Walden poster
Dead Poets Society--Transcendentalist ideas in Robin Williams most well-know film
Walden Poster--50 points. 25 for the photo, 25 for the writing
Due Monday after Thanksgiving break. Tuesday we will judge all of the posters and the top three will receive extra credit. Do a good job!
Here's what I need you to do for the poster:
1. Find a meaningful quote, preferably one that isn't quite so common. Top scores usually (but not always) go to those.
2. Take a photo that illustrates the meaning of the quote. Spend quite a bit of time coming up with the concept for your photo before taking the picture. Although this isn't a photography class, do your best to take an artistic photo. If you need help, go to the Internet for ideas. You may get help from someone, if you would like. Remember, you can learn how to do anything if you just Google it or YouTube it!
3. Type 1/2 - 1 page, single-spaced, explaining how your poster illustrates the idea in the quote. This page will be displayed with your poster. Please put two of the most important sentences in bold so that we can quickly get the gist of what you are saying.
As you watch Dead Poets Society, I would like you take 3/4 page of notes identifying ideas of Transcendentalism found in the film.
"We don't read and write poetry because it is cute; we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race and the human race is filled with passion" Pain, love, beauty hope--emotion--are the things of life
We create our own opportunities for making life extraordinary.
Carpe diem--seize the day--live life to the fullest. Set high, private goals and make them happen
Savor words and language. There's a deeper meaning.
There is a Higher Way found by seekers
The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse to the great poem of life.
"Only in their dreams may men be truly free; 'twas always thus, and always thus will be"--Keating
"Rip it out.. . we're not laying pipe . . . think for yourselves (come up with your own interpretation of the poem]"
"We don't read and write poetry because it is cute; we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race and the human race is filled with passion"
"Carpe diem"
The class itself illustrates individualistic approaches to finding meaning
"Only in their dreams may men be truly free; twas always thus, and always thus will be"--Keating
SAT Vocabulary --50 Terms with example sentences
Learn "spawn" to "tantalize" for Friday
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When you get your PSAT scores back, don't throw them away!
You will receive your scores December 10th and need to bring them to me on the 11th
IF YOU DON'T BRING YOUR PSAT SCORES YOU WILL HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER PSAT PRACTICE READING COMPREHENSION TEST
Thoreau's radical theory of education
Page 33
". . . you do not mean that the students should go to work with hands instead of their heads . . Roger's penknife from his father?"
Changing Education Paradigms--Sir Kenneth Robinson
Do Schoools Kill Creativity
Bring on the Learning Revolution
Life is Your Talents Discovered
How to Escape Educations Death Valley
Walden. You are not required to read the entire book.
1-52
53-64
206-216
10 other pages of your own choosing. For these pages, I would like a 1/2 page summary of key ideas that you will share with the class. Be sure to include at least 2 quotes.
Challenge words for honors students who are willing to go beyond the mark and study things that don't actually earn you points but which make you effective communicators and strong readers. No, you won't be tested on these. Are you willing to study them?
SAT Vocabulary--10 Terms
1. Focus on the individual--you are unique in this universe and "you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
2. Nature is the Great Teacher.
3. There is a Higher Way--a spiritual aspect to life that you can get in touch with (Walden)
4.Heart over mind; intuition over calculating power of logic
5.Live in the moment
6. There is beauty in disorder. Life is a mystery that you may understand to an extent on an individualistic level
7.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Monday
Walden Quotes
Today you are to select one quote from Walden and to tell me what that quote is saying to you. Start off with a sentence paraphrasing the quote and then discuss what the quote means to you personally.
You will repeat this assignment Wednesday and write a third analysis for next Monday.
1/2 page. One of the three needs to be a full page.
SAT Vocabulary --50 Terms with example sentences
Learn "spawn" to "tantalize" for Friday
Challenge words for honors students who are willing to go beyond the mark and study things that don't actually earn you points but which make you effective communicators and strong readers. No, you won't be tested on these. Are you willing to study them?
SAT Vocabulary--10 Terms
Today you are to select one quote from Walden and to tell me what that quote is saying to you. Start off with a sentence paraphrasing the quote and then discuss what the quote means to you personally.
You will repeat this assignment Wednesday and write a third analysis for next Monday.
1/2 page. One of the three needs to be a full page.
SAT Vocabulary --50 Terms with example sentences
Learn "spawn" to "tantalize" for Friday
Challenge words for honors students who are willing to go beyond the mark and study things that don't actually earn you points but which make you effective communicators and strong readers. No, you won't be tested on these. Are you willing to study them?
SAT Vocabulary--10 Terms
Friday, November 14, 2014
November 14
Americans' lack of compassion for Ebola Victims
Ebola Service Project ideas. You all have editing privileges to add ideas and resources to this Google Doc.
Ebola Service Project
HOMEWORK: Read pages 7-14 of Walden. I'd recommend reading ahead, too. During the next 9 days you are to read:
1-53
54-64
206-216
and 10 other pages of your own choosing
Ebola Service Project ideas. You all have editing privileges to add ideas and resources to this Google Doc.
Ebola Service Project
HOMEWORK: Read pages 7-14 of Walden. I'd recommend reading ahead, too. During the next 9 days you are to read:
1-53
54-64
206-216
and 10 other pages of your own choosing
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
November 10, 2014
Susan Olvera Flores "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince[ss]: | |
| And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" |
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...
https://twitter.com/olvera_susan/media
Angel, by Sarah McLachlan
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Thoughts Concerning Susan
Aaron--
The Bonds Between Us
The bonds between us are best shown when we are grieving. With heavy hearts do we remember the moments we have shared with those dearly departed.
