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As 11th Grade English A1 classes develop their presentations on In the Lake of the Woods, I wanted to provide some resources and examples of effective presentation techniques, with the hopes that students (and possibly teachers) will continue to experiment with creative ways of presenting their ideas electronically. By far the most useful site [...]
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As we begin to experiment with what I call “journaling” as a means of creating sustained thought through sustained writing in my English classes, I wanted to post some Peter Elbow ideas that I find relevant and useful, especially because he focuses on the idea of private freewriting–including what it looks like, and the benefits [...]
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An interesting debate provided by The New York Times:
. . .some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, [...]
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Mr. Bender went the self-publishing route (which works well with his self-aware novel), and now you too can own a copy from CafePress.
One smart reviewer describes the work as such:
“This clever, metafictional, meticulously constructed work carries strong echoes of Eco, Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace.”
Congratulations are in order for Mr. Bender–for working hard to publish [...]
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A fun Picasso / Velázquez / Borges / Modernism inside joke:
Jillian was kind enough to send this my way. Her uncle is an artist, and one of his friends recently gave him this painting.
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I wanted to post some of my pictures of my brother Stephen and my six-day backpacking trip through the Western Sierras, which turned out to be a wonderful mixture of adventure, rejuvenation, natural beauty, and some hardships (I have never experienced worse mosquitoes than we did on the first two days of our trip–in fact, [...]
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Does this explain my sleepy 5th period? It is certainly reassuring to think so. I always thought it was a combination of teenage food comas (exacerbated by the consumption of Mira Loma’s mysterious nacho cheese goo) and my boring lectures on Modernism. But the Spaniards have it right, and oh do I [...]
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The last few weeks of school have been an intense experience, mostly because the idea of leaving a school that I love to teach at has become a reality. My emotions are, as one says, “mixed.” It seems that for me each school year that I have taught has gone by faster and faster, [...]
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The Mira Loma Chinese Club is currently organizing an Earthquake Relief Fundraiser. Please see below:
On May 12, 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck the province of SiChuan in China. The death toll is estimated to reach 50,000. There are also over 200,000 people injured and billions of dollars in property damages. [...]
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Are you interested in being in the greatest movie about our school of all time? Then follow this link to the Club Soda website to see what the Mira Loma Film Club is up to. Here is a special message from Russel Sprouts:
Hi, my name is Russel Sprouts. I’m a future filmmaker. But I [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6grpxYOqQ
“When I was called Doctor, it was like an affirmation of everything that my mother had believed. Because I think that the way I interpret Doctor–it means you are someone who helps humanity in your own way . . . try to find meaning and value beyond what affects the body. [...]
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A not so subtle reminder that the IB Visual Art show will be at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center on Gibbons Drive, from April 5 through April 10. The reception is on April 5 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. and everyone is welcome. This is a wonderful opportunity to view the work [...]
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“Maya Angelou Celebrates her 80 Years of Pain and Joy”
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
This seems fitting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA34a0kaco8
“Still I Rise”, by Maya Angelou
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This season’s selection of plays by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival includes Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. From the pictures, it looks like a spectacle, which I think is the way Shakespeare intended it:
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