9/30 when september ends...

WAKE UP!!!

:-)

Yes, September is over, and with it the first six weeks of the school year. Gone. Gone with the wind. Gone with the fleeting memories of summer. Gone with-- Oh, forget it. You're not reading this nonsense anyway. Why bother? All you want from these things is to scroll down to your bloody class and see what the assignment is. If you even do that. I mean really: what kind of a nutcase am I to believe that anyone actually bothers to check this silly page day after day to see what kind of inspired or (mostly) uninspired lunacy I come up with? Seriously, I ought to have my head examined. I'm going to go to bed now. Wake me when September ends.

What?


Crap.

CW: We were in the lab today and you wrote stuff and I had a few conferences. You know what didn't happen? We didn't make a huge dent in the Conference Chart, which after six weeks stands as follows: Emily 8, Justine 1, Natalie 5, Kevin 1, Jack 2, Haley 5, Ross 2, Mac 3, Katie 4, Marie 1, Natasha 1, Alex 1. If you don't have at least 5, you are behind.  Guess what time it is? Time for six week progress cards...


HW this weekend: Submit the piece you are currently most focused on to turnitin.com today or tomorrow and, starting Sunday, go online to provide feedback on others' pieces.

E2CP: We've been discussing Our Town this week and today we compared themes within it to the poem "Lucinda Matlock" by Edgar Lee Masters. Your HW this weekend is to focus on the sermon that the minister/Stage Manager gives near the end of Act Two (p 75) about how people go through life "two by two" and how the purpose of that journey is to have babies. Using Act Two as your reference and quoting from at least two different places within the act (other than the sermon itself), how does this speech portray what is going on in this act?

E3H: So we've been working on some poetry (Ch. 5 of Sound and Sense) this week. For the weekend, I have selected three of those poems, "Mind" (p 80), ""Toads" (p 82), and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (p 84) and created discussion groups at turnitin.com. Any time this weekend, head on over and get into these discussions. I'd like each of you to join all three conversations. You only need to post once in each, but you're not limited to that. :-) Take a look at what classmates are saying: this is a conversation; allow what has come before to develop into what comes next. Oh, and use the text.

A second assignment you have--a simple one--is to submit a 2.0+ draft of your "metapoem" piece from last week to turnitin.com by Sunday night. That's it; just submit it. Note: you are not required to bring it for conference on Monday. Choose anything you'd like for that.

And now: the weekly "Who has missed conferences?" List.

It's a doozy, because I missed last week, so it's a two-week wonder:


Allie G, Andy N, Peter D, Summer F, Andy N, Tucker W (2x!), Tommy W, Patrick W, Adam B, Katherine W, Claire J, Emma W, Laura C, Ahmmad T, Isaiah R, Amadeus K, Claire F, Martin K, Emmett P...

Plus from this past Monday and Tuesday, needing makeup by next Friday...

Kasia G, Brian H, Tom M, Angela W, Savanah S, Madeline C, Summer F (that's 2!), Emma B, Katherine J, Casey L, Gabriella T, Margot D, David G, Tommy S, Amanda G, Brian M, Robby S, Camron B, Meghan H

Let's go, guys!  Guess what week it is?  Six week progress card week!


Have a nice weekend!

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9/29 back in the pink

I'm so happy to be feeling well again. Sick is no place to be, I assure you. Anyway...

If you did not see last night's post, check it out for the book recommendation. I really mean it: Jasper Fforde is a genius. As for tonight:

CW: Join turnitin.com! My CW class is at 4417082. Tomorrow, bring the latest draft of all prompt-begun pieces.

E2CP: Join turnitin.com! My E2CP class is at 4417073. We will be working on Act Two tomorrow. (Are you reading Act Three?)

E3H: Join turnitin.com! E3H-7 is at 4417074 and E3H-8 is at 4417079. Read through and consider the following poems from Ch 5: "Metaphors," "Toads," "Dream Deferred," and "Mind."

