Follow up to Slaughterhouse-Five Socratic seminar

Please choose at least 3 questions below and elaborate.  You may also respond to something that was said during the seminar, expand on something you already said in seminar, or respond to what has been written in this space.  How much you enjoy your grade is directly correlated to how much effort you put into this.

Possible questions:

• How in control of our lives are we?
• Billy Pilgrim is a hero, a victim, or what?
• Is peace possible?
• Did KV succeed in bearing witness to the bombing of Dresden by using the unorthodox structure he chose?  Why/why not?
• Where on the spectrum of "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" and "So it goes" do you fall?
• Poo-tee-weet?  (Since nobody touched that one in either class today, I will be especially excited to see answers to that one.)

Welcome, Class of 2014.

Rising seniors,
This is the place to post your entries for your summer reading anthology!  I've already heard from one student who's ready to post, so I'm updating the site.  Leave your posts as a comment to this one.

If you're looking for any good movies to watch over the summer, allow me to recommend (in no particular order or categorization):

The Godfather Trilogy
Better Off Dead
The Book of Eli
Lars and the Real Girl
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
As Good as it Gets
Rain Man
Stand By Me
The Shawshank Redemption
The Joy Luck Club

Please welcome the Creative Writing kiddos

This year, I have a ninth period Creative Writing elective with 13 writers from the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades.  Four boys, nine girls.  They're an eclectic mix of personalities and temperaments, and you will not have to take my word for it.  They are creating their own blogs this unit that will soon be linked to this one.  They will be required to write three blog entries each week until mid-April; if they continue to blog after that is entirely up to them. 

So, coming soon, the Individual Blogs of:
Damian
Daniella
Juana
Sophia
Delvia
Ana & Miranda
Jahaziel
Valeria
Anthony
Alexia
Allison
&
Jorge