Daily Lesson Plan

Daily Lesson Plan:

1. Read a poem from Poetry 180. Write a paraphrase or response.

2. Read Today in History, On This Day or This Day in History. Write down one cool fact or event that happened today. Why is it cool (or not)?

3. Check the weather forcast for this week at www.almanac.com or www.farmersalmanac.com. What should we expect?

4. Go to Word of the Day or Dictionary.com. Write down today's word and use it in an original sentence.

5. Open the Oxford English Dictionary. Then locate and copy a definition, etymolgy and usage quotation for the next ten words from 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know.

6. When you're finished, check out the news from another city at The Newseum. Summarize one news story.

7. What happened Today in Literature?

Tech and Toys

Read the following New York Times articles about technology and toys:

Babes in a Grown-up Toyland

Risky Business

To Know Me, Know My IPod

George Ella & Linda

NCTE

Multi-Genre Autobiography Sites

4/5 English 11:
Brian
Aspinder
Hristo
6/7 English 11:
Ali
Brad
Sam
Vijay
Katie
Justin
Josh
Kyle
Tyler
Kyle
Abby
Marie
Bush

U2 and Apple

Gates vs. Jobs: The Rematch
By SAUL HANSELL, NYTimes, November 14, 2004.

THE history of Apple Computer can be told through its advertisements as well as its products. There was, of course, the commercial that introduced the Macintosh. It was broadcast exactly once, during the 1984 Super Bowl, and signaled the company's bid to reclaim leadership in personal computers from I.B.M. and its tiny, little-known software partner, Microsoft.

Late last month, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chairman, rented an ornate theater here to promote Apple's latest advertisement for its iPod music player - a crisp psychedelic montage of the Irish pop band U2 playing "Vertigo," a song from its next album. Unlike the 1984 commercial, this one is intended to help Apple preserve a big, and growing, lead in the marketplace.


U2: The Catharsis in the Cathedral
By JON PARELES NYTimes, November 14, 2004.


U2 rehearsing songs from a new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," in Dublin.


"The Goal Is Soul."

Piter and Steve

More candles

Candles

More people

Who are these people?

Hypertext and Weblogs

A Romantic View of Weblogs

Poems on Poetry

Poems on Poetry

Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks appearing November 16, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ohio Theatre.

Representative Poetry On-line

Representative Poetry On-line
"Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes about 2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.

Its electronic founder and editor since 1994 is Ian Lancashire, who is a member of the Department of English, University of Toronto. He edits the poems in affection for and gratitude to their authors, whose works enrich and restore our lives."

"Vectors 2.0: More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays"

Poetry Daily: James Richardson, "Vectors 2.0: More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays"

YOUTH VOTE / Young voters preferred Kerry, but turnout wasn't high

YOUTH VOTE - Young voters preferred Kerry, but turnout wasn't high

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Flamingnet

Flamingnet: "Flamingnet is an an Advance Book Reviewer for Penguin Books, HarperCollins Books, and Scholastic Books. All of these books are reviewed by Student Reviewers who are all preteens or young adults."

Frank Rich: Decision 2004: Fear Fatigue vs. Sheer Fatigue

The New York Times - Frank Rich: Decision 2004: Fear Fatigue vs. Sheer Fatigue: "While the mantra of this election season has it that Kerry voters are voting against Bush, not for Kerry, it's equally possible that some of them see their choice as a vote for mundane, nuances-and-all reality over a hyperbolic fantasy whose budget in blood and money has spiraled out of control. "