Here's P!NK...



and today's video fun:


IT'S THE 90S! from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.

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9/28 80%

It's the end of the day and I'm up to 80%, I think, of my usual energy. I began the day at about 50%, so progress is being made.

Utterly Random Book Recommendation:


I have spent a lot of time in the past few months reading almost the entire canon of a British author named Jasper Fforde. (I have at this point one book left.) He is an awfully impressive writer: full of impish wit and outrageous imagination. His unorthodox techniques assume a bit of intelligence on the part of his readers: the fact that a book might be set in the world of Nursery Rhymes, for example, does not mean it is at all for children.

Fforde was recommended to me by an alumna, Danielle Pullan, who told me that I absolutely had to read his Shades of Grey. She was right. And once I had entered his rather skewed world, I couldn't get enough. I moved on to the odd universe of Thursday Next, a "literary detective" who is at the center of what is so far a six-book series. I'd recommend starting with her. Pick up a copy of the first book in her series, The Eyre Affair, in which her investigations end up taking her into the novel Jane Eyre. I told you Fforde was impressive.


By the way, there is tons of silliness just on the guy's website!

Anyway, on to more pressing matters...

CW: I'd like to do a sort of inventory tomorrow. Could you bring the latest draft of each of the prompts?

E3H: Continuing to explore Chapter Five: read the rest of the poems in this chapter. Look for the use of figurative language.

E2CP: Moving on into Act Two tomorrow, but start reading Act Three as well.

Here are a few Someecards for you...

Have a nice evening...

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9/23 weird week is over

I'm not talking about theme days. I'm talking about the way that my schedule messed with the classes this week. Oy! And then, for my juniors, today's internet-based fiasco? What a strange week.

Ah well...all good things must come to an end, and this has ended so that proves that things that aren't so good end as well. Time to move into the weekend.

GO SCOUTS!

CW: Over the weekend, if you have not done so already, finish your drafts of the "homage" piece.

E3H: Today we tried to get online to set up the google group that was supposed to have been the bulletin boards. You should have all received invitations to join. Do so please and then check back if the opening post is not yet there instructing you what to do. (You might fill in a profile for yourself at this time.) That opening post will tell you your homework.

E2CP: Today we finished reading Act One. Over the weekend:

1. For Sunday evening: write a one-page essay discussing the letter that Jane Crofut received from her minister and its importance to Act One. Consider what it says about her place in the universe and also how it connects to scenes and lines we have already found in the play. Conclude with a few lines about how this theme might be relevant in your world as well. Email this to me before school on Monday.
2. For Monday morning: write a new draft or new piece for Writing Workshop.
3. For Tuesday: Read Act Two. 

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9/22 neon colored mea culpas

Whoa! I missed a day! Don't quite know how that happened; I must have been so focused on preparing for today's meeting that I just plum forgot! Oops. Sorry...

And while I'm in a mea culpa kind of mood, I just want to mention something about the videos. Occasionally I consider posting something that straddles the fence between PG-13 and R (if videos had these ratings). Usually I reject these because, well, you're high school students and I'm your teacher, and there are plenty of videos out there that don't straddle those lines. Every once in a while, though, one sneaks by. Sometimes I think its message is worth the stretch; sometimes I just miss it; sometimes I watched it a year ago and plain don't remember it. I'll try to do better in these areas, but should anything uncomfortable sneak in, please let me know: my purpose is to entertain you, not to rattle you. A little language, I think, is not much of an issue: you hear worse in the hallway. But if it slips into "automatic R" territory...

Anyway...

On to the class info for 80's Day, also known as "Let's Wear More Bright Neon Than Was Actually Sold in the 80's Day."

CW: we're back in the room tomorrow trading pieces. I'm looking forward to hearing some of your homages. Also...some of your shared journal pieces...

E3H: Metapoems!!!  Your assignment was to write them; now it is to bring them in to share!


