To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Music with explicit lyrics (bad words) should be censored when played on the radio.
Please be thoughtful and thorough in your response (all responses should be at least 3 lines long), and remember to be professional with your grammar, spelling, and word choice.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Racist Books
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Books that promote racism should be banned from all school libraries.
Please explain your answer carefully (all responses should be at least 3 lines long), and remember to be professional with your grammar, spelling, and word choice.
Books that promote racism should be banned from all school libraries.
Please explain your answer carefully (all responses should be at least 3 lines long), and remember to be professional with your grammar, spelling, and word choice.
Books with Bomb Instructions
To what extent to you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Please explain your thoughts carefully (all responses should be at least three sentences long), and remember to be professional with your grammar, spelling, and word choice.
Books with instructions on how to make bombs should be banned from all school libraries in the Littleton District.
Please explain your thoughts carefully (all responses should be at least three sentences long), and remember to be professional with your grammar, spelling, and word choice.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Are You Ready for Battle? Is Macbeth?
Before we finish reading Macbeth, I'd like you to use this blog to make a few predictions based on the patterns you have noticed in Acts 1-4.
Please make at least TWO predictions and explain what pattern has lead you to these predictions. In other words, make an argument for each prediction.
Here are a few topics you could consider:
Which part of the prophecies made in 1.1 and 4.1 will come true and how? Which ones won't?
What will ultimately happen to Macbeth? How?
What might happen to Lady Macbeth?
Who dies at the end of the play, and who gets to live?
Please make at least TWO predictions and explain what pattern has lead you to these predictions. In other words, make an argument for each prediction.
Here are a few topics you could consider:
Which part of the prophecies made in 1.1 and 4.1 will come true and how? Which ones won't?
What will ultimately happen to Macbeth? How?
What might happen to Lady Macbeth?
Who dies at the end of the play, and who gets to live?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Macbeth, Act 3: Acting Companies
After reading your assigned scene in Act 3, please post the following on this blog:
1. The three most important events, in your humble opinion, of this scene.
2. The most important passage in this scene (please include speaker, the lines themselves, and the line numbers--just as you do in your word trace entries).
3. A thoughtful explanation as to why this passage is so significant (what does it reveal about a character or change in character? Is it part of a motif? Does it reveal any emerging themes?).
1. The three most important events, in your humble opinion, of this scene.
2. The most important passage in this scene (please include speaker, the lines themselves, and the line numbers--just as you do in your word trace entries).
3. A thoughtful explanation as to why this passage is so significant (what does it reveal about a character or change in character? Is it part of a motif? Does it reveal any emerging themes?).
Monday, January 11, 2010
Questioning Macbeth, Act 1
Based on what we have read so far in Macbeth, what are three discussion questions that could lead us to a deeper understanding of the characters, motifs, and/or themes of this play? Feel free to use the "How To Ask a Great Question" guide at the top of the class website.
After you have posted your three questions, please respond a question posted by somebody else. Be sure to reference clearly which question you are addressing.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Chance, Choice, and Tragedy
Please find a fairly recent article (within the past year) that describes a tragedy that a person or group of people have faced.
On this blog, please do the following:
First, please offer a brief summary of your article (3-5 sentences).
Second, comment on whether or not you think this person had control over this tragedy--did this happen by choice or by chance? Explain your thinking.
Third, please read over the comments on this post and respond to the following question:Which is the greater tragedy--one that happens because of a bad choice, or the one that happens by random chance? Explain your thinking.
On this blog, please do the following:
First, please offer a brief summary of your article (3-5 sentences).
Second, comment on whether or not you think this person had control over this tragedy--did this happen by choice or by chance? Explain your thinking.
Third, please read over the comments on this post and respond to the following question:Which is the greater tragedy--one that happens because of a bad choice, or the one that happens by random chance? Explain your thinking.
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