm saying, Steve. Hopefully the palo isn't too much or maybe I'll just pick up like Colanthony and some Wagner of those. Rui. Hollow. Kind of weird seeing him in the Lakers jersey, too. Yeah. Penny Hardaway is going to go left for Magic. Brown. It's like I feel bad for some of these kids that have like elite talent, but like they just go to such a crappy team and just not, you know. I mean it's not like an all-star like crazy, but like he's a good player, you know. Got a black velocity rated rookie here. I see some red. It's going to be a Christian Coloco. There you go. Raptors. Nice box here for the Raptors. Barnes Auto in black velocity. It's 38 of 39. Couple off of that jersey number. Close. I'd have to look up what the Palo basketballs are going for right now. They're probably crazy. Dean Whitty Hollow. Have to wait a couple weeks for the optic market to cool down. Coloco. Hello Tobias Harris. I don't think I have, well, besides the one I pulled out of the prison monopoly, I don't think I have any Palo work. Harris Martin. We've got a tie-tie Washington Jr. on the basketball rated rookie. The Rockets and the Leak Beasley. Hollow, Damian Lillard on the elite dominators. Williams the third. Last pack here. Drogonam Liddell. Raining threes. Buddy Heald and Connell. Ike Box. Five here. Roddy Pink Velocity of a Dame Dollar here for a Portland to 79. 80 bucks with two days left. Yeah, it's kind of crazy because it's not technically a short print. You know, it's definitely a harder hit. Yeah, I bet that probably ends close to about $200. If not more left on that one. Close money thing. We've got MPJ on the Orange for the Nuggets. $199. Hello, Kenyan Martin Jr. Connington. And Bard. We've got Slime Green, Evan Fornie for the Knicks to $149. Hollow, SGA. Harry Eason. Hollow Elite Dominators, SGA for the Thunder. Hollow Dylan Brooks. All to one junior. We've got Red Lights Out. Nicola Jokic, $65.99. All right, gotta ask. What do you think about him getting a check? Pushing the Sun's owner. Hollow, Isaac Acoro. Like, I agree. George Smith Jr. I'm glad he didn't get suspended because I think that would have been a stretch. Yeah. Orange, Kelden Johnson for the Spurs, $67.09. Dude definitely shouldn't have held the ball like that. Like there was no reason. I honestly think Jokic didn't really mean to push him like that. Grizzly's Jaw.  It was like a LeBron. Walker Kessler. Make a left. So I think I agree with the tech, but I don't think it was as bad as people blew it up to be. Peyton Watson, Hollow Rider, Rookie Nuggets. Jenna Williams. We've got a basketball of Andrew Wiggins for the Warriors. The Redemption. Rosen, Horton Tucker. I'll save that for last. On the Rookie Base. We have Rainy Three's Heel and Grant Williams. All right, let's see what this redemption is going to be. It is a Usmani Dang, Raider Rookie Signatures. Thunder on that one. Here you go. Okay, seat. Come on, let's see some ink here for Dean. Whether it's an Ivy or a Doran. Soha, Raider Rookie. Stargazing, Giannis. Hardy, Raider Rookie. Orange is going to be a Darius Garland, a 199. Hollow, Zach Levine. Oh, a Raider Rookie Base. Dominators, Ant-Man. Shruder, Lights Out, Hollow, Jason Tatum. Kiehl's. We have Orange, E.J. Liddell for the Pelicans on the Raider Rookie. That is 167, a 199. Hollow, Joellen Bede. We need to heat up here. Let's see some big color. Matheran, we've got another basketball here. It's going to be a Collin Sexton for the Jazz. Yolkich. We've got Stargazing, Hollow of Trey Young. Ty Ty, we've got Lights Out, Donovan Mitchell. Tatum. Jane Ivy Base. Some dust on that. Dominators, Kawhi. Rainy Three's Trey Young. Keegan Murray. We've got Orange as a Zion for the Pelicans to 199. Simon's. Bonus. We've got Hollow, Gary Harris. Allen. Hollow, Jalen Williams. Thunder, Raider Rookie, Hollow. Griffin, a Jaden McDaniels on the Black Velocity. That is 36 of 79. No, 39. Sorry, 36 of 39. 79 is Pink Velocity. Haven't seen an auto yet out of this, right? We did get two. Oh, never mind. We've got, for the Warriors, Raider Rookie Base Auto. Patrick Baldwin Jr. I was going to say, we did get a bonus auto earlier. Rainy Three's Dirk Clarkson. Off it's usually pretty good about right now. Getting what you promised. Last pack here. That promise. Let me not say that one, but, you know what I mean. Hollow, Kuzma, Cam, Thomas. All right. Quick recap here. We've got Botan's, Mike Conley, T-Wolves, and Desmond Bain Grizzlies. Pink Velocities out of 79. We had Damien Lillard Blazers and Will Barton Wizards. Blue to 49. Robert Williams to third. Celtics. Lights out Donovan Mitchell. Cavs. Black Velocity to 39. Finney Smith Nets and Gina McDaniels. T-Wolves. Clay Thompson Warriors and Christian Coloco, Raider Rookie Raptors. We had a gold Alex Caruso for the bowls. Our autos. Redemption Usmani Dang for the Thunder. Patrick Baldwin Jr. Warriors. Elite Series Auto. Scottie Barnes. I spent their Raptors. We had two Johnny Davis. We had the Rookie Optic Graphs and the Base Raider Rookie Grizzlies on the blue. Kenneth Lofton Jr. And the beautiful Hallow Bannock Carrow. Beautiful in there on the lime green. That is 119 of 149. Alrighty, that'll do it for the break. Thanks so much. We got number 20 coming right up.