In Context

Friday, January 18, 2008

January 15, 2008

  • USING ONLINE DISCUSSIONS--"Catcher in the What? Tenth Graders Discover Discussion Through an Online Forum": NCTE Convention Presentation (November 2007)
  • Corey O'Brien: CHS English 10
  • Designing Online Forums: Considerations and a Live Demo; Online discussion forums at http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/ (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) provide familiar discourse spaces for adolescents' conversations.
  • Discussing literature and responding to peer writing in these digital spaces outside of the classroom expands students' thinking, social interaction, and audience and rhetorical awareness.

  • Monday, February 4, 2008--NCTE National African American Read-In: Brainstorm ideas for English classes to support this CHS Literacy Committee initiative

  • 08-09 SCHEDULING
    Teacher Signature Days--January 28-30 (MTW only)
    Criteria for English level recommendations--B average or higher for Honors and GT placement

  • Thursday, January 10, 2008--8th Grade Parent Orientation Feedback

  • Materials Recently Ordered--
    MagnetSlates and magic magnet pens--Grade 10
    Grades 11 & 12 Grammar Books--One class set per teacher
    Ordinary People--Grade 12
    Spoon River Anthology--Grade 11
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Grade 11






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www.poets.org
~from The Tragedy of King Richard II (Act 3, Scene 3) (1623) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MobRic2.html

Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth
Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,
That any harm should stain so fair a show!


~from Moby-Dick (Chapter 96: The Try-Works) (1851) by Herman Melville (1819-1891)

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mel2Mob.html

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.


~from Love's Phases (1899) by Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906)
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/dunbar/poetryindex/love%27s_phases.html

Love hath the wings of the eagle bold,
Cling to him strongly
What if the look of the world be cold,
And life go wrongly?
Rest on his pinions, for broad is their fold;
Love hath the wings of the eagle bold.


~from What the Eagle Says (1999) by Xi Chuan (born Liu Jun, 1963)

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/crevel.html

Among men there are men who are not men, just like among eagles there are eagles that are not eagles: there are eagles that are forced to pace up and down the alleyways, and there are men who are forced to fly through the air.