We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. – Aristotle
A while back I received the following invitation:
“A Panacea of Poetry East Central is having a poetry contest! It will be positively poetic and panoptic!
The first phase we undertook in Grades 9 and 10 was to explore Ladders to the Dark. The first poem was published, April 21, 2009. And today 38 students have written [...]
Create a “Who Am I?” crossword puzzle for your group/class.
get every person’s name to fit somewhere
get at least one descriptive adverb or adjective for each person in the group
get at least one favorite activity listed for each person
Example clues:
Across:
a friendly boy, when he’s not playing basketball
Bob’s favorite sport
Use the following, or similar, crossword puzzle maker.
Attach [...]
We asked ourselves these questions.
We watched this film.
We made many connections to the world here.
We used this software.
We wrote these.
Pick a question(s) from “The Human Condition” course focus questions.
Read a news story(or 3-5 related stories) that in some way explore “The Human Condition.” (adding RSS widgets from cbc.ca/rss/ is a great way to do this.)
Write about the news while at the same time responding to the focus question(s).
Make sure your writing is in your [...]
Monday evening, after the kids went to bed, I sat on the couch watching “Terminator” immersing myself in my weekly paranoia about machines one day bringing an end to humanity. The gist of this episode, like the films, put the basic humanness of its otherwise innocent characters on a bleak collision course with a war [...]
I’d like some help considering what pair of films we ought to study in LA 9. Keeping in mind our course focus questions, what pair of films should we study in class?
Why We Fight vs. The Atomic Cafe
Artificial Intelligence: AI vs. I, Robot
Hoosiers vs. Rudy
Godzilla vs. King Kong
Close Encounters of the Third Kind vs. Signs
The [...]
Today I was asked: “How do I write a book review?”
Here’s a quick trip about what I found:
My first stop was at Amazon. With each book is a snippet of a responses from readers/buyers/sellers. The purpose of the reviews are simple – take a few seconds to write a sharply worded sentence or two and recommend [...]
Thanks to a few bloggers for helping me work out the bugs in the microcontent code. Movie, music, and video game reviews appear to be the most popular. I still haven’t, yet, found a sure fire method of aggregating all the reviews – POGE. The FREEoutputthis.org looks promising.
Anyway, for the time being, trackback your microcontent [...]
Students can collect news headlines from a variety of RSS sources using their blog as a news aggregator. Writing about the news is one of the more common uses of a blog throughout the blogosphere. Bloggers blend fact and opinion, rant and satire, sarcasm and criticism, objectivity and subjectivity, style and substance. By reading and [...]
The snowflake blog deals out an assortment of writing ideas. Students can pick from a variety of prompts. Try not to make any two posts the same.
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