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I wanted to provide a few “visual illusion” links to some of the things we looked at in TOK class today (like the illusion above, which is in fact not an animation, except that our mind creates one).  This website has quite an impressive collection of them. Below I’ve also embedded a link to [...]

This article titled “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” from Wired Magazine is very interesting.  While some people argue that “Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into ‘bleak, bald, sad shorthand’,” still others–like Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University–are arguing that something good is actually [...]

I wanted to include some film ideas in this post that relate in some way to Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye.  First on the list is Will Smith’s monologue from the film Six Degrees of Separation, an adaptation of the play by John Guare of the same name.  In it, Smith’s character plays [...]

So begins Salinger’s now infamous The Catcher in the Rye, and Holden’s first clue to readers that he is going to stylistically mimic how we speak and listen to one another–thus he chooses to replace the verb “to read” with “to hear”–instead of how we write.
After the publication of Salinger’s The Catcher in the [...]

As my English A1 HL class begins to study Tim O’Briens’ In the Lake of the Woods, I came across this brief editorial for The New York Times that should provide another piece to the puzzle that we have been referring to as “the fog of war.”
The nation has finally heard a note of personal [...]

The purpose of our 9th Grade Writing Folders is to have a place for students to collect their written work–from process to product.   Now, as we begin to look ahead to next year, we should also take time to reflect on what we have accomplished this year.
In order to complete both of these tasks, [...]

Jason Santa Maria’s website is an art project in and of itself, but his specific post on sketchbooks was fun to read (be sure to click on the Flickr link in the post so that you can peruse examples of other peoples sketchbooks).
The point is to keep doing, it’s how you get stuff done.  And [...]