E2CP: Our Town... We will move back into Act One and (I hope) maybe even finish it! We shall see. :-)

Alliance met for the first time today. In honor of that, here is someone you all know with a message to those who are "different":

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9/21 it's not easy being green

So much for crayon day.

I did see a fair amount of monochromatic folks around the school today, but there need to be more to make it really fun. Wonder what tomorrow will bring?

CW: We were in the lab today; tomorrow it's back tot he class, more journal sharing, and more conferencing!

E3H: Are we ever going to have a regular class this week? WW yesterday, counselors today, RW Thursday... Good Lord! Well, tomorrow we'll be back in the wonderful wacky world of metapoems. Meet me there, OK? Let's examine these poems, all of which harbor food metaphors, especially: "How to Eat a Poem," "Eating Poetry," "Several Things," and "A Loaf of Poetry."

E2CP: This time, do you think you might actually, I don't know, read Act One of Our Town?

Enjoy this Crayon Day-themed video:

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9/20 jersey day

Nope. I'm not wearing a jersey. Of course, I have to ask myself: did I remember at all that it was Jersey Day when I got dressed this morning? And the answer is a resounding NO! So we'll see if I remember or can put together an outfit for Crayon Day tomorrow...

All classes...


Just look at Friday's blog; nothing has changed. :-)

This is your school year. This is your school year in animation...

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9/16 what? another two-day weekend? what a rip-off!

It's Friday. Aren't you all happy? :-)

Here is today's lineup of Very Important Stuff (VIS):

CW: You have a letter to write. Weekend prompt: take an entry from your journal and expand it into a piece for workshop. Oh, and while you are at it, make sure entries are marked for sharing; that begins next week!

E3H: Good discussions today on the metapoems! Next week we'll write our own! For now, have a good weekend and make sure your journal entries are marked for sharing; that begins next week!

E2CP: Nice discussion today on Walden! We'll be visiting Thoreau-and-Emerson-ville again as we start examining Our Town (which you should read Act One of by Tuesday). Monday is of course Writing Workshop!

The following sophomores and juniors did not show up for conferences this week: Angela Waddel, Savanah Shea, Ahmmad Tbakhi, John Roberts, Claire Farrell, Allena Lawrence, Margot Dempsey, David Glynn, Isaiah Reyes, Steven Schur, Amadeus Kozera. To everyone: if you have not yet had a conference with me, you should have.


The following is the CW conference table as it currently stands:
Emily 5, Justine 0, Molly 1, Natalie 1, Kevin 0, Jack 1, Haley 3, Ross 1, Mac 3, Katie 3, Colin 1, Marie 1, Natasha 0, Alex 0. CW students should have a minimum of 3 by now.

Is it hockey time yet?

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9/15 knee-bruising

I sit here at the desk table on which sits my classroom computer, having carefully slid my legs under it sort of diagonally below its front to avoid the serious knee-bruising I was getting for the first week of school. I am staring at the screen, trying to think of something remotely interesting creative to say in today's post, ideas having abandoned me today like ticks dropping from a corpse so many leaves scattering in the wind.

Are you actually reading this drivel? Perhaps I should just get on with the important content. Here we go...

CW: After lab time today, we'll be back in 305 tomorrow to wrap up the week conferencing and talking about where everyone stands.

E3H: Today's exercise with window notes for "Examination: The Function of Art" takes us to our next phase, and your assignment is to read any ten of the poems at the link below that poem. Then choose three that you particularly like, copy them into a single Word file, print it out, and bring it in tomorrow.

E2CP: We will (actually) discuss "Walden" tomorrow. :-) I mean, it's nice to have impromptu workshops and all, but...

Need some inspiration?



And here's a perfect Christmas card:

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9/14 after the short day

To keep it short I need to get going...

CW: write write write

3H: Nice discussion of "The Juggler" today. Work on the last two poems you were to read online.

