Helpful Sites for Visual Aides and more....

http://www.pbs.org/search/search_results.html?q=immigration http://www.pbs.org/search/search_programsaz.html http://www.goodreads.com http://www.mygradebook.com nomadcarson@gmail.com

Friday, March 18, 2011

Goodreads! 3 more ORIGINAL POEMS due March 25, 2011 - Transcending the Gilded Age and FOUND POEMS

To upload three poems on Goodreads Groups:

1. click "Groups" 
2. Click MHSHS logo "MHSHS Reading Group"
3. scroll down to Transcending the Gilded Age
4. Click Transcending the Gilded Age
5. Follow instructions
6. Copy and paste poems into COMMENT box AFTER reading instructions
7. be sure to make sure layout [spacing] is fixed BEFORE... 
8. Unclicking "Add to my Update Feed" & "Email me when..."
9. click post 

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Assignment as seen on MHSHS Reading Group's Transcending the Gilded Age

During the Winter Break and in conjunction with our Transcendentalist and Gilded Age Units, scholars must produce at least three original poems of SELF, the effects of a transforming America and at least two FOUND POEMS (Thematic Huck Finn). This is your space to publish your edited, ORIGINAL (borrowed) Poetry. Due-March 25, 2011 --100 points


1. All submissions must first be peer edited by at least two other people. 

2. Final edits must come through Mr. Carson or Ms. Walrond before publishing on this site.

3. Hard Copies with your name and P2, P3, P6, P7 or P8 must be put in your Writing Folders.

4. Deadlines: March 25, 2011

5. No profanity or extremely graphic or gory materials.

6. VOCABULARY from last three weeks, LOCAL COLOR, DIALOGUE, SENSORY IMAGERY--a must.

7. NOTHING published without prior teacher approval.

8. All submissions will have a presentation element-perform your poems.

9. Don't forget to UNCLICK "Add to my Update Feed" and "Email me when people reply" fields to avoid extra e-letters with your submissions.

10. Feel free to leave constructive criticisms for any and all peer submissions.

Have fun!!! 






I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristole


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