No, not school, sillies! Footloose! The video is here, on the blog, for those who can't get enough of it or were not in class today. :-) (Personally, I love this one!)
More from yesterday on TV-oholism:
In addition to all of those timeless "classics" that I now I watched during the four years I attended high school back in good old New Hampshire, I also watched the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox on TV--the Patriots were absolutely NOT worth wasting time on--and occasionally in person, reruns of sixties favorites like Star Trek, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, Man (and Girl) From U.N.C.L.E., The Dick Van Dyke Show, Get Smart, McHale's Navy, The Patty Duke Show, My Favorite Martian, Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Wild, Wild West, Hogan's Heroes, The Andy Griffith Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, or Candid Camera, or game shows like I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, Password, Hollywood Squares, The Dating Game, What's My Line, The Newlywed Game, The Match Game, or Family Feud. Or, on Saturdays, kids' programming like HR Pufnstuff, Rocky and Bulwinkle, Super Friends, The Dudley Do-Right Show, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby Doo Where are You, or Underdog. Or even news programs once in a while, if the topic was interesting.
(And the Watergate hearings, for example, held my interest solidly as long as they were televised.)
Almost none of these, of course, was a "can't miss" show. Except for "Dark Shadows." I hated missing that. :-) And it was on every day at 4:30.
Anyway, back to today...
CW: we'll be writing poetry this weekend. The topic will be an object in your room. The poem does not need to be about the object, but the object has to be significant within the poem. And you will be composing at least two poems in two completely different styles using the same object.
E3H: poetry tomorrow: read the first three metapoems on the "Metapoems" page on the E3H pages/Projects. Prepare for discussions (and remember that your parents are coming next Tuesday! Make 'em proud!)
E2CP: We're talking America here. Two of America's most important philosophers were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two New Englanders who called themselves transcendentalists. I'm posting some of their ideas here. Read through this list of quotes. It's kind of long; don't worry about taking it all in completely, but I want you to find at least four quotes from each of them that really seem completely American to you. Copy these down and bring them tomorrow and be ready to explain your choices.
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