Greetings Great Ones,
Instead of all completing a reading card individually for Crime and Punishment, let's practice on this first card by each completing only one or two sections of the info card. Please click on the link to the Google Doc here, and add a detailed explanation of the section labeled with your name. For example, Emma will be listing examples of important imagery and diction used by Dostoevsky, along with notes about their significance in the work.
Type straight into the box, or copy-paste if you do your writing elsewhere. Try to keep your thoughts basically concise enough to fit in the box. Thanks!
Due beginning of class Wednesday.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Music Mondays
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Aesthetic sample using "November" by Azure Ray
Please add your own Music Monday links in the comments below! (the printout can just get emailed to me if you like, because we need to be able to make copies!)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
October MOR (due Nov. 1)
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Please partner up and read a
Contemporary novel (published after WWII) for your first MOR partner dialogue. As you read, you should
write four entries each (approx. 300-400 words per entry), conversing with each
other as you go, to analyze the text. Please refer to quotations from the text
and include at least one question for your partner in each entry. Your
dialogues may be informally composed (I/you/contractions ok), but they should
also demonstrate that you are reading deeply and keeping an eye on how the lit
devices that we are studying show up and help create deeper meaning. Don't
forget to discuss the ending!
You should post these dialogues on
one of your blogs. For example, Jaden might make the first entry by posting on
his blog, and then the rest of his and his partner's entries would be posted as
comments on that first post. (I highly recommend composing the posts in Word or
another program first, however, as it is easy to lose track of spelling, word
count, and even whole pages of content if one composes in the blogspot space
itself.)
A list of all works that have been suggested on the AP exam since 1971 can be found at this link (most frequently recommended works are also listed at the bottom). You may, of course, read a novel that is not on this list, but please make sure it is of sufficient literary merit that you might be able to use it on the open essay question of the AP test. If you would like any advice, I've got plenty!
A few recommendations that would not disappoint:
1984, George Orwell
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
ESFJ
I have in the past tested as both ENFJ and ESFJ, but ESFJ has come up most frequently.
Extravert(59%) Sensing(34%) Feeling(59%) Judging(1%)

This type is called The Caregiver on http://www.personalitypage.com/html/ESFJ.html
You can also explore your type at https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
(In your post, you will comment on some of the descriptions of your "type"--how are they accurate or inaccurate about you? And you will post the text/picture of your favorite affirmation of the three you collect.)
Extravert(59%) Sensing(34%) Feeling(59%) Judging(1%)

This type is called The Caregiver on http://www.personalitypage.com/html/ESFJ.html
You can also explore your type at https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
(In your post, you will comment on some of the descriptions of your "type"--how are they accurate or inaccurate about you? And you will post the text/picture of your favorite affirmation of the three you collect.)
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Creating a Blog
1. Go to blogspot.com (or click "create blog" up to the right here!)
2. Create a profile (I just did “Limited Profile”) (I do recommend not including your full name on your blog.)
3. Add “disherap2017.blogspot.com” to your Reading List (That’s our class blog! This one you're reading!)
4. Click “Create blog” (or “New Blog”)
5. Choose a Title and pick a url address. You can also pick a design template.
6. You should then see something like this:
7. Click “Start posting”
8. In the textbox that appears, post (1) your Myers-Briggs results & percentages (see mine in post below), (2) your commentary on which elements of the "Type Description" are like you and which are unlike you and why (quote from the websites and briefly comment), and (3) your favorite affirmation.
Link to take the Myers-Briggs Test:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Links to more commentary on your type:
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
http://www.personalitypage.com/html/careers.html
Link to take the Myers-Briggs Test:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Links to more commentary on your type:
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
http://www.personalitypage.com/html/careers.html
9. When you’re ready to have the blog appear, look for the buttons in the top, right-hand corner and click “PUBLISH” (or Preview...and then publish. You can always edit the post later if necessary.)
10. You can then click “view blog” to see how it looks. If you want then, you can play around with your blog settings by clicking “Design” in the top right corner to change up your template and layout. You tech savvy kids should be able to figure that out, but even if you can’t, the above steps should enable you to complete the required assignment..
11. VERY IMPORTANT: you should then email your blog address to me!
Yay!
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