No Direction Home

Guardian Unlimited Arts special reports Last night's TV
Scorsese's much-hyped film about Dylan isn't quite what it first seems,
but is remarkable, revealing and very funny.
Sam Wollaston September 27, 2005

No Direction Home on PBS.

Blog Sites

USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review
Are Bloggers Journalists?
This Is Not a Blog
Speaking Underground - Student Newpaper
CyberJournalist.net

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

My memory is like a film . . . . And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward and Pause like on a video recorder . . . . If someone says to me, 'Christopher, tell me what your mother was like,' I can rewind to lots of different scenes and say what she was like in those scenes.

NYTimes Review

Sharps & Flats

Sharps & Flats: EVERYTHING OLD IS Young Again
By Bill C. Malone
Salon Magazine

Spirit of Place - Barry Lopez

The Rediscovery of North America
Barry Lopez Orion Magazine Summer 1992
Online NewsHour: An Artistic look at Earth Day - April 22, 1996
Orion Magazine - Autumn 2001 - Barry Lopez
Orion Magazine Online Archive

Sherman Alexie

Native American author Sherman Alexie wrote the screenplay for Smoke Signals.
He also wrote Reservation Blues, a great read about Robert Johnson arriving at a Spokane Indian reservation and the inspiration he finds and leaves there. For more information:
Native American Authors: Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues-Home-Seattle University
Without reservations: A conversation with
Sherman Alexie

Author Visit: Tim O'Brien - Cleveland Public Library

Author Visit: Tim O'Brien
As part of the "Literature to Life" performance program, Tim O'Brien author The Things They Carried joins us September 28th at 7:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Public Library - Main Library.

Tim O'Brien has written a work of fiction, The Things They Carried, based on his experiences in the U.S. army during the Vietnam Conflict. It's chock full of real conflicts, real sadness, real friendships. This great book has now been made into a play by American Place Theater. Along with Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Public Library, Cuyahoga County Public Library is bringing this play to Cleveland. It will be performed in Playhouse Square's Idea Center November 11 - 18. Tim O'Brien, live and in the flesh, will visit the Fairview Park Regional Branch on Saturday, October 1 at 2 p.m. to discuss The Things They Carried and his experiences.

Sunday NYTimes 9-11-05

A Refugee Among Refugees: Questions for Andrei Codrescu
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Drinking It In
By JONATHAN MILES
LITTLE CHAPEL ON THE RIVER
By Gwendolyn Bounds
The Church of Reason
By Robert Pirsig
Among the Believers
By A.O. SCOTT
Highway 61, Visited
By STEVE DOUGHERTY
Highway 61 Revisited at BobDylan.com

9/11: The Enduring Salute

9/11: The Enduring Salute
By JEROME CHARYN
The Names
By Billy Collins
Sept. 6, 2002
Delta's Poetry Program Takes Off
Poets&Writers

Word of the Day

Princeton Review Word du Jour
Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
NYTimes Word of the Day
5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
Sparknotes 1000 Most Common SAT Words

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
"The editors of the American Heritage dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know."

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary and 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know (handout)

American Life In Poetry

"Cicadas at the End of Summer"
In this poem by New York poet Martin Walls, a common insect is described and made vivid for us through a number of fresh and engaging comparisons. Thus an ordinary insect becomes something remarkable and memorable.

Do You Speak American?

Do You Speak American? Sez Who?

Track That Word

Oxford English Dictionary

What Speech Do We Like Best?

Yosemite Falls

Yosemite Falls
Originally uploaded by dlackey.

Strongsville Open House 9-06-05

McDougal-Littell

Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass

Multi-Genre Autobiography

Turnitin.com

Ohio Graduation Test

Mrs. Lackey's Reading Life

English 11 and Honors English 11 Objectives

New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms

New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms - New York TimesBy ETHAN TODRAS-WHITEHILL
August 3, 2005

Summer Reading Lists

UC Berkeley Summer Reading List

"101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers"

NASA - Ingenuity: A Festival of Art & Technology September 1 - 4 Downtown Cleveland

NASA - Ingenuity: A Festival of Art & Technology
September 1 - 4
Downtown Cleveland

The battle of the century

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The battle of the century