Ten years ago, Jon Stewart began The Daily Show this way on his first show back after 9/11:
CW: This weekend you should receive a new letter from me. It is not the brand new one I failed to send last week, but another "from the archives" because I have a good one on college apps and now would seem like the time for that one. We will be discussing and working on college app essays next week along with everything we've already started...
E2CP: So, the concept of Transcendentalism has several aspects. It includes the notion of Self-reliance, the idea of Non-conformity, the concept of Respect for and Love of Nature, the conception of an Oversoul that connects all living things, and a few others you can see in an excerpt from Thoreau's Walden: the importance of Simplicity, the significance of Dreaming Big, and the critical importance of Getting All You Can Out of Life. If you go back to the Emerson/Thoreau pages, you'll find some excerpts from Walden. You don't need to read them for Monday, as that is WW. (Do a great new draft or piece for then!) But read them for Tuesday, OK? Here is what you should read: Where I lived and what I lived for, Conclusion, and then skim over the rest to see the kind of observations Thoreau makes while living on the edge of the pond.
E3H: Monday is WW. Today was RW. For Tuesday of next week, you will need to take a look at several poems on the same page we were examining, beginning with MacLeish's "Ars Poetica." In addition, read "The Juggler," "Examination: The Function of Art," and "For Poets." Be ready to discuss all of them on Tuesday! Be ready to whack words!
The following sophs and jrs missed their conferences this week and will need to find a way to make them up: Allie Gentry, Corinne Donohue, Joseph Schlosser, Jenna Lochiatto, Collin Smith, Andy Nelson, Chris Stride, Adam Blake, Andrew Freeman, Steven Schur, Tucker Wilson, Patrick Wald, Tommy Ward, Peter Durot, Savannah Shea, Willie Wolter, Ella Knudsen, Cole Moore.
The following CW people have yet to have a conference: Natalie Durot, Kevin Grube, Ross Durot, Colin Seikel, Natasha Wadhwa, Alex Wang. Why not???
At the top of this blog there are the five words that define our school's promises of wellness and social awareness. The posters we fill our classrooms with and the "Letters From the Loo" speak of statistics about teen drinking at LFHS and how the vast majority of our students choose not to indulge in this destructive habit. Of course, there are those who ignore the warnings, those who still somehow think it is "cool" to get plastered on weekends. For those folks, and for their friends, I offer the following little video:
And, just for kicks, the Coke commercial that inspired the world back in the 70's:
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