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We have been having some interesting discussions in TOK investigating language as a way of knowing. As I pointed out last Friday, it seems like we are more interested in focusing on the problems and limitations with language, instead of trying to explain its benefits. But we also had some interesting ideas to share about [...]
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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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Indeed, it’s that time of year again. I’m reminded of this post that I wrote last year as yet another season of “College Hunting” officially opens. Several students have alluded to the fact that they are in search of Letters of Recommendation from me, and I wanted to post some instructions for how to obtain [...]
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I am republishing a list of “Holdenesque Films” that I complied almost one year ago. Suggestions and additions of movies that have that Holden vibe are also appreciated in the comment box below:
In my junior classes we have discussed why the novel The Catcher in the Rye has yet to be made into a film, [...]
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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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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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Tom alerted me to the Google Homepage on June 6th, and I snapped a quick screenshot of it, but then forgot to post it until now. I think the page was in honor of the birthday of Velazquez, but it’s also a pretty cool Borges connection or, as I like to call it, “When [...]
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Indeed, it is that time of year again. Please be prepared on Monday to review for our English finals, and come with your Second Semester Final Review Sheet, your trusty Source Book, and lots of questions. Below are some helpful resources and reminders.
Handouts from class:
Class Evalutations (for all classes)
IB Second Semester Final [...]
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All First Period Filming will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, during class (at the end of the period), during lunch, and after school (in the library). All cinematographers and actors must come to contribute.
Also, don’t forget to stop by the library after school tomorrow for Mr. Robert’s and my little going [...]
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. . . or is it the other way around? I wonder which Borges’ stories these movies remind you of? There are six in all, so click on the “continue reading” at the bottom to, well, to continue reading, but really to continue viewing.
The Fall, directed by Tarsem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvU3PMFo6ek
Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo [...]
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For Monday, be sure to read both Borges’ nonfiction essay “When Fiction Lives in Fiction,” as well as John Barth’s infamous essay “The Literature of Exhaustion” (1967), and come prepared with highlighted ideas and marginal notes. Both of these are included in your Borges packet, and below is what we should look for as [...]
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I always like to bring up the idea of the internet, hyperlinks, Google, Amazon.com, etc., as comparisons to some of Borges’ more complex ideas, specifically when looking at “The Library of Babel” and his ideas about infinite information. Searching and networking technology is constantly emerging that seems to expand upon these ideas, and [...]
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Below are the flowcharts that I painstakingly made for each class (with a lot of help and guidance from my friend who goes by the name Weana), based on your choices from Friday. There might be a bit of reshuffling, but I tried to reorganize some of the roles into larger groups. For [...]
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I wanted to post links to some articles that I have either mentioned, or articles that we have read as a class that relate in some way to our study of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
“Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations,’” by Adam Liptak
“Bad Connections,” by Christine Rosen
Today’s personal technologies, particularly [...]
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Check out some of Mr. Glass’ digitalized poetry at Shampoo Magazine and Digital Artifact Magazine, and be sure to peruse his clever music reviews and interviews at Dusted Magazine (his reviews of the Themselves’ album The No Music and Alias’ The Other Side of the Looking Glass are two of my favorites).
And here are [...]
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