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Thursday, July 19, 2012
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Literature Adds to Reality
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” —C.S. Lewis
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Teacher Recommendations for Famous People
Teacher Recommendations for People You Could Research
You don’t
have to choose from this list, but you may be able to talk other teachers into
some extra credit if you do a great job on your PowerPoint!
English Department
Authors
Gary
Paulsen
J.K.
Rowling
Brandon
Mull
Suzanne
Collins
S.E. Hinton
Scott
Westerfeld
Agatha
Christie
Stephenie
Meyer
Christopher
Paolini
Meg Cabot
Darren Shan
Avi
Lois Lowry
Eoin Colfer
Robin
McKinley
Holly Black
R.L. Stine
Cornelia
Funk
Will Hobbs
Joan Bauer
Gary Soto
John Ritter
Judy Blume
Richard
Peck
Karen Hesse
Ally Condie
(local -- Matched)
Garth Nix
Caroline
Cooney
Chris Crowe
(local)
Walter Dean
Myers
Scott
O'Dell
Louis
Sachar
Ouida
Sebestyen
Wilson
Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Explorer:
Shackleton, Ernest
Theater / Drama
Our drama teacher suggests
William Shakespeare
Neil Simon
Arthur Miller
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Thornton Wilder
Agatha Christie
Sophocles
Euripides
Contemporary Theater (suggestions from Ms. Dorsey and Ms. Hansen) -- I haven't yet checked all of these for availability and appropriateness of information.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Michael Crawford (the Phantom)
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine and Broadway!)
Idina Menzel (Wicked, Enchanted)
Kristen Chenoweth (Wicked, Pushing Daisies, many others)
Audra McDonald (Ragtime, amazing Broadway star who came to Utah last summer to perform at the Hale Center Theater)
Donny Osmond (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat)
Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, sang with the Mormon Tab. Choir for a Christmas album/program)
From the Math Department:
The links below have modern mathematicians and historically significant mathematicians.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0192505.html
http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm
From Mr. Thornton:
Any classical composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, etc.) and also Guido de Arezzo (he was a monk who changed the history of music almost 1000 yrs. ago). Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, The Beetles, Elvis, Frank Sonatra, Ella Fitgerald, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Glen Miller, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, The King Singers and U2 are some 20th century musicians that have had a great effect on music.
From Mrs. Wettstein (Dance):
Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly
Our drama teacher suggests
William Shakespeare
Neil Simon
Arthur Miller
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Thornton Wilder
Agatha Christie
Sophocles
Euripides
Contemporary Theater (suggestions from Ms. Dorsey and Ms. Hansen) -- I haven't yet checked all of these for availability and appropriateness of information.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Michael Crawford (the Phantom)
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine and Broadway!)
Idina Menzel (Wicked, Enchanted)
Kristen Chenoweth (Wicked, Pushing Daisies, many others)
Audra McDonald (Ragtime, amazing Broadway star who came to Utah last summer to perform at the Hale Center Theater)
Donny Osmond (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat)
Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, sang with the Mormon Tab. Choir for a Christmas album/program)
From the Math Department:
The links below have modern mathematicians and historically significant mathematicians.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0192505.html
http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm
From Mr. Thornton:
Any classical composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, etc.) and also Guido de Arezzo (he was a monk who changed the history of music almost 1000 yrs. ago). Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, The Beetles, Elvis, Frank Sonatra, Ella Fitgerald, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Glen Miller, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, The King Singers and U2 are some 20th century musicians that have had a great effect on music.
From Mrs. Wettstein (Dance):
Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly
Ginger
Rogers
From the Media Center, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Bird:
We have "Biography Today" a series which would be a great resource for your students if you would like to use a print source. [Students, you could even look through the series to find famous people you'd be interested in.]
From Mrs. Hansen in the front office:
Try the Wild West Era, such as Billy the Kid
History/Social Studies Department
Mr. Wright suggests
Elizabeth the First
Marco Polo
Magellan
John Smith
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Paul Revere
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Marion
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Lewis and Clark
Andrew Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Joshua Chamberlain
U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Mr. Aiman (Technology) suggests:
From the Media Center, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Bird:
We have "Biography Today" a series which would be a great resource for your students if you would like to use a print source. [Students, you could even look through the series to find famous people you'd be interested in.]
From Mrs. Hansen in the front office:
Try the Wild West Era, such as Billy the Kid
History/Social Studies Department
Mr. Wright suggests
Elizabeth the First
Marco Polo
Magellan
John Smith
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Paul Revere
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Marion
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Lewis and Clark
Andrew Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Joshua Chamberlain
U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Mr. Aiman (Technology) suggests:
Henry
Ford (Moving assembly line)
Andrew
Carnegie (Started US Steel, Carnegie Hall)
Jack
St. Clair Kilby (Semiconductor)
John
Deere (Plow)
James
Watt (Steam Engine)
Rudolf
Diesel (Diesel Engine)
Eli
Whitney (Cotton gin)
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Background Knowledge is Important
Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing from the Louvre. However, after escaping with the goods, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of fuel. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”
Friday, July 6, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Live a Thousand Lives!
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." -- George R.R. Martin
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