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reading questions for Thurs. 10/2

  • Posted onSeptember 29, 2014October 1, 2014
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Team A reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 10/1 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. A novel’s opening is one of its most crucial moments. Choose any part of the opening—the first…

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persuasive essay: peer review and criteria

  • Posted onSeptember 24, 2014
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So, tomorrow: You’ll be in groups of three, which Maddie will assign at the beginning of class. First, share the docs: -open your essay in google docs -click “share” in the upper right corner, then select “anyone with the link can edit,” and finally click…

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the poem in ch. 10 of TFIOS…

  • Posted onSeptember 15, 2014
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…is the modernist classic “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” (by t. s. eliot). one of its most famous lines, which you will often encounter quoted out of context: Do I dare to eat a peach?

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reading questions for Thurs. 9/18

  • Posted onSeptember 15, 2014
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Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 9/17 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Imagine you are the script doctor tasked with adapting TFIOS for the screen, and the producers have…

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reading questions for Tues. 9/16

  • Posted onSeptember 14, 2014September 14, 2014
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Team B reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 9/15 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. How would the novel be different if Augustus narrated it? How would it be different if it…

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my favorite cultural critic

  • Posted onSeptember 11, 2014
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just wrote something that devotes a paragraph to The Fault in Our Stars. one of my favorite things about her is that she has no high-brow/low-brow hangups – she is as likely to like a formulaic network drama as an expensive HBO prestige show.

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busby berkeley’s influence

  • Posted onSeptember 9, 2014September 9, 2014
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Here’s two movies I can think of that are directly influenced by Busby Berkeley. This scene, from The Big Lebowski This scene, from 500 Days of Summer Would you call them camp?

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reading questions for Thurs. 9/11

  • Posted onSeptember 4, 2014September 10, 2014
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Team A reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Wednesday 9/10 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Judge this book by its cover. What decisions have the book designers made here? What do they…

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reading questions for Tues. 9/9

  • Posted onSeptember 4, 2014September 4, 2014
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Team C reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 9/8 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. Consider the review that Wilson writes for chapter 11. Why does it appear as a review, rather…

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tainted by the movie

  • Posted onSeptember 1, 2014September 1, 2014
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Have any of your favorite books been turned into movies? Or have you ever disobeyed the edict to “read the book first” before seeing the movie? When I rewatched the Celine Dion video (the official one, not the Oscars performance), I thought about that trend…

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