This weekend I visited two photo exhibits at the Dahl - one a series of shots exploring the theme of mountains (with our own Mr. Jensen taking first place in the professional division, and I hear the youth winners are peers of yours, though I don’t know them myself), the other a series of portraits [...]
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When thinking is required, turn to the written word. That’s my conviction and that’s what we’re doing in the days after the gun scare that had our entire school locked up tight with SWAT on patrol for more than three hours. I’ve set up a separate blog for students to tell their stories, and the [...]
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Angus says “No matter how much time goes by racism will always be around.”
“A lot of people don’t even realize they are prejudice because they were probably brought up that way or they’re just not used to other races or something like that.” -Emmerz
“i think we need to do exactly what the Declaration of Independence [...]
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I have been awfully excited about the changes to edublogs (and learnerblogs) lately and was on the verge of assigning you some independent blogging challenges, but then Edublogs had to remove the function that enables us to install lots of cool stuff on the blogs (they’re called text widgets if you’re curious). It was a [...]
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For these chapters, you kept a double entry journal tracking your connections to the text. When you finish chapter 15, please write a blog article discussing what you think is developing in the book and how you have been able to connect with it. Use your double entry journal to drive this entry’s content. The [...]
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Of Mice & Men Worth It
