Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has an excellent Christmas vacation!

Remember that Christmas is what we make it. It should be a time to show love for each other, and to share this love with people besides our family. Christmas is not meant to be a big party or a commercial event, but a remembrance of God's love for us - because He sent His son into this world in the form of a baby boy, who became the only perfect man that ever lived. He then sacrificed Himself for us, that we may have eternal life. Every day we have the choice of accepting this original and free Christmas gift, which is the grace of God.

Please do the right thing for yourself and your family by accepting this gift and God's love, and then sharing it with others.

Merry Christmas!

Mr. Catlin

Second Quarter Articles

These were the ten articles we had from the New York Times:

9   Google Cars Drive Themselves
10  The Many Faces of You
11  Being Steve Jobs' Boss
12  Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
13  Containment Lite
14  Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?
15  Thanksgiving Scripture
16  The Big American Leak
17  Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
18  Social Science Palooza

Blog project reviews and results

For the first quarter, students were supposed to get their own blog up, add three gadgets, and make comments about stories and articles. The following three students were selected at that time as having done the best job in their class:

Lit 5 – Eric 

 

Lit 4 – Jeffrey 

Lit 3 – Ragini 

In the second quarter, students were asked to write a description of their science fair project and put a reaction there for each of two stories that were read in the quarter.

For the third quarter, students who have not completed the above will need to do so. Then we will have another two reactions to two favorite selections from the book during the quarter, as well as one of the weekend articles. Additionally, a description of a student's favorite music group and the kind of music they play as well as a sample of their music (preferably a link to an online video source) posted on the blog for student music will be required.

 

Oldies but goodies

Old movie list (41 movies to choose from)

These are in no particular order –

A streetcar named desire

Joan of Arc

The prince and the pauper

The father of the bride

Scarface

Gone with the wind

Citizen Kane

Roman holiday

The jazz singer

It’s a wonderful life

The Glenn Miller story

The wizard of Oz

Casablanca

The Maltese falcon

On the waterfront

Julius Caesar

Sunset Boulevard (reserved by Leighton)

Rhapsody in blue

The bicycle thief (Italian movie)

Broken lance

The keys to the kingdom

Ivanhoe

Flying tiger

Samson and Delilah

Pygmalion

The adventures of Robin Hood

Knights of the Round Table

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

White heat

A tale of two cities

Mutiny on the Bounty

Fantasia

Seven samurai (Japanese movie)

Oliver Twist

City lights

For whom the bell tolls

Robinson Crusoe

The grapes of wrath

Demetrius and the gladiators

Articles and blog for first quarter 2010

First Quarter Articles

1 As English spreads Indonesians fear for their language (New York Times)

2 The early bird really does get the worm (Harvard Business Review)

3 His corporate strategy the scientific method (New York Times)

4 Forget what you know about good study habits (New York Times)

5 Weird weather in a warming world (New York Times)

6 The boss is robotic and rolling up behind you (New York Times)

7 Cleaner, Healthier Air (New York Times)
8 Off to College (New York Times) 

The article on robots is quite long so it counts as two articles for a total of nine.

Also, the blog needs two story reviews from the first quarter readings, a review of your DVD report, one review of one of the weekend articles we have done, and two posts on either my blog(s) or a classmate's blog. To be considered complete for the project grade, however, you first need to get the blog up and running, link it to the main blog, and add three other gadgets.

Welcome

Dear Literature students,

We have three projects per quarter this year. This first quarter had a DVD project, and you are now working on your research paper. The final project this quarter is to make a blog that you will link this main blog. I will also link your blog to mine here. On your blog, you can post ideas or reactions to stories, poems, articles, or anything from our course. I may also ask you to post things about your projects and things you have read throughout the year. I will check it periodically. Please put something new on your blog every two or three weeks.

Best regards,

Robert Catlin