background preloader

Bpedersen

Facebook Twitter

Bay

eNotes Pearl. The Pearl Presentation. Which Way Does Your News Lean? - Media Bias - LibGuides at COM Library.

Counseling Website Notes and Resources

Bobby Love: Escaped Prisoner Turns Life Around, Then Cops Come. News articles (Corona) SHRSD.6 12 Faculty PD. SHRSD.6-12 Faculty PD. August 2020 - Google Slides. Mindfulness. 12 Angry Men - Ms. Morris Buford High School. 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose"...A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system.

12 Angry Men - Ms. Morris Buford High School

The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. " - goodreads.comComplete Text of 12 Angry Men by Reginald RoseTen Supreme Court Cases that Every Teen Should Know AboutRead the information provided on the link below, and respond to the pre-reading questions on your study guide. Creativity 2.0: See How Easily You Can Teach Tone. I slammed my hand down on the desk.

Creativity 2.0: See How Easily You Can Teach Tone

"What are you doing? " I bellowed. Frozen, terrified students stared at me, looked at their classmates and back to me. Shock swallowed their breath and turned every fiber of attention to me, the psychotic teacher, standing in the middle of the room. I stood up, waited another moment and then asked, "How did my tone affect your mood? " Teachable Moment - Teaching Social Responsibility By Alan Shapiro "Human existence depends upon compassion and curiosity leading to knowledge, but curiosity and knowledge without compassion is inhuman and compassion without curiosity and knowledge is ineffectual.

Teachable Moment -

" --Victor Weisskopf, nuclear physicist "Social responsibility-that is, a personal investment in the well-being of others and of the planet-doesn't just happen. It takes intention, attention, and time. " -- Sheldon Berman, "Educating for Social Responsibility," Educational Leadership, November 1990. Free presentation templates. This Sentence Has Five Words. Curvy in HTML5. Curvy is a HTML5 puzzle game using the canvas element.

Curvy in HTML5

Just rotate the tiles so that like colors connect. Modernizr tells me you don't have canvas support in your browser. Sadly, this game uses technology that's only in browsers with HTML5 support. We've tested Chrome 12, Firefox 4 and Opera 11. Presented to you by FlamingLunchbox is a puzzle, originally for Android phones, using a simple idea.

Each Curvy puzzle consists of a grid of hexagonal tiles. Curvy allows a variety of different puzzle sizes, providing puzzles that can be quickly solved as well as more complex versions depending on the size you choose. Want it on Android? We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Chinua Achebe: 'Heart Of Darkness' Is Inappropriate. Free Will and Determinism.

Film Making

Create Easy Infographics, Reports, Presentations. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Film Analysis. Current Issues. Existentialism. Lens Analysis. Soccer. Thesis statements. For Gifted. AP. The Scarlet Letter. Literary Devices and Terms - Definitions and Examples. Acrostic An acrostic is a piece of writing in which a particular set of letters—typically the first letter of each line, word, or paragraph—spells out a word or phrase with special significance to the text.

Of Mice and Men

MyShakespeare. Charles Shirley Jackson. The Impostor Syndrome. What Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated. Department of English and Comparative Literature. What is a Bildungsroman?

Department of English and Comparative Literature

In my examination, I will attempt to answer this misleadingly simple question. The term was suggested by Friedrich von Blanckenburg's discussion of Bildung in his 1774 "Essay on the Novel," coined by Karl Morgenstern in the 1820s, and popularized by Wilhelm Dilthey in his 1870 essay on Friedrick Schleiermacher. Therefore, when we 20th Century readers talk of the Bildungsroman, as we often do, we employ a critical lens honed in 19th Century Germany to treat a genre begun in the 18th Century.

One result of this critical distance is the conceptual indistinctness of the term. Romeo and Juliet Act 4 SG.

Writing Pages

The N Word and To Kill A Mockingbird. Comics. Tone. Book1 4209. Grade 8. StumbleUpon. Curious Incident of the Teacher in the Classroom. Introduction to Greek Theatre & Antigone: Tufts University’s Perseus Digital Library “The Development of Athenian Tragedy,” excerpted from Thomas R.

Curious Incident of the Teacher in the Classroom

Martin’s An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander. Dr. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Professor of Classics at Temple University’s Greek Theater and Society Course page. Glossary of important terms, worksheet guides to Greek plays, including Sophocles’ Antigone, and useful links to other sites. Emory University – Overview of Greek Drama Contains maps of Greece, drawings of Greek theater layout, historical timelines, and other relevant pictures of Athenian Acropolis, artistic depictions of Athenian actors and Greek drama. Unit Plans: DrPezz’s Antigone Unit and Study Guide WebEnglish Teacher links to study guides, units, and individual Antigone lessons.

Georgia Standards plan created by Cynde Snider for teaching 10th Grade Lit/Comp or World Literature Greek Tragedy Unit. Lesson Ideas: Revision and Editing Checklist for a Critical Essay - Writing About Fiction, Poetry, and Plays. By Richard Nordquist When it comes time to revise and edit the next-to-final draft of a critical essay, this checklist should serve as a helpful guide.

Revision and Editing Checklist for a Critical Essay - Writing About Fiction, Poetry, and Plays

As a general rule, the best time to revise is not right after you've completed a draft (though sometimes this is unavoidable). Instead, wait a few hours--even a day or two, if possible--in order to gain some distance from your work. One last bit of advice: read your work aloud when you revise and edit. The Oatmeal Grammar Pack. I raised an addict – what could I have done differently? It has been a very interesting month.

I raised an addict – what could I have done differently?

Since my first post I have connected with old high school friends who have active or recovering addicts in their families. I have been contacted by people who are living the nightmare of Addiction as parents, spouses, children and friends of addicts as well as addicts themselves.

Short Stories

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler.