AP Language Essay 1: Media Violence

It’s time for your first AP Language essay already. This first formal piece is due on Saturday at 1:00 for Periods 5&6 and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. for Periods 3&4. Some information you might find helpful: The prompt Notes on effective introduction writing. Notes on writing the AP argumentative response. Topic Sentence cheat sheet. The […]

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31 August 2012

Daily Wisdom

Welcome to the first Friday of the new school year–and your first three day weekend. Poem of the Day Among the Multitude by Walt Whitman Among the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than […]

August 31, 2012/by dpogreba

AP Language Essay 1: Media Violence

AP Language

September 3, 2012/by dpogreba

31 August 2012

Daily Wisdom

August 31, 2012/by dpogreba

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AP Language Essay 1: Media Violence

AP Language

It’s time for your first AP Language essay already. This first formal piece is due on Saturday at 1:00 for Periods 5&6 and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. for Periods 3&4.

Some information you might find helpful:

Turnitin Info

Password for all classes: pogreba

Class Numbers

Period 3: 5487713
Period 4: 5487717
Period 5: 5487720
Period 6: 5487724

Enjoy!

September 3, 2012/by dpogreba

31 August 2012

Daily Wisdom

Welcome to the first Friday of the new school year–and your first three day weekend.

Poem of the Day

Among the Multitude by Walt Whitman

Among the men and women, the multitude,

Uncle Walt

I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child,
any nearer than I am;
Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one knows me.

Ah, lover and perfect equal!
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections;
And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.

[pextestim name=”Sentence of the Day: D.H. Lawrence” img=”https://quixoticpedagogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/JlawrenceDH1.jpg”]“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”[/pextestim]

Fascinating Factoid

The Big Think notes that we are on the verge of being able to mine asteroids and the moon:

Since the US-based company Planetary Resources announced its intention to mine asteroids for precious minerals, legal questions have arisen over to what extent the concept of ownership can be applied to space rocks and territory on the moon. “In just under two years, Planetary Resources says it will launch the first of a series of space telescopes into low-Earth orbit in a bid to spot nearby asteroids of a size and mineral composition potentially worth mining.” A Las Vegas-based start up called Moon Express also plans to mine the lunar surface for minerals deposited there by meteorites.