This blog has been created for students enrolled in my one and only section of English 10 Advanced. Feel free to ask questions, react to class assignments, or post thought provoking quotes, passages, and poems. This blog has been created to encourage and inspire the writer in each and every one of you! Start writing!
2) Respond/ React/ Reflect in a few detailed sentences. Remember to use textual evidence and to double check your grammar and your spelling before posting. Thank you!
We've found that posting the Art Connection or World Connection can be "tricky" on our Wiki Space. Therefore, you may post your work HERE! Be sure to label your entires and include your name. Thank you.
Ms. Tezuka and I decided to create a new space for your Literature Circle activities and responses. I've been checking on our blog and on our facebook account for responses, however, there are several people who have not responded thus far. This new space and format should be beneficial for your groups. Please feel free to make suggestions and we'll work through the formatting process together. Good luck! And thank you to everyone who has posted. I've enjoyed reading your posts.
After you've read your assigned text for the literature circles for 25 minutes, please discuss three key points or findings from the reading that you found to be interesting, disturbing, confusing, and/or thought provoking. Include why you felt this way about the reading. You do not have to post here; you may also use your writer's notebook or facebook. Thank you.
Feel free to post comments and ask questions about the book that you are reading for your literature circle HERE! You may also choose to post on our facebook account. However, you should decide as a group where you will post more often, on facebook or our blog. Good luck and read, read, read!
Please read the following poem and Respond/ React/Reflect:
"To Risk"...
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental,
To reach out for another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self,
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure,
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing,
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love....live.
Chained by his certitude's, he is a slave;
He has forfeited freedom,
Only a person who risks is free.
-William Arthur Ward
*** Consider making a text connection (self, world, or text). I'm giving you some academic freedom with your response. That is why I have NOT listed a plethora of directions =]
