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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it): Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini
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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it). Monday, October 1, 2007. Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini. Kite Runner tells the story of true platonic love in the midst of a culture in turmoil. From birth its two main characters are seemingly destined to be best friends, but the pressures of war and survival lead them to period of betrayal and distrust. The title of the novel comes from kite fighting competitions that were once commonplace in Afghan communities. Multiple boys would fly kites with glass-filled ...
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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it): October 2007
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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it). Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde. As one of the great works of the aesthetic genre, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Presents a common struggle of the maturing human mind. Age. Loss of beauty. Wilde presents this novel as a dark, surrealistic, and hopeless depiction of the battles of vanity and hedonism that capture and poison the human mind. Is beautifully written. Wilde has a gift for characterization and the shaping of a novel-pr...
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High Tech Humanities: November 2009
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Monday, November 9, 2009. Over the past several weeks we have looked at the importance of heroes. The essential question for this project was. How does a hero become a hero. Today we did a final class reflection on the answer to that essential question. Now it is time for you to reflect on your own Hero project. Write a blog post where you do the following:. Use complete sentences and answer all questions. 1 Answer the essential question. How does a hero become a hero. Use your own words to describe it.
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High Tech Humanities: September 2009
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Friday, September 25, 2009. SLOB Character - What I Did This Weekend. Pick any character from chapters 1-6 of The Secret Life of Bees and write a blog post as if you were them. Describe what they did over the weekend. Use their voice and their style of vocabulary. Who did they see and interact with? What did they do? Remember, what you are writing about is. What happens in the book. You are making up an extra “scene” in the book that we haven’t read yet. Include a relevant, interesting photo. Broke from ...
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High Tech Humanities: Hero Project Reflection
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Monday, November 9, 2009. Over the past several weeks we have looked at the importance of heroes. The essential question for this project was. How does a hero become a hero. Today we did a final class reflection on the answer to that essential question. Now it is time for you to reflect on your own Hero project. Write a blog post where you do the following:. Use complete sentences and answer all questions. 1 Answer the essential question. How does a hero become a hero. Use your own words to describe it.
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High Tech Humanities: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009. Critiquing a Post - Sensory Detail: Sound. Now that you have written your own Sound Blog. I would like you to critique a classmate's blog. We will assign you a person in class today. You are to comment on their blog, and answer the following questions. Each of the following should be at least three (3), complete sentences. 1) Which part of their description captured you and why? 2) How did they describe their sound (what writing tools did they use? Monday, October 5, 2009. I'm a...
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High Tech Humanities: Semester Goals for Spring 2010
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Semester Goals for Spring 2010. It's the start of a new semester and a new year. It's time to list your academic goals for Humanities class. After watching Sir Ken Robinson's TED. Talk on Are Schools Killing Creativity? I hope you remember to focus on creativity and the Habits of Mind in your goals. As a reminder the habits of mind are: Innovation, Perspective, Evidence, Mindfulness, Ownership, and Wonder. Write your own blog post in which you list. View my complete profile.
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High Tech Humanities: June 2010
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. Filtered light meandered aimlessly through the high-back wicker chairs on the plaza Jeanne d'Arc. Votre chocolate fondant mademoiselle," uttered the garcon. I sighed. French men sounded romantic even they were working. They brought two spoons! Rose snapped up a utensil faster than I could and dug into the pile of chocolate decadence before us. I scooped up my own bite, closed my eyes, and entered heaven. In my heaven, there is chocolate everywhere. ME, ALL ME!
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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it): The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
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Book View (There is no "Re-" about it). Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde. As one of the great works of the aesthetic genre, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Presents a common struggle of the maturing human mind. Age. Loss of beauty. Wilde presents this novel as a dark, surrealistic, and hopeless depiction of the battles of vanity and hedonism that capture and poison the human mind. Is beautifully written. Wilde has a gift for characterization and the shaping of a novel-pr...
