Profile of DJ Gregory, posted by Mike for response Comments

Here is a profile of DJ Gregory made for the ESPN series.

Please watch and watch actively.  Take a few notes.

• Look for images or details that others might not notice.
• Think about the questions being asked and the sources used to get this story.
• Listen for key ideas and notable things that are said.  Jot them down.

After watching the profile, use your notes and in the Comments section, respond by addressing these questions:

1) Share with us something from your active listening and viewing that you noticed that others may not have.  Something said? An image? Use your notes to share something.
2) What is the purpose of this profile? What feelings or ideas did you take away from it?
3) Connection to your life.  Does DJ remind you of anyone in your life? Do you have a friend or family member who has a disability or even a 'crazy' dream that reminds you in some way of DJ?

DJ Gregory on the PGA tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSHN5EB0v8

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Post Your Brainstorming and Questions in Comments here. From Mike Lohre.

1. Students, please post your four ideas for Essay One in the Comments section here, and then explain which idea you believe is the best and that you wish to pursue for this essay.

2. Also include two good questions that you might ask anyone in an interview.  Make sure they are not yes/no questions.

Examples:
* What is the American Dream to you? 
*What is one of the biggest challenges you have faced in your life, and how did you meet that challenge?

If we all brainstorm two good questions, then we can look at all of the questions in the comments here and put together a good list when we go out to do our interviews. 

Remember, every chance to write is a chance to write well!

Mike

Links for Bryson from Mike

Bryson, here are a couple of videos (one just a very popular song video made by profile filmaker Ben Dowden, the other a profile documentary on Dub FX).  Watch them and listen and watch the short documentary closely.

• What do you learn in this profile?  
• What images, clips, or photos stand out? 
• What things that are said are most memorable to you?  Why?

Put your comments in answer to these questions below this post in the Comments.  Thanks!

Mike

Dub FX and Flower Fairy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBoR_tgXCI  this is his most popular song on YouTube, done with another busker (street musician) named Mr. Woodside.

http://youtu.be/e7Fv0hB-R8A   this is the documentary you should write Comments for.

poem by Asiya

the poem about Philippe Petite  was good strangely I every wrote and very interested . My poem did not take me so long to write when I watch the video. I wrote in the class quickly I could write the poem. It was good experience to write Philippe poem.it made me write more poems. Revising was not hard while you started the poem. You will remember everything in your mind. Seeing someone up in the air, inspiring me, we could do more things. 

Looking Forward Dangerous life

 Philippe climbed New York Twin Tower in 1974.

Everyone though he was crazy, but

He was brave and faithful man.

Seen someone on the cloud,

Makes me emotionless

My hand was shriving.

When he climb on the top on of the building

My heart went down.

Philippe was tire and lack of balance

Imaging he f fall down,

It was sorrow, painful and sleepless.

Philippe moving his legs,

Everyone was in tier mind.

Looking Philippe was walking twin tower like airplane,

Makes me cold like cloud.

He said, “I saw my eyes went red.”

His legs was moving like toddler kid

Doing something like that he put himself a risk of death.

Poem by Liz Williams

The remarkable steps in which Philippe Petite took in order to achieve his dreams are more than noteworthy, however the steps that he took between the Twin Towers are ones of magic. My poem describes the steps that he took, the audience that he had gazing up at him and the extreme emotion that went into this extreme endevour. I decided to try and describe the time in which the event happened, my feelings toward it and the incredible outcome.

 
A Dream as Big as Two Towers
Once there was a man on a wire
Balancing between two towers in the air
Philippe Petite carried his entire life before him
Dancing and smiling without fear
With an echo of more than 1,000 cheering below him
He felt as though he were dancing on top of the world
The velvet coated audience was mesmerized and spellbound
Watching a once in a lifetime view most could only describe with a single word
He lifted the spirits of the New York people
For they had never seen anything like it before
I then realized the significance of his action
He broke down what was then an unimaginable door

Philippe moved with such grace and elegance
I thought as if I were watching a remarkable show
With the gods of wind, tower and wire on his side
Even the police could see his passionate glow
He was overwhelmed with the simplicity of his dream
Having absolute faith in his steps to come
As he walked on air and looked at what he had in front of him
He realized he needed this dream to live, and he devotedly succumbed.

Poem by alexis evans

In the start of my poem, I talk about Philippe Petit and the background infomation about the day he achieved the goal of walking between the Twin Towers. Then throughout the poem, I talk about the dream he had and how once the towers were still standing until the tragic day in 2001. Philippe is now famous for his illegal doing of walking between the two buildings. For my revison of the poem, I added a title which I made "Near to Impossible." I chose this title because it is a true title with this goal he once had. In everyones eyes im sure at the time it was near to impossble, but he proved them wrong. The other revision I made on my poem was to add more of my reaction to it by saying, "crazy in my eyes to believe something like this was even possible."