What binds us together may just be a string of coincidences, or conversations in passing,
or it may be deeper--a friendship or memories that've been forged together.
To lose someone, no matter the bond, will begin the grief.
To lose a person,
To lose a daughter,
To lose a student, a classmate, a team mate.
To lose a friend.
But in facing the cruel hand of death, the hand that has whisked away one we loved, we cherished,
We have nothing more to do than stand together, and strenthen the bonds.
The bonds that hold us together through the dark and the light,
The bonds that hold us together when we are grieving.
The loss of soeone so great, such as Susan Olver, is incomprehensible. Though I did not know her personally, I know of her benevolent personality and how it graced all those around her. As we mourn our loss of Susan, let us cherish the memories and moments she has shared with us.
Angel, by Sarah McLachlan
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Thoughts Concerning Susan
Aaron--
The Bonds Between Us
The bonds between us are best shown when we are grieving. With heavy hearts do we remember the moments we have shared with those dearly departed.
What binds us together may just be a string of coincidences, or conversations in passing,
or it may be deeper--a friendship or memories that've been forged together.
To lose someone, no matter the bond, will begin the grief.
To lose a person,
To lose a daughter,
To lose a student, a classmate, a team mate.
To lose a friend.
But in facing the cruel hand of death, the hand that has whisked away one we loved, we cherished,
We have nothing more to do than stand together, and strenthen the bonds.
The bonds that hold us together through the dark and the light,
The bonds that hold us together when we are grieving.
The loss of soeone so great, such as Susan Olver, is incomprehensible. Though I did not know her personally, I know of her benevolent personality and how it graced all those around her. As we mourn our loss of Susan, let us cherish the memories and moments she has shared with us.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
November 6
Americans' lack of compassion for Ebola Victims
Ebola Service Project ideas. You all have editing privileges to add ideas and resources to this Google Doc.
Ebola Service Project
HOMEWORK: Read pages 7-14 of Walden. I'd recommend reading ahead, too. During the next 9 days you are to read:
1-53
54-64
206-216
and 10 other pages of your own choosing
Ebola Service Project ideas. You all have editing privileges to add ideas and resources to this Google Doc.
Ebola Service Project
HOMEWORK: Read pages 7-14 of Walden. I'd recommend reading ahead, too. During the next 9 days you are to read:
1-53
54-64
206-216
and 10 other pages of your own choosing
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
November 5
Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death--easier to understand (hyperlinks)
The Masque of the Red Death--easier to read
The Wikipedia info on The Masque of the Red Death is actually pretty good
HOMEWORK: Finish the story at home
5 point quiz at the first of the period
As you know, Miller was writing about the communist witch hunt perpetrated by Joseph McCarthy and others in the early 1950's. Miller himself was accused, as were many of his fellow actors who were blacklisted in Hollywood. In the film The Majestic, Jim Carey portrays a blacklisted actor who stands up for truth in precisely the way that Miller wanted his contemporaries to do.
The Majestic
The Masque of the Red Death--easier to understand (hyperlinks)
The Masque of the Red Death--easier to read
The Wikipedia info on The Masque of the Red Death is actually pretty good
HOMEWORK: Finish the story at home
5 point quiz at the first of the period
As you know, Miller was writing about the communist witch hunt perpetrated by Joseph McCarthy and others in the early 1950's. Miller himself was accused, as were many of his fellow actors who were blacklisted in Hollywood. In the film The Majestic, Jim Carey portrays a blacklisted actor who stands up for truth in precisely the way that Miller wanted his contemporaries to do.
The Majestic
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
November 4
SAT vocabulary list 1 (from another teacher's deck on Quizlet)
Some of you might want to review The Crucible considering that you have a test over the play tomorrow. The test isn't as difficult as some (think Scarlet Letter!), but still . . .
Sparknotes: The Crucible
As you know, Arthur Miller's The Crucible isn't historically accurate. Modern science still has a difficult time explaining exactly what happened to the "bewitched girls," but here are a few theories: What Really Happened in Salem, 1692?
As you know, Miller was writing about the communist witch hunt perpetrated by Joseph McCarthy and others in the early 1950's. Miller himself was accused, as were many of his fellow actors who were blacklisted in Hollywood. In the film The Majestic, Jim Carey portrays a blacklisted actor who stands up for truth in precisely the way that Miller wanted his contemporaries to do.
The Majestic
Here's a 4 minute version, but it's missing the very important final 30 seconds! Oh, and it's in French, so . . . Majestic
Some of you might want to review The Crucible considering that you have a test over the play tomorrow. The test isn't as difficult as some (think Scarlet Letter!), but still . . .
Sparknotes: The Crucible
As you know, Arthur Miller's The Crucible isn't historically accurate. Modern science still has a difficult time explaining exactly what happened to the "bewitched girls," but here are a few theories: What Really Happened in Salem, 1692?
As you know, Miller was writing about the communist witch hunt perpetrated by Joseph McCarthy and others in the early 1950's. Miller himself was accused, as were many of his fellow actors who were blacklisted in Hollywood. In the film The Majestic, Jim Carey portrays a blacklisted actor who stands up for truth in precisely the way that Miller wanted his contemporaries to do.
The Majestic
Here's a 4 minute version, but it's missing the very important final 30 seconds! Oh, and it's in French, so . . . Majestic
Monday, November 3, 2014
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