The New Yorker

The Man with the Camera "This week, The New Yorker publishes a thirty-two-page portfolio, titled “Democracy,” by Richard Avedon. These portraits of Americans on the eve of the election were his last work before his death, earlier this month, at the age of eighty-one. Here, from the issue of October 4, 2004, Adam Gopnik remembers Avedon."

'Many Are Called': Petals on a Wet Black Bough

'Many Are Called': Petals on a Wet Black Bough
"Walker Evans could not have hoped for a better place to do his job, and he knew it. In the winter of 1938, when he finally began a long-planned and self-assigned subway photography project (he called it ''a project for love'') he wanted to do nothing but look at the people. And the people, working hard to wrap themselves in solitude, were his ideal subjects: they wore the classic look that subway riders have always worn -- the not-quite-prepared-to-meet-the-faces-that-you-meet face, a combination of public awareness and private abandon that may be unique to public transportation, especially the underground kind. Evans saw this displacement of the urban mask in even starker terms. ''People's faces are in naked repose down in the subway,'' he wrote." By RANDY KENNEDY, October 31, 2004

The Rap Against Rockism

The Rap Against Rockism "A rockist isn't just someone who loves rock 'n' roll, who goes on and on about Bruce Springsteen, who champions ragged-voiced singer-songwriters no one has ever heard of. A rockist is someone who reduces rock 'n' roll to a caricature, then uses that caricature as a weapon. Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher. " By KELEFA SANNEH NYTimes October 31, 2004.

Also, check out New York Times Sunday Book Review Essay:The Ancestors of Pop By ERIC WEISBARD.

On Language: Dead Heat

The New York Times Magazine: On Language - Dead Heat, by William Safire, October 31, 2004.

Kayaks from Kits

George called tonight - said John is building one of these:Chesapeake Light Craft Kayaks Wooden Kayaks

Gary Snyder at Mt. St. Helens

Mountain as muse - Its drama inspires, its power and inconstancy humble. To Gary Snyder, the cycles of Mt. St. Helens remind us of nature's deeper truths.

Bowling, anyone?

The New Geek Kingpins of Bowling

Linotype.com - Font Lounge

Linotype.com - Font Lounge

Wordorigins.com

Identifont - Free fonts

L'Abecedarienne's Original Handlettered Fonts

Election games let you battle for the presidency

Sim Shrum - Election games let you battle for the presidency. By Clive Thompson

Tate Collection

Tate Collection

Tate Glossary

Socratic Seminar

Socratic Seminar The Socratic method of teaching is based on Socrates' theory that it is more important to enable students to think for themselves than to merely fill their heads with "right" answers. A Socratic Seminar is a method to try to understand information by creating a dialectic in class in regards to a specific text. In a Socratic Seminar, participants seek deeper understanding of complex ideas in the text through rigorously thoughtful dialogue. This process encourages divergent thinking rather than convergent.

Society for Philosophical Inquiry: The Society for Philosophical Inquiry (SPI) is a grassroots nonprofit organization devoted to supporting philosophical inquirers of all ages and walks of life as they become more empathetic and autonomous thinkers who take active part in creating a more deliberative democracy.

Pre-Socratic Questions

Socratic Seminar Instructions

Socratic Rubric

The Future of Books

"The Future of Books," and "The Paradox of a Book" by Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte's Being Digital
More columns by Negroponte from

NPR : Bob Dylan: A Conversation

NPR : Bob Dylan: A Conversation

Horace Bristol and The Grapes of Wrath

Life Magazine - Grapes of Wrath at The Scream Online



The Grapes of Wrath: Horace Bristol Exhibit at the Getty

The Rose Gallery holds work by depression era photographers Horace Bristol and Dorthea Lange as well as contemporaries including Rosamond Purcell.

Dorthea Lange's Migrant Mother at the U.S. Library of Congress.

Dorthea Lange at the Oakland Museum of California

Grapes of Wrath links from the California Council for the Humanities, United Farm Workers and César E. Chávez Institute.

Poems by Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

"Reluctance" from A Boy's Will

Poems of Robert Frost

Nobel Peace Prize

Peace Prize Goes to Environmentalist in Kenya

Like a Tree, Unbowed

OGT, SAT & AP Test Prep

Ohio Graduation Test

Ohio LA Standards

Ohio Graduation Test Online Practice Tests

SAT Question of the Day

New SAT

AP Central

NYTimes Education Life

MLA Citation Guides

NoodleTools

Citation Machine

Writer's INC

Purdue OWL

Diana Hacker Online Style Manual

MLA.org

Bedford St. Martin's Online Style Guides

Multi-Genre Autobiography

You will be producing your own almanac patterned after the Autobiography Benjamin Franklin and Poor Richard’s Almanac. Your almanac will be a mixture of personal writing you have done for this class, information from research, and a review of a contemporary biography.



