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Current Class Schedule:
Classroom 114
2nd Period- American Literature Honors
3rd Period- American Literature Honors
4th Period- American LIterature Honors
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May 20, 2009
March 06, 2008
Many Voices for Darfur: The Darfur Tragedy- Speak Up! Web 2.0 can help!
http://www.cfr.org/publication/13129/ - click here for an interactive website and video explaining what is going on in Darfur
http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com : Click here to post on a blog and read other bloggers ideas about Darfur
http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/many-voices-for-darfur-project/#comments - Click here for a brief introduction to the Many Voices for Darfur Project
http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/ -- THE WIKI FOR POSTING
January 31, 2008
Pretty Good
Each day I watch students make decisions. Decisions not to cheat. Decisions to do the work. Decisions to skip school. Decisions to defy a teacher, or a parent. Decisions to help a friend. Decisions to recycle. Decisions to steal. Decisions to share.
I do not ask for perfection. NO! Rather, I want to encourage students to shun perfection, which is unreachable, and to embrace excellence instead. Many students are afraid of excellence. Afraid of working hard. Afraid of success. I've watched excellent people settle for becoming pretty good, and I think that is a pretty sad state of life. When I read this poem tonight, I found it very applicable.
"Pretty Good" by Charles Osgood, from the Osgood File, 1986
There once was a pretty good student
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher
Who always let pretty good pass.
He wasn't teriffic at reading,
He wasn't a whiz-bang at math,
But for him, education was leading
Straight down a pretty good path.
He didn't find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well,
And he did have some trouble with writing,
Since nobody taught him to spell.
When doing arithmatic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine.
5+5 needen't always add up to be 10;
A pretty good answer was 9.
The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school,
And the student was not an exception:
On the contrary, he was the rule.
The pretty good school that he went to
Was there in a pretty good town,
And nobody there seemed to notice
He could not tell a verb from a noun.
The pretty good student in fact was
Part of a pretty good mob.
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.
It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life could be tough,
And he soon had a sneaking suspicion
Pretty good might not be good enough.
The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state
Which had pretty good asiprations
And prayed for a pretty good fate.
There once was a pretty good nation
Pretty proud of the greatness it had,
Which learned much too late,
If you want to be great,
Pretty good, is, in fact, pretty bad.
November 29, 2007
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