Contribute to my Why? Blog article with your questions about why specific things in life are the way they are. Let’s build a great list together . . . Click on the link to find out what it’s all about.
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For these chapters, I am mostly interested in you reading and asking questions. You can make comments, but the big push through this section is to ask questions of the text, either for clarity (base level of the rising levels of reading) or for pondering (the middle and upper levels of the rising levels of reading). Everyone was required to come up with a minimum of 10 questions and then your group needs to discuss them together.
When your group finishes, you will discuss and post your most intriguing questions to the wiki page. Then respond in a blog article (minimum 10 sentences). Like earlier, please consider this blog article an extension of your thinking from the discussion. If you like, you can copy and paste questions into your article and respond to them in a Q&A format.
pages 74-112
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At the finish of chapter 8, please write a 250-300 word reflection on Jem. Call it Jem’s Journal and write the article as if you are Jem and you are thinking back on the events up to this point in the book. Please make sure you consider the events through the end of chapter 8 as well - I will expect evidence in your article that you reached this point in the novel. You may work with your group to compile a list of the events you think would be most importantly discussed from Jem’s perspective.
Please post this article on your blog and print a copy to hand in. I will grade the printed copy but would like you to have it logged in your blog.
Write a quick blog article (7-10 sentences) driven by the comments and questions your group raised while reading chapters 7-8. Be sure to link to your articles from your wiki (and to your wiki from your articles). The subject of your group’s questions and comments were open this time - everyone filled out a thinkmark while reading and then discussed briefly.
Pages 57-74
Please write a short blog article (7-10 sentences) reflecting on the symbol discussion your group engaged in. Which symbols do you think are most important? Which ones did your group discuss that you are not sure about?
It will be very difficult for you to complete this assignment without your group engaging in dialogue. Please discuss the symbols with your group - this blog article is intended simply as an extended reflection coming out of that dialogue.
As you read these chapters, I’d like you to note your impressions of the characters (especially the Finch family). Write questions and observations as you read, and then compile the best of them on your group’s wiki. I’d then like you to write an extended reflection on a particular character (in your blog - 250 words minimum), considering what motivates them, what your personal reaction to them is, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and what you think their significance will be in this novel. Like usual, use specifics from the text - specific details and specific quotes.
After finishing The Crucible, I had some trouble deciding how best to follow it, but then moved towards choosing words and looking further at the witch trials and hysteria. After digesting everything we had to digest, content wise, please complete the following assignment. It should be a minimum of 15 sentences long, and eventually I’ll want you to post it to your blog.
Pick a series of words that you feel describe The Crucible and its themes. Choose an array of terms, so as to describe the fullness of your perspective.
This is due by Tuesday, March 6.
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Like usual, if you get a chance to push your thinking, you reveal great insight. Here is a batch of noteworthy comments on “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
Emmerz points out that the Minister carries secrets, even as he makes his point.
Also read Bumblebee, LemurLover, pretzelpocketz, punchdrunklove, and jean2008
On a related note, I read this post from a gal who is considering not blogging anymore, and in a sense, her resistance to blogging reveals her discomfort with revealing what is behind her veil. I would guess that if I assigned you to read her blog, most of you would agree with her concerns and resistance to openness, and yet in your responses to Hawthorne, most of you agreed with him too. What is the difference? (I have an idea about what the difference is, but I’d rather hear your thinking).
On another note, today’s assignment is for you to read blogs for 30 minutes and then spend 10 minutes telling me your thoughts - on what you read, on blogs and whether reading blogs is a worthwhile pursuit, or more on veils and whether we should have them. Make your thoughts minimally seven sentences.
How do you find blogs? Head to the Technorati homepage and use it to search for something you’d be interested in reading. Try the tags, general subject areas, or try searching for a particular keyword. What you read is up to you, as long as what stays on your computer screen is school appropriate.
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Original image: ‘Theres no escape from this town‘ by: Danny Williams
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Original image: ‘Hossein on Toronto Star‘ by: Hossein Derakhshan
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Now that you have thoroughly picked through “The Minister’s Black Veil” and discovered Nathaniel Hawthorne’s expression against secret sin, please move to the third level of reading, considering if Hawthorne is right - if he describes what you believe to be an accurate depiction of life, and if you think it is accurate, whether you agree that it is problematic, as Father Hooper believes.
To write well for this blog, I recommend that you begin by explaining in your own words what you think the moral is of Hawthorne’s parable. Then you can build your discussion from there, explaining how right or wrong you think it is, how insightful or profound you think it may be. Please remember to give Hawthorne credit by naming him and the title of his story.
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I have asked some questions of you lately, and I would like you to read my observations. which I’ve posted on my own blog. Please respond in your own blogs and in your response, please link back to that original letter. If you have nothing to say pertaining directly to the letter, make some observations of your own reading and writing habits.
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