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Prepare for English Language Arts Finals

May 30th, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

For those in the midst, or looking ahead at finals in my LA classes(9, 10-1, 20-1, 20-2, 30-1, 30-2).
Consider the outcomes we’ve tried to achieve.
Enhancing the artistry of communication has been a strong technical focus. Skills mastered include using online blogging tools, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, even graphical enhancements using Photoshop or audio/video podcasting tools have [...]

Microcontents Flourish at STJ Blogs (LA 9)

March 28th, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

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 [...]

An Exodus Within(RS 25)

March 23rd, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

Sophie was introduced to Aristotle. Ideas no longer belong to a realm of their own, but somehow the idea is within the thing. Aristotle could explain this by talking of sculptures and stone.
Review what was said earlier about Plato and art. Discuss Aristotle’s take on the place of ideas and art.
Search for a thumbnail [...]

Looking for News

January 8th, 2007 by Mr. D. Sader

Try the following suggestions to increase your daily intake of news feeds.

Surf the latest headlines from all over the world. Results are based on google search rankings, the larger the font –> the more hits in google, I recall. Headlines link to an array of news organizations.
Aggregate a few headlines from, say, cbc.ca/rss in your [...]

In the News(CTS bloggers)

December 3rd, 2006 by Mr. D. Sader

CBC RSS feeds. Browse the many RSS feed categories. Select at least one to be added to your blog’s sidebar.

Copy(right-click or control-click) a feed url from CBC RSS feeds.
Go to Dashboard–>Presentation–>Sidebar Widgets–>Add RSS widgets.
Drag RSS widget to your sidebar.
Paste the url into the RSS widget.
Save and view site.

Macbeth Act 2 Quiz Hints

September 26th, 2006 by Mr. D. Sader

“What goes around comes around”
“Pillow Talk”
“Smear Campaign”
“A Canadian Moment”
“Sibling Rivalry”
Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry”

Grade 10 Mages reflect on the last week

May 30th, 2006 by Mr. D. Sader

Recall images, faces, reactions, hecklers, stumbles, successes from the last week preparing and performing for the elementary students. See if you can’t work into your reflections a discussion of the postulates: can something come from nothing? does God exist? is our soul immortal? is our will our own? As well, discuss the presence of [...]

Plato’s Cave Allegory

February 12th, 2006 by Mr. D. Sader

from Republic, BOOK VII
And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and [...]

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