English 12 2008 Final Project
Over the last four weeks of school you will independently read Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and complete a final paper for the class. The paper will count as the final grade for the fourth quarter and a final exam grade worth a full marking period.
Essay Question:
What is [...]
The Things They Carried
Update on our project: New due date will be Monday, June 9th. We will view the animations as a class that day. This gives us some time to get through some more stories and makes up for some of the class time we have missed.
The goals of the project [...]
The Things They Carried
We will begin the Vietnam Power Point project today in ELA. It will due on Friday, May 30th. The goals of the project are as follows:
Each student will respond to the short stories from The Things They Carried by creating a self running Power Point Story between two and three minutes in [...]
Siddhartha
Read Chapter 10 for tomorrow, and in a paragraph describe Siddhartha’s problem with his son using the comment feature below.
Siddhartha
From Chapter 9, I want to focus on two quotes:
But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always an at all times the same and yet new in every [...]
US History DBQ
Please answer the question for Document #3A in the January ‘08 US History Exam using the comment feature below for tomorrow’s homework.
Siddhartha
In Chapter 8, Siddhartha says to himself, “Things are going downhill with you!” What are the possible meanings of this statement. Is he talking only of himself? Please use the comment feature to complete this homework.
Also, please read Chapter 9, The Ferryman.
US History DBQ/Writing RCT
Today we began looking at the US History DBQ. In class we worked through the Historical Context, the Task, and Document One. DBQ students should have an answer submitted using the comment feature below for the first Document and its question for tomorrow.
Siddhartha
In the blog a buddhist perspective, the blogger makes the following distinction between detachment and non-attachment:
Question: I was talking to a friend and she told me “she tried” Buddhism but the following was her reason for not pursuing it further: “I don’t think that it is a good thing to detach from the body and [...]
The Things They Carried
Here is the Pinky and Bunny Vietnam video if you need to see it again:
