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We will review today for the Ishmael Test. You will be given the test at the beginning of class on Tuesday. It will be due at the end of class on Wednesday. Please spend some time preparing.
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Papers on the Hero’s Journey will be due on Friday. You will have the class today to work on them. We have no class tomorrow per the half day, many of you will be gone on Thursday with the Ecology trip, and Friday we will be having Sean’s presentation.
Please seek help if you need it!
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Please have chapter 11 finished for tomorrow with questions finished.
You have a 2 page writing assignment due next Friday, January 18th. It should answer the question How does the concept of the Hero’s Journey work within the context of the novel Ishmael? Some directions this discussion might take:
Who is the Hero?
Name and describe the steps, [...]
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Please read Parts 1-4 of Section 10, pages 187 - 197 for tomorrow and be caught up with the questions so far.
Today we are looking at the story of Adam as told in Genesis and how it differs from Ishmael’s version. I also have some famous paintings of the fall of man to show.
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For Monday, please read Section 9 (to page 184) and have the Kurzweil questions done.
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For tomorrow, please read pages 161 - 168 and complete all questions for Section 9 up to page 168. Questions will be due when we finish the section, probably Monday.
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We are looking at Part 8 today and maybe Monday. You have been given a short writing assignment for next Friday that asks you to use the search and highlighting functions of Kurzweil to extract all references to “Mother Culture” and then define and discuss the term in one page. Be sure to start this [...]
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Read Part 7 for tomorrow. We went over Part 6 today and DJ asked a really good question:
What is Ishmael’s motivation?
We will come back to that question several times.
Please keep in mind the idea that the Takers civilization is like a flying machine that has gone off a cliff. The ground is rushing up to [...]
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Yesterday I demonstrated some of uses of the highlighting functions of the Kurzweil program in manipulating a text or texts. We looked at:
The use of Highlights to categorize and remove specific types of information from a text like vocabulary in yellow and definitions in green or pros in orange and cons in magenta.
We briefly discussed [...]
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Due to the snow day that many of you had, we are backed up one day. Today, you should be read through page 75 at the end of Part 4 and have the questions finished and printed. For Friday, please be read through the end of Part 5, and have the questions done and printed [...]