2CP: RW today. Tomorrow we're in "Walden"; read the parts you have not already read. :-)

And now, a word from our sponsor:

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9/13 don't look now, but your house is open

Ah, Parents' Open House. :-) I actually enjoy this night and P/T Conference night a lot, crazy, long and insane as they may be. I'm looking forward to meeting up with some of your folks this evening...and then (along with you) sleeping in a bit tomorrow. :-)

About tomorrow...

CW: The short period will find us diving directly into conferences, sans journal time.

E3H: We discussed "Ars Poetica" today and started "The Juggler," and your HW tonight is a single paragraph in your journals exploring the latter poem and why we might "batter our hands" because the juggler/poet has "won for once over the world's weight."

E2CP: We discussed Thoreau's sojourn to Walden pond today. For Thursday, read the unassigned parts of "Walden" online (the parts about Nature). Tomorrow's short period is RW; there will be no journal time, just straight into reading after the announcements (if these are not moved to 8th as they sometimes are on short schedules).

Best Flash Mob Ever:

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9/12 is this the last day of summer?

All I know is the temps are going down tomorrow with no "up" in sight, so we shall see. But today was nice. :-)

CW: We talked college apps.  Keep on draftin'!

E2CP and E3H: Today was WW; check Friday for assignments. :-)

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9/11 ten years after

Ten years ago, Jon Stewart began The Daily Show this way on his first show back after 9/11:

The Daily Show
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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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9/8 shoes, fly!

Well I now own one fewer pair of brown sandals...

Actually I think I only owned one pair of brown sandals...

Oh well.

Ode to a Dead Pair of Shoes


O once-solid once-whole coverings
designed to complement outfits
built from brown skirts,

Why do you lie, torn and broken,
in pieces, your soles hanging by threads,
mere echoes of your former selves,
in a dustbin by the schoolhouse door?

Why risk oblivion by slipping your heels
from frames, destabilizing what had been
stable, creating chaos in the early chill
of an autumn morning?

As both soles slid inexorably toward
foot covering heaven, I trudged, feet clad
now in the too-white of tennis shoes,
toward my classes, and, with no final eulogy,
let you slide into the open hole in the dustbin's side.

And now, dammit, I'm going to buy something better that won't fall apart.

CW: We're still working on the fleshing out of the outline for the Novel-That-Exists-Only-In-Your-Imagination for which you can create your Open Door or Prologue piece. Keep working!

E2CP: Some good discussion today. Tonight, look again at the Emerson section online. (Same section.) Why does he say some of the sharper things that he says, like "Your goodness must have an edge to it, else it is none"?  Later in that essay, he says this:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.--'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'--Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
What does he mean by this?

E3H: We had some good discussions about the "Not Marble" poems today. Tomorrow is Reading Workshop, but we'll be heading into more metapoems for next week. :-)

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Here is what is going on at the site of the World Trade Centers, along with a CGI rendering of what it will look like when it is finished:

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9/7 daughter needs me, so a quickie today

My daughter has to get to a doctor visit, so nothing fancy today. :-(

CW: After today's journey through some prologues and first chapters, your job is to create a piece that opens a door into a new world of the book you may never write. This is a prologue to something greater. We do not know what lies behind this door; you are writing our first glimpse of your world. Tease us into wanting more.

The first step? You need to figure out what the "novel" would be and outline it to some extent. (Otherwise you couldn't possibly write a prologue.) So that's tonight's assignment, and don't worry if you don't succeed tonight. Planning a novel takes time. But do start trying to think about it. Gather some thoughts and ideas together.

E3H: Today we discussed a couple of poems to set the stage for a poetry unit. For tomorrow, read "Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" (both of them) on the "metapoems" page accessible from the E3H pages. Try to make meaning out of them using Billy Collins' methods.