Near to Impossible

Just a normal day in the city
New York city
on the morning of August 7th, 1974
shortly after 7:15
1,360 feet below
there stood hundreds of people
astounded by what they were witnessing.

There was Philippe Petit,
who thought his dream was near to impossible
this dream of his was in fact to
be within the birds territory
high above in between the Twin Towers.

The towers that were once still here
standing tall
110 stories tall
the highest structure in the country
in 1974.

Here, in this very moment
crazy in my eyes to believe something like this was even possible,
now gaining fame for his illegal work,
the World Trade Center walk
Philippe achieved this immense goal.

Philippe Poem by Chazz

My poem for Philippe Petit was an interesting one to write. I actually didn't find it difficult once I began brainstorming of different ideas. The writing idea that I immediately thought of was to put myself or someone else in the event that had occurred on that August day. I wanted to imagine what it would be like to actually be there, and to react in a way that I thought was necessary. The revisions that I made to my poem was to add some better word choices, and more lines, and to create a title that would relate to the event.

Poem: That Brave Man Up There

1974

A clear August day

dashing down the street of New York

you suddenly hear someone say

“Hey look there’s a man up there”,

and you gaze in disbelief

observing from the bottom of the world trade center

How could it be?

More than 1300 feet

there stands a man in the air

a tiny little fragment of himself

who clearly had a dream

and lacked a sense of despair

and although his reason seems very unclear

“Hey everyone look, there’s a man up there”

Dancing, jumping, doing other tricks

How was it possible that he was doing something like this?

And yes, he was actually quite insane

But Philippe Petit was his name

"Fear is a lack of knowledge", Philippe would scream

and everyone in their life has a dream 

whether it's big or small,

it will fit somewhere along the seam

A French Trespasser to an American Hero by Nathan

     For my poem I wanted to keep the same style for each of my lines. I wanted to start the sentence with with either a A or An, and focus on one object at a time. I tried to expierment with my peom and see if I could make my poem enjammed, but when it was finished I wasn't as happy with the results as I was the finished poem. Another style I tried to use in my peom was no punctuation, instead I wanted the lines to be the stopping points for the reader. As par of my revisions I added who stated the quotes in the poem instead of just having the quotes by themselves. In addition I changed some of the words I used to expland the diction and added a few more lines. I hope you all enjoy the poem.

 

 

A French Trespasser to an American Hero

A dream to walk in the sky between two buildings

A goal to be a bird among the clouds

An idea that seem impossible

A strategy created by breaking into the twin towers

A complex plan with a bunch of simplicity

An obsession made a reality

 A rope 1,368 feet in the air

A fearless, fun filled, French man

A crowd of people gathered to watch from below

“An echo of people cheering and screaming” says Philippe Petit

A man on a rope for 45 minutes

A rope with a man crossing it 8 times

A view like no other in the world

A call to the police to make sure there is no splat

An officer greeted to a man floating in the sky

“A tightrope dancer because you couldn’t call him a walker” says an officer

A man trespassing on a bird’s land, and the knowledge that it’s time to leave

A crime charged with 14 misnomers, but all charges dropped

A French trespasser to an American hero

Pettit Poem by Rishat

This poem was written from the perspective if a New York City citizen. The poem describes the observation from the citizen who is 417 meters below Pettit, hence the name of the title. As I looked at the conventions, or the typical "rules" or "norm" of a poem, I noticed my poem was missing some of the conventions. I did not use much metaphor or figure of speech. My revised poem corrects that. I also have added a couple rhymes.

417 Meters Below

By Rishat Ahmed

Is it a bird, is it a plane?

No

It's a man!

But how can this be?

How can this man be floating in between

the Twin Towers?

This is impossible.

This man is possessed.

There is no way

a man could ever walk between two enormous skyscrapers

on what seems to be

a rope!

Why is he doing this?

He must be insane

or have damage to his brain.

Is August 7th some kind of fun holiday?

A daredevil day?

These are the two tallest buildings

in Manhattan,

in New York,

in the United States.

What is this?

My faint heart!

He was lancing,

and now he's dancing.

He's dancing like a joyful monkey.

It hit me what was going on

Why he was doing this

417 meters above the ground

He's in the sky,

massaging the clouds,

talking to the blue jays,

and fulfilling

his life desires.

 

 

 

 

Poem about Philippe Peite By Fathia

     The entire time I wrote this poem I just thought about what it would be like in his shoes. All the thoughts and emotions that he must have been feeling, and thinking about. I titled my poem Walking on Air, because I think that’s what the people below would have thought. It’s not every day that you get to see a person on the high wire.

