Playlist is Character...

Here is the slide with the annotation directions. Don't forget to do the playlist essay...300 words about the first 10 songs that pop up in your playlist and how they represent your character.
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Romanticist / Transcendentalists notes

For your viewing pleasure!!!!



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Students Declaration!

Here are the directions! Do Declare!

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The Age of Reason... reasonably speaking....

These are the notes that no one could find, because I didn't update the link!  And that is your technology tip for the day...always update the link.
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The Village

Q's here for The Village.  Remember Fear and Manipulation!



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Fun with water, ducks, and carrots...

How to tell if someone is a witch brought to you by Monty Python's Holy Grail...



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The Puritans...

Notes, notes, notes, notes, notes,...
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Ender will save us all...

Here we are kids, the last hurrah!  We are exiting this school year with an amazing novel, Ender's Game, the only novel to date that has won both the Hugo and Nebula Award for a Science Fiction Novel.  Here is the reading schedule in case you didn't have the chance to copy it off.  More good Sci-Fi stuff to follow.  Cheers!

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“Third”, “Peter”, and “Graff”: p. 1-26	Read on April 30
“Launch” and “Games”: p. 27-53	Read on May 3	Literature Circle Role #1 due May 5
“The Giant’s Drink”p. 54-65 “Salamander”: p. 66-96	Read on May 5
“Rat”: p. 97-119	Read on May 7	Literature Circle Role #2 due May 10
“Locke and Demosthenes”: p. 120-152	Read on May 10
“Dragon”: p. 153-172	Read on May 12	Literature Circle Role #3 due May 14
“Veni Vidi Vici”: p. 173-199 “Bonzo”: p. 200-226	Read on May 14
“Valentine”: p. 227-254	Read on May 17	Literature Circle Role #4 due May 19
“Ender’s Teacher” part 1: p. 255-277	Read on May 19
“Ender’s Teacher” part 2: p. 277-304 “Speaker for the Dead”: p. 305-324	Read on May 21	Literature Circle Role #5 due May 24

Rube Goldberg would have liked 451...

I found this fun video from the band O.K. Go that uses a super elaborate Rube Goldberg machine in their song "This Too Shall Pass."  Rube Goldberg was an engineer and artist that created machines to do mundane tasks.  You have seen his cartoon ideas everywhere including homage pieces like those found in Bugs Bunny cartoons and Wallace and Grommit.  He did them as a response to the encroachment of technology into our everyday lives.  Here's the video, its super fun, the link to the making of the video and a great article about it is at the end.
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OK GO Rube Goldsberg machine and article!

At what temperature does paper burn??? 451...

Here are the slides for the Journal Entries for those of you that might need a place to start.  I will be adding and revising what we have done here so stay tuned young cadets!

Farenheit 451 EAP Articles...

Here is a copy of the slides for everyone if you need the directions for the annotation of the articles.



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Gatsby online....

Hey, I thought that it would be good to give you busy teens an audio referance for The Great Gatsby. I updated my links. Here it is! Just follow the directions and you can play it at home or ipod or whatever!

Click the Link to get the book download for FREE!!!
http://greatbooksaudio.com/?cat=31

Here's lookin at you Old Sport!
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A picture worth a thousand words...

Hey all,
Remember when you just a little kid, still cute and not all weird yet with your bizare hair coloring and loud music. Well if you forgot, that is where I want you to go for our last assignment. Dig through those old photo's of yours and find one of when you were still young and at a upbeat time in your life. Follow the directions on the slides and submit the writing by Friday at the latest. The assignment can be turned in up until Friday. That is the cut off. Thanks!
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Fear and Manipulation in Salem...a love story...

Sorry that it took so long to get this out to you kids. Here are the charts that we came up with for Act I and II! They should help in the construction of the Venn Diagram.
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The Crucible

Honestly, who doesn't love a village idiot!...




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The Analytical Paragraph Q for Native American Lit.

Here it is folks!



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Puritan Lit.

Here are the slides if you didn't get a chance to finish copying them down.



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The Analytical Paragraph meets Little Red Riding Hood!

The question that was used had to do with "What is a key theme in the story of Little Red Riding Hood?"
Enjoy!



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Native American Short Answer Response

Here is a sample of what your short answer responses should look like. Remember to rephrase the question as your topic sentence, provide an opinion, and then support your idea with concrete evidence using the page # to support! It sounds complex, but really it isn't. Check the model here if you need it.



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End Game: Science Fictions Alternate Realities

Enders Game is a "gateway" book into Science Fiction. I hate to admit this, but the book sat on my self for almost half of the school year before I begrudgingly picked it up. You see, a student brought the book to me as a "must read" book. The student however, was a very persistant fellow and I eventually took the book home over an extended weekend to read. Best decsion that I have made in a long time. Orson Scott Card's universe of a distant earth is familiar, much like those universe's that I fell in love with as a child (Star Wars, Flash Gordon, Tron). Though Card's world is seen from the eyes of his young brilliant protagonist, Ender Wiggin. It is argued that he is the perfect character to hate and forgive all at the sametime, a walking oxymoron. As a reader, it is easy to simpathize with Ender, what kid has been the butt end of jokes and made to feel insignificant in a world of unfair rules and baised adult opinions. Ender straddles this dual world of unspoken rules amongest kids and the outward rules of the Battle School where he trains to possibly become the greatest General the world has ever seen. As we read through, we will be having much discussion of Ender's situation through several weekly themes. check out the Power point to get a feel for each day.