No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. – Aristotle
I have three boys aged 9, 7, and 4. It should be no surprise that we all like Star Wars. Well, we were all watching another episode of “Clone Wars” last week when all three of us reacted to a couple of toy commercials.
The first commercial we reacted to was for a Mommy Look I [...]
Consider this article by Michael Kessler from the Washington Post.
It is the current trend to see anonymous comments attached to news stories at any popular news or sporting news site. Click on any hot topic and you’ll soon see the comments turn to ridicule and nonsense soon enough.
Michael Kessler in the Post article argues that [...]
How do we write more, while at the same time we write less? This paradox occurred to me today while talking about writing with a student at STJ.
I also thought about the popularity of Twitter with its 150 characters “tweets” compared to the effort to maintain a blog with its posts in the 3-5 paragraph [...]
After two days the Grade 8, 9a and 9b classes have created a blog, changed their Profile password, started their Blogroll, and been introduced to a general pattern for a new post:
start with a good idea
3-5 paragraphs
3-5 links, and
an image.
It looks like it’ll take a period or two just to get the blogroll done, then [...]
What are the most amazing mobile apps out there? I bet nothing on any other mobile phone platform compares to the iPhone, though.
After reading The Bean Trees, making some notes, and writing the exam, choose a focus questions for your essay. Try one of these questions as written by your classmates:
Pingback your essay ASAP.
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 [...]
Tonight I was “surfing the net while sitting on the couch” again and I stumbled upon a terrific site for generating random ideas for writing short stories.
“Tropes are storytelling devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.”
Here’s one
And another …
The real value is [...]
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 [...]
There is an increasing appetite among STJ bloggers for fresh books to read. At the STJ Library blog the list of books read and reviewed keeps increasing, however, I fear the lack of choice in our current library stacks may soon inhibit this momentum.
So, I’d like to try something to abate/assuage my fears.
In my [...]
