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		<title>On A Journey Through the Past (Will I still be in your eyes and on your mind?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/11/02/on-a-journey-through-the-past-will-i-still-be-in-your-eyes-and-on-your-mind-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Young seems to be in a reflective mood these days. Now that his memoir is finished, he’s got his old tried and true band Crazy Horse back together again, and after recording two albums together they are on a tour that will soon be moving across Neil’s old stomping grounds of Canada. This seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Enjoyable Travel Essays</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/08/23/2876/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to highlight and compile a few &#8220;travel essays&#8221;&#8211;and I&#8217;m using that term lightly&#8211;that I have recently read and enjoyed, including two written by John Jeremiah Sullivan, whose essay collection Pulphead was a fun summer read. I also wanted to test Readability&#8217;s Readlist experiment, which seems to help blur the lines between publishers and readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Adventure</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/08/18/sierra-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With lightened packs for ease of travel, my brother and I set out for a five day trip in the John Muir Wilderness area of Eastern Sierras, part of the Inyo National Forest. Due to an early snow-melt, mosquitoes and black flies were only menacing, and only at times, in comparison to past experiences with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waving Goodbye to Norway</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/06/26/waving-goodbye-to-norway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently I wave a lot while enjoying the Norwegian outdoors, so I put together what I thought would be a fitting small video compilation of shots from Norway, including Rondane, Jotunheimen, Hardangervidda, the Lyngen Alps and various and sundry places near Stavanger. The song &#8220;Later Days&#8221; is by the Mother Hips.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Impeccable Anderson Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/06/25/another-impeccable-anderson-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every couple years I get to enter what I call Wes’ World, by buying a movie ticket and seeing the new Wes Anderson film on the big screen, as he intends them to be experienced&#8211;at least for the first couple viewings, and assuming there are several subsequent ones. It is hard to imagine another writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awkward Film Project Trailer</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/31/awkward-film-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 12:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last unit of 10th Grade English, groups created short films around the general theme of awkwardness. Students pitched ideas, wrote screenplays, participated in table reads, storyboarded, filmed, edited and screened their films, with interesting and awkward&#8211;both intentional and unintentional&#8211;results. Every group used iMovie and Celtx screenwriting software.]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast Episode 3: The Murakami Chronicles</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/10/podcast-episode-3-the-murakami-chronicles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third episode of our 11th Grade English Literature class Podcast Series, students discuss Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Part 1 (0:25-16:03): Cinthiya, Aidyn &#38; Rachel investigate the novel as agenre and the debate between how Japanese or Western Murakami&#8217;s style is. They focus on interpretations of a few of Murakami&#8217;s symbols, find some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laberinto</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/04/laberinto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 11th grade English class has been studying translated texts by authors&#8211;Borges, Murakami, and Marquez&#8211;who reference and use labyrinths as symbols in their writing, and we have been working with a semester thematic focus of &#8220;Narrative Labyrinths and Infinite Possibilities.&#8221; We decided to create a walking labyrinth outside. The guidelines for walking a labyrinth are simple: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural and Contextual Considerations in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/03/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/03/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 05:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a larger map This will be the final installment of our reflections on translated works, and we  we will use the same requirements as when we wrote about Chronicle of a Death Foretold and our discussions of J.L. Borges. We have discussed, journaled and podcasted about the following topics in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plays in Plays (What happens when fiction lives in fiction?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/29/plays-in-plays-what-happens-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/29/plays-in-plays-what-happens-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Borges to Cervantes to Shakespeare to Velazquez, many artists have produced works that ask the question of &#8220;what happens when fiction lives in fiction?&#8221; and experimented with the play-in-play, or painter-in-painting, or novelist-in-novel, and so on, ad infinitum. Shakespeare&#8217;s A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream is no exception, and in class we have been drawing conclusions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources about Knowledge (Can this title be more vague?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/28/resources-about-knowledge-can-this-title-be-more-vague/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/28/resources-about-knowledge-can-this-title-be-more-vague/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, Theory of Knowledge class has its limitations: 1. For some strange reason, we are forced to assess our students (One can sarcastically imagine teachers asking themselves, &#8220;How proficient are their theories about knowledge? Excellent, very good, or adequate?&#8221;), 2. As a class the meets regularly in a high school, students are inhernently disinterested, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murakami Chronicles</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/11/the-murakami-chronicles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some praise for Haruki Murakami&#8217;s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: &#8220;The disappearance of a cat, the return of water, a compelling mystery. A labyrinth you just can&#8217;t escape.&#8221; &#8211;Alex &#38; Selma &#8220;A unique and gripping adventure through the subconscious mind, giving insight into modern life. Murakami takes you to another world.&#8221; &#8211;Rachel &#38; Selma &#8220;Compilations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arts as an Area of Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/10/the-arts-as-an-area-of-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/10/the-arts-as-an-area-of-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arts is perhaps my favorite Area of Knowledge to explore with my TOK class, and in some ways the most controversial. As far as the IB Diploma Program is concerned, the Group 6 courses (Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, Music, Film) is the only group out of the six &#8220;required&#8221; by IB that is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural and Contextual Considerations in Chronicle. . .</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/08/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-chronicle/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/08/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-chronicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to say that five times fast. For our Chronicle of a Death Foretold reflections, we will use the same requirements as last time, when we wrote about our discussions of J.L. Borges. We have discussed and journaled about the following topics in relation to Marquez&#8217; novella: Analysis of time and place What was easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We Know from Our Emotions</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/03/21/what-we-know-from-our-emotions/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/03/21/what-we-know-from-our-emotions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Theory of Knowledge class we have been studying Emotion by investigating some statements and questions concerning this way of knowing. We began with novelist Arnold Bennett&#8217;s statement: “There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the [...]]]></description>
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