E2CP: Today we had Reading Workshop. Tomorrow we'll be starting to discuss something new from Emerson. You can find it here. You will be reading part of the excerpted essay on Self-Reliance. Start at the paragraph beginning "These are the voices which we hear in solitude" and read through to" "the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The usual five questions will apply. :-)

Your daily video:

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9/6 A short week

Sometimes short weeks can seem very long. Let's hope this isn't one of them. :-)

So, to review:

Tom and Eddie's. Vernon Hills. Formal dress. Free food. What are you waiting for???


CW: Here is what we went over:

• its/it's
• your/you're
• their/their/they're
• all right
• sneaked
• apostrophes in plurals
• random quotations
• lie/lay

Oh, yes, there was a bit of conferencing too. :-) More of that tomorrow!

E2CP: We went over the Workshop Summary. <-- Use this link  to get there and make one for yourself. Save it as "WS your name." Do not use the space bar to make columns! Tomorrow we will move on to some more Emerson. It is Reading Workshop tomorrow!!!

E3H: Here is what we went over:

• its/it's
• your/you're
• their/their/they're
• all right
• sneaked
• apostrophes in plurals
• random quotations
• lie/lay

Oh, yes, there was a bit of conferencing too. :-) Tomorrow we will move on. Bring eager minds.

Video of the day:

Last year this woman's "e-harmony" video went viral. Then the Gregory Brothers and their silly autotuning grabbed it and it went viral again:

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9/2 Labor Day? This post didn't take much labor at all!

So as we take a Monday off for the first time this year to celebrate the important impact that organized labor has had on all of our lives (and to bid a sad and fond farewell to summer), we must all keep in mind that it will be five weeks before our next visit from the magical three-day weekend fairy. This is the single longest such period in the entire school year.

So enjoy this weekend. You've earned it. And the next one is a long ways off...

CW: Work on revisions this weekend, and/or start a new piece. Finish your 20-topics journal list in addition to other entries. (Remember: 20 entries/week.) Watch for a letter; I'm working on one.

E3H: Write a 2-page essay answering the question I posed yesterday: Can the hunger artist be considered an artist if seen through the prism of the art quotes? Be sure to use quotations from both the story and the packet for support. Email this to me by Monday (Labor Day). Don't forget to write in journals. (Remember: 10 entries/week.)

Essay Parameters:

• Times New Roman 12-point font
• one-inch margins
• single-spaced header stating name, date, your class (left or right ok)
• skip line after header; center title (try a creative title)
• skip line after title; start essay
• double space essay
• page number in footer

E2CP: Write an essay of at least one double spaced typed page (Times New Roman, 1" margins) that explores one of the following thoughts from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." In your essay, quote from Thoreau to support your interpretation of what he is saying and whether his ideas represent a realistic view of the world.

1. "This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." 
2. "I meet this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year — no more — in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present posture of affairs, the indispensablest mode of treating with it on this head, of expressing your little satisfaction with and love for it, is to deny it then. My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with — for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel — and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action? I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — if ten honest men only — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefore, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
3. "As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way; its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconciliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is an change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body.  I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
4. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? — in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
   [It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

And with that I bid you adieu. Have a lovely weekend!  Enjoy this silly video. I've provided today's Silly 70's song also, for whatever you'd like to do with it. :-)

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feeling hot hot hot

I've been feeling pretty frosty, actually, for most of today, since my classroom has been doubling as a walk-in refrigerator, but I know that out there in the Land Beyond LFHS there are temps in the 90s. So I'm sort of feeling hot-hot-hot in anticipation. :-)

Anyway...

CW: Today we worked in Writers' Circles for the first time. Tomorrow we'll be in the lab, but we'll still meet here in 305 first.

E2CP: Today we started discussing "Civil Disobedience." We will continue that tomorrow. Thought question: Have you ever done something that was a knowing act of civil disobedience? Why?

E3H: We continued our discussion of "A Hunger Artist" by way of a discussion of fads. Tonight you were asked to ponder and outline an essay that would explore the following question: Would the "hunger artist" be considered an artist if seen through the prism of the art quotes we have been reading?


A bit more Disney...a lovely little original remix...

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