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While you read…Brave New World

Posted on September 9, 2008 by dsader

Using the format of a blog, comment at the end of each reading session on both the substance of your reading and its effects on you. Record pages or sections on which you are commenting. Record your impressions of characters, … Continue reading →

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Hamlet: Final Response

Posted on November 2, 2007 by dsader

Choose a focus for your final response to Hamlet. Synthesize alternative points of view, (include links to sources: your posts, STJ blogs, etc.). Review your responses throughout our study: Thaw, resolve, adieu… Hamlet Getting Started 2 Is Polonius a Good … Continue reading →

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Student blog will win $10,000 Scholarship

Posted on October 17, 2007 by dsader

One blogger chosen by “the internet” will win $10,000 US scholarship … for keeping a blog. As the ratio of high school student blogs I read to the number of college student blogs I read approaches infinity, I think it … Continue reading →

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Hamlet: Getting Started

Posted on September 11, 2007 by dsader

Hamlet raises many questions that you may recognize from your own life. Thinking about some of these issues will make your experience of the play more interesting and rewarding. Discuss some of the following questions in your blog or the … Continue reading →

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Leaving STJ? Take your blog with you.

Posted on June 11, 2007 by dsader

Dashboard–>Manage–>Export Save the xml file to your disk/USB. Start a new blog at WordPress.com or Edublogs Dashboard–>Manage–>Import–>Wordpress Done. You could start your own blog on a shared server, but for true blog freedom, master your own domain and install WAMP … Continue reading →

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Prepare for English Language Arts Finals

Posted on May 30, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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Exptrapolation

Posted on May 9, 2007 by dsader

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. – Plato Write a story in which a protagonist undergoes a transformation in the search for self. Have your character encounter basic questions about his/her identity. Consider using the following images:

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My Mother’s Kitchen

Posted on May 3, 2007 by dsader

Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother’s kitchen. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead. Write a poem about your mother’s kitchen. You are not in this poem, but some female relation … Continue reading →

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Microcontents Flourish at STJ Blogs (LA 9)

Posted on March 28, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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Blogging About the News (LA 9)

Posted on March 28, 2007 by dsader

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, … Continue reading →

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Catch one of these on your tongue (LA 9)

Posted on March 28, 2007 by dsader

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. Send a trackback.

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Random Ideas (LA 9)

Posted on March 28, 2007 by dsader

For a while now, every STJ blogger is faced with a “Random Idea” each time the begin a new post. Well, there should be dozens, hunerds, towsands of such posts in our blogosphere by now. Trackback your “Random Idea” posts … Continue reading →

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An Exodus Within(RS 25)

Posted on March 23, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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An Interpretation of Hamlet

Posted on March 21, 2007 by dsader

(30-1) For hundreds of years, scholars have written about problems of interpreting this play. Complete any of the following statements and develop your thoughts in an entry in your blog. Trackback, SVP. What puzzles me most about Hamlet’s behaviour is … Continue reading →

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When the basic needs are met, then what?(RS 25)

Posted on February 12, 2007 by dsader

Today we asked if there was something all humans strive for after all needs have been met. Of course, only a philosopher can imagine a world in which all needs could be met. But there must be something to the … Continue reading →

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