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Macbeth Act 5 Quiz Hints

January 20th, 2009 by Mr. D. Sader

1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 “riddles.”
2. Thermoptic Camouflage
3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency.
4.
5. Lex Caesarea??
6. Lady Macbeth’s “slayer.”

Macbeth Act 4 Quiz Hints

January 20th, 2009 by Mr. D. Sader

1. Strange Brew
2. Cop Killer
3. “Your father… was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force.”
4. I got a mojo, too.
5. A Confessor?

English 20 Final Exam Poll

January 19th, 2009 by Mr. D. Sader

Macbeth Hints: Act 3 Quiz

January 16th, 2009 by Mr. D. Sader

1. “No less material”
2. “Under [his] thumb”
3. “Kids Wanna Rock”
4. “when the President does it, that means it’s *not* illegal!”
5. “It is common for people today to question how any leader can be a tyrant who achieves office through popular election, and, indeed, who remains popular.”
6. “Cinderella Story“

English 20 go into the dark to see the light

December 2nd, 2008 by Mr. D. Sader

We’ve been asking questions about the world.
Some have read Plato’s Cave Allegory.
Our discussions have tried to be more philosophical. Kierkegaard’s leap into faith and nihilism a bit.
We seem to return always to our four postulates:

Something can come from nothing,
God exists,
Humans have immortal soul,
Humans have free will.

We have all watched The Truman Show.
We created and responded [...]

While you read…Brave New World

September 9th, 2008 by Mr. D. Sader

Using the format of a blog, comment at the end of each reading session on both the substance of your reading and its effects on you.
Record pages or sections on which you are commenting. Record your impressions of characters, events, conflicts, descriptions. Record responses to your own questions. Record questions about the novel as [...]

English 20 Final Exam 08

January 16th, 2008 by Mr. D. Sader

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
(427 BC-347 BC)
We must constantly make decisions in daily life. Some decisions are simple choices (e.g., Coke or Pepsi) while others affect people’s entire lives. Furthermore, every decision has consequences and [...]

Canadian Poetry Unit Plan

November 11th, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

I’ve selected three mini-units for our study of Canadian Poetry:

Individuals
Losers
Outsiders

Throughout your study, think carefully and creatively about responses to your course focus questions. Maintain a connection to characters you’ve already studied. Extend your discussion of image, symbol, and archetype. Consider: Principal Images of Heaven and Hell and Principal Images of Innocence and Experience.

English 20 Final Exam 2.0

January 23rd, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

Search the net, search blogs, search your mind. Synthesize, hyperlink, blockquote, and trackback.
Your writing should be a synthesis of the 5 paragraph essay AND a blog post.
Refer to one or any texts from your course: Macbeth, BNW, Can. Lit., Film, News, or other online media.
Your question:
What does it mean to be human in an engineered [...]

Pingback Trackback of the Canadian Outback

November 19th, 2006 by Mr. D. Sader

English 20(Chem)
Your task is to complete Writing Activity 1 from my canpoets blog.
Just following those instructions will not be enough, however.
Your assignment will not be complete until a “trackback” or “pingback” appears in the comment section on my Writing Activity 1 post.

I’ll have a bag of cookies on standby. Cookie of choice to STJ blogger(s) [...]

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