English 30: reading these, making these, writing these, discussing these

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Write a personal essay in response to one of the following:

1. Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep. When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that they failed to keep? Or when did you break a promise that you made to someone else?
2. All of us are works in progress with a long way to go before we reach our full potential. In what skill or area are you still working to make progress?
3. Our society uses the word hero in many different ways?

1. Macbeth puzzles over 2 "riddles." 2. Thermoptic Camouflage 3. Macbeth hopes for an emergency. 4. 5. Lex Caesarea?? 6. Lady Macbeth's "slayer."

1. Strange Brew 2. Cop Killer 3. "Your father... was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force." 4. I got a mojo, too. 5. A Confessor?

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1. "No less material" 2. "Under [his] thumb" 3. "Kids Wanna Rock" 4. "when the President does it, that means it's *not* illegal!" 5.

Found this today. http://www.speakout.alberta.ca/ Alberta Ed "Speak Out" website invites students to be interactive with blogs/forums. Follow "Council" link and minister wants applications for Student as Advisors from 22 "zones". Fine print: "As your rank grows from Newbie to Member to Advanced Member with your posts, our Speak Out Team will add it all up and use it towards your Conference and/or Council applications." IB students from Harry Ainly got the jump it appears. Grumble, grumble. We need to giv

A student asked me today, "When are we going to start that Poetry unit?" I have more than once looked at the cardboard box of Grade 10 poetry textbooks and asked the same question.

We've been asking questions about the world. Some have read Plato's Cave Allegory. Our discussions have tried to be more philosophical.