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ELA 20 Final Writing Assignment
Write a post in response to a text you read in ELA 20 in which you discuss 3-5 ideas the text creator suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self. Consider the course focus: The most profound discovery … Continue reading
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The Shack Writing Assignment
Write a post in response to The Shack in which you discuss 3-5 ideas WM Paul Young suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self. Consider your discussions of key questions in the STJ forums on The Shack … Continue reading
Prepping for ELA 9 Achievement Test?
Part A of the Alberta ELA 9 Achievement test is itself in 2 parts: Narrative/Essay Business Letter Suggestions for Preparing to Write the Narrative/Essay: Assessment of the Narrative / Essay Writing Assignment on the achievement test will be in the … Continue reading
Separation from a Loved One
Compare and contrast how the following two poems deal with the theme of separation from a loved one: The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound(a translation from original by Li Po) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne … Continue reading
The Medium is the Message
According to Marshall McLuhan, television is a “cool” medium because it provides little information and makes the user fill in what is missing. How do the House Hippo and Media Monkey ads make the user fill in the information? House … Continue reading
English 30: Blake’s Romanticism
D.C.Williams (1899-1983) said that Blake was a romantic with a critical view on the world, he maintained that Blake’s Songs of Innocence were made as a view of an ideal, somewhat Utopian view whereas he used the Songs of Experience … Continue reading
February 2010: Update your blog, email, and forum settings
Check your email: manage your contacts deal with your spam organize mail into folders turn chat on/off create or update a spreadsheet document Login to (or create) your blog: update your profile – email address manage your comments manage your … Continue reading
2010 English 10 Final Exam
Consider the “Equality–Pain and Pride” focus questions. He drew a circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. – … Continue reading
Video Advertisement Group Project
“Rocks are metaphors.” – D. Sader “They are just piles of rocks.” – K. Lumayko In ELA 10 we have been discussing gender inequality: particularly as inequalities are portrayed in advertisements. We think it would be interesting to create our … Continue reading
Gender role reinforcement in children’s toys
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 … Continue reading
Our relationship with technology » The Problem with Anonymous Commenting
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 … Continue reading
Book Talk Intensifies at STJ
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 the popularity of Twitter with its 150 characters “tweets” … Continue reading
My Favorite Plugins from premium.wpmudev.org
Here’s my list of a few premium WPMU plugins that have become an integral part of my WPMU install at iblog.stjschool.org. This year, new users did not have an active email account assigned to them from the division central office … Continue reading
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2009-10 Courses Underway: “Out of the frying pan and into the Lab”
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 … Continue reading
Religion 25 Summary February-June 2009
General Outcomes 1: Explore how believing is integral to human living (8-18 hours). Investigate the role of truth, goodness, the spiritual and religious community in the search to believe (4-5 hours). Focus: What does it mean to believe? What contributes … Continue reading
