Siddhartha
For tomorrow, please finish reading Chapter 5. Chapter 4 notes from the class discussion can be found in the PDF format here. Remember that you have an essay due Friday.
The Things They Carried
Answer Question #12 and #13 in the text. Read the next short story, Love, for tomorrow.
Siddhartha
Please read the first three pages of Chapter 5 for tomorrow.
Today we will review Chapter Four, The Awakening, and read and discuss Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. For Friday, please prepare a one to two page essay which compares Chapter 4 with the poem. Some questions to ponder:
Do Whitman and Hesse share common goals?
How does [...]
The Things They Carried
What can you learn about America from a look around one of the rooms in your house? Submit through the comment feature for tomorrow.
Siddhartha
Please read Chapter 4 The Awakening for tomorrow and submit a two paragraph summary of the chapter using the comment feature below of type it and submit in class tomorrow.
The Things They Carried
Over the week-end, please pick out something that happens, or something you see and come up with a short moral for it. It should be something that seem common or everyday. Describe a moral or tell me what it means using the comment feature below.
The Things They Carried
Tonight, please ask you parents to tell you what they remember about the Vietnam War. Did any of them serve? What do they remember about the news coverage? Anything they can remember will work.
Please use the comment feature below to submit what your parents tell you.
US History Regents Thematic Essay
You have the thematic essay from the January 2008 Regents test due at the end of the class on Monday. You have three class periods to work on them. We have tree mapped the material for the body paragraphs and are available in Thinking Map form in your network folders and [...]
Siddhartha
Please read pages 4-6 in Chapter 2 for tomorrow. We finished with the question asked about the Siddhartha line in Little Buddha about “learning involves change.”
US History Thematic Essay Prep
Please read the following Wikipedia short bio on Senator Daniel Inouye. How does his story help us to answer the question about the impact of World War II on Japanese Americans?
Daniel Ken Inouye (born September 7, 1924) is a recipient of the Medal of Honor and currently serves as the senior United [...]