Walking on Air

Thousands of feet

Above ground

Nothing in sight

Bu the gleaming building

Obstructed by floating clouds     But

Oh how beautiful it is!

Nothing has felt as

Right as this

The simplicity

The elegance

This is what dreams are made of.

The clouds are drifting away

Close enough to touch

Perhaps I should move along

The bird’s eye     Glaring

down at me

Never would I imagine

Walking across the sky

Fear is nothing

But a lack of knowledge.

It seems impossible

This task at hand

I wonder

What those below thought

It must have been beautiful

To watch

The man

Walking on air.

What a memorable day

That August day

Dream big      Because

Dreams are essential.

Bryson Twin Towers Poem

Bryson Applegate
Twin Towers Poem
9/11/2014

The idea behind my poem was to make it a simple and short read, and to capure the struggles that Phillip went through in achieving this goal. I wrote my poem in 4 stanzas and my lines short. I was hoping to caputer a dramatic and suprising tone, leaving lots of pauses and suspense leading up to the moment that Phillip walked across the wire. I chose 4 stanzas hoping to show a difference in subject changes.  My revisions included some punctuation changes to capture some more pausing and to slow the speed down. My last big revison was a line added in the second stanza to explain why Philllip had to use a bow and arrow to secure his wire between the towers.

Phillip and the Towers

 

The year was 1974,

Phillip Petit a high wire artist

Had passion

With a goal

Not one goal, but two

A walk between…

The Twin Towers

 

8 months of sneaking

Preparation and dedication

The moment arrived…

He stood on the South tower

With a bow and arrow in hand

The only possible way to secure the wire

It was time,

The wire was in place

 

1 inch of wire,

Between him and the pavement

He walked 8 times in 45 minutes

Smiling, dancing, and happy

Phillip danced…

On top of the world

 

Phillip Petit a man of bravery and dedication,

Surprised the world,

And inspired many

Justin Cygnor Philippe Petit Poem

Justin Cygnor

English 1110 @10:30

September 11, 2014

I decided to make my poem 2 stanzas long with 9 lines in each one. It describes the story of Philippe Petit and walks the reader through his journey. The first stanza talks about when Petit first identified the towers and decided to walk between the two.  As my revision to this stanza, I made the vocabulary stronger and added the alliterations "shaded subway", "sneaking and studying" and "scraping the sky". A metaphor included is "belly of the beast", which was also a phrase said by Petit in the documentary. The phrase "invading bird's space" is a figure of speech, describing how high he was over the city. 
The second stanza talks about the second half of Petit's adventure. Petit's hapiness, the crowds awe, and the charges against the act are all described. The reader can feel the intensity and excitement with the tone. In this stanza I also changed the vocabulary such as bewildered and unfazed. The phrase "desert island of his dream" was used in the documentary and describes how alone he was on top of the world. Passion, faith and focus was said by Petit, describing how he felt about his art of walking on wires I decided not to make the poem rhyme except for the very last line, which I named the poem after.

                                     

The Guy in the Sky

Out of the shaded subway tunnel and into the open

High above scraping the sky, the towers soared

Petit, 24, befriended the twins

and climbed into the belly of the beast

Sneaking and studying, he ascended to the top

Shooting his arrow with his bow, connecting the towers with a rope

7am, August 7th, 1974, invading bird’s space,

Philippe started over New York City

Walking, dancing, crawling, smiling

The crowd below with bewildered looks

Police on the south tower, speechless

Petit on the desert island of his dream

To the front page around the world

Inspiring others to believe there can cheat the impossible

Passion, faith, focus, keeping him in the air

Later charged with 14 misdemeanors, his happiness unfazed

Set free and into Central Park

Philippe Petit, the guy walking the sky

Poem by Courtney Shaffer

In the beginning of my poem, I tell the story of Philippe Petite and give information about the event. Things like, what he did, where he did it, and when he did it. My writing and idea process was to let people know the story, by adding figurative language to keep to audience interested. The very last stanza shares my reaction to how I felt and how he affected so many others lives. In my revision I had to add a title since I forgot, and I also added the last stanza about my reaction then. My poems goal is to try to make people think and realize that what Philippe did is so amazing and will never be done again.

He Was Not Afraid

Philippe always said

Dreams are essential.

At 6:00 on Tuesday August 6^th

Everyone’s eyes were above them

As Philippe was looking down to them

1,360 ft in the air

In between the twin towers

People were looking up at him

In awe

As if he were the father of the twins.

He had a smile on his face

while everyone was thinking

“Impossible”

He felt as if

they became his friends

He was overwhelmed with a sense of simplicity

Looking up to Philippe

like he was a diamond in the sky

he made me feel like

not only me

but the people around me

could all conquer our own dreams.