To make the project more interesting, you may want to organize your selections around a particular theme – a sport, a holiday, your hobby or place of employment. Your almanac must include the following:

1. Autobiographic Incident Narrative:
- Based on Life Map assignment
- Opens with trigger incident and closes with epiphany
- Includes at least five sensory details and three figurative devices
- 250 words – typed

2. Life-map - Holt pp. 130-131

3. Credo or Epitaph after the fashion of:
- Robert Fulgham or Ben Franklin

4. Copy-change poem following the pattern of one of the following:
- Where I’m From by George Ella Lyon
- I Live In . . . by Ntozake Shange
- When I Was Young in . . . by Cynthia Rylant

5. General Information – include at least two:
- Weather
- Phases of the moon
- Astrological Information
- Planting/Crop Information
- Holidays
- Proverbs or Aphorisms
- Recipes
For almanac resources see: www.almanac.com or www.farmersalmanac.com

6. Glossary of Slang – include at least 10 words with definition and usage. For Slang Dictionaries:
www.wordspy.com
www.slangsite.com/
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/a.html
Yahoo Slang Dictionary Directory

7. Strongsville Local Lore – write a short article and include a picture of one of the following:

- Living Strongsville Treasure –a person in Strongsville who embodies the spirit of your community and has a strong sense of place.

- Suburban Sanctuary – A place of peace and contemplation indoors or out where you can go to rest, relax and connect with your self.

- Essential Place in Strongsville – A location that represents the character and essential nature of the town.

8. Book Review of biography or autobiography of living person. Choose a book from
American Library Association Outstanding Biographies
Additional Literary Memoirs

Follow these guidelines for book reviews.

9. Works Cited for all information other than personal writing using proper MLA format – see Writers Inc., NoodleTools or Citation Machine.

10. You will be giving a speech for the class that includes your autobiographic incident, one other item from your almanac and a short book review of the biography/autobiography you’ve read. Submit final draft to Turnitin.com.

- Your almanac must be made up of at least 5 pages. Do not just copy and paste information from other websites. Make it attractive and interesting, as well as factual.

Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (May 14, 1928—October 9, 1967)

More about Che Guevara

Motorcycle Diaries movie site.

Riding My Father's Motorcycle By ALEIDA GUEVARA

Cool Bikes

My first motorcycle was like this 250 BSA.


Here I am on my 1983 BMW R100RS.


My 1982 BMW R100.

RTA Bus Card Project 2004 - Moving Minds: the Verse and Vision Project

RTA Bus Card Project 2004: "RTA Bus Card Project 2004"
RTA Bus Card Project 2004 - These four-colored bus cards are being displayed in more than 700 buses that travel the city each day. The poems are accompanied by artwork designed by the American Institute of Graphic Arts/Cleveland Chapter.

Moving Minds: the Verse and Vision Project

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The MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program: "The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work."

MacArthur Fellows on NPR

Norton Introduction to Literature

Welcome to LITWEB "This site is a guide for students who wish to learn how to think through their responses to a literary text, to better understand how to begin with their personal responses, to re-read creatively and analytically, and to ask questions that open the text up to different interpretations."

Further Guidelines for Reading Literature

Austrian Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Austrian Wins Nobel Prize in Literature: "Elfriede Jelinek, an intensely shy, quirky Austrian writer whose highly political works infused with feminism both unsettle and enthrall her readers, has won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday."

Dylan's Nobel Nomination Sparks Debate: "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a ... Nobel Prize-winning songwriter? It's a question being asked increasingly in literary circles, as the annual debate over who should win the Nobel Prize in literature -- to be announced Thursday -- tosses out a familiar, but surprising, candidate: Bob Dylan."



The Nobel Prize is an international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace. In 1968, the Bank of Sweden instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.

iPHOTOART

iPHOTOART: Photographic Collections from Life, National Geographic, Associated Press and more. See Writer's and Artists and Americana.

Museum Exhibits Online

Robert Frank

Six Reflections on the Photography of Robert Frank

The Aesthetic Triptych of Robert Frank

Route 66: Crusing the American Dream
"In Los Angeles, most people think little of driving for every purpose: to see a friend, to buy cigarettes or an ice cream cone, to watch the sunset. Your world is centered on the automobile, which gives you an unprecedented and addicting degree of freedo m. The freeway becomes as much a part of your life as the street you live on - perhaps you even know the former one more intimately. You accustom yourself to enjoy as much or as little of any particular amenity that you choose to pursue on the road: 'The freeway allows you to create your own life. Your community is not formed by geography or ethnicity or common interests, and it is not unusual to drive 45 minutes for a casual dinner with friends."

An Interview With Allen Ginsberg about Robert Frank

More about Allen Ginsberg

Richard Avedon

PBS American Masters - Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon in the New York Times

Richard Avedon at the Fraenkel Gallery

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Richard Avedon: Portraits

Digital Literature

Digital Literature

A Windfall of Modern Poetry for Scholars

Stephen Barclay Authors

Stephen Barclay Agency "With a strong emphasis on literature, we represent well over thirty-five speakers exclusively: Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur 'Genius' Fellows, National Book Critics Circle Award winners, Tony Award winners . . . Ira Glass, the host of public radio's This American Life; poets Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins; David Sedaris, NPR commentator and best-selling author; and novelists Michael Cunningham and Michael Chabon."