Monday, 03/05/12

ELAS

1. The Hunger Games projects - continue working on them
2. Get your field trip survey filled out by your parents!


Composition

1. VPP15 - packet due Thursday, test on Thursday.
2. Of Mice and Men project. Due Thursday, March 8.
**extra credit writing assignment available

English H

1. Read Fahrenheit 451 p. 69-91, "The Sieve and the Salamander" (I like to call this part "Faber")
2. Annotate the text.
3. Society & Today poster/glog project continue
4. VPP15 - work on it. Test & packet Thursday.

Mr. Power's glog sample starter (view at full size)
Mr. Power's glog name: mrpower451


Transcendental quotes:
Walt Whitman

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem..."


Henry David Thoreau
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." 


"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."


"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."


Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always do what you are afraid to do"


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."