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Grade 10's please look over this web link.  http://web.cortland.edu/russellk/courses/prjdis/html/scudst.htm#what

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Romeo_and_Juliet/0.html

Please edit and rewrite your " epiphany " paragraph and hand in next class! 

Check it out! Here is what a group of Montreal students are doing to protect culture from corporate influx into our public lives: http://citizen.nfb.ca/node/7102&dossier_nid=1093

Follow the link to watch this creative ad and determine: 1) the intended audience, 2) the main purpose,and 3) the message. http://www.pomegranatephone.com/

View each of these following ads and comment. Explain your response with detail. What is the message? How is it communicated? What techniques are used and who is the target audience? What do you think about the effectiveness of these ads? The following ad almost spoofs the other with a more direct topic. What is ironic about it?

Okay folks, follow the link here to play R&J Jeopardy!

Hi All, Need help understanding Shakespeare? Check out this link: www.shakespearehigh.com/classroom/guide/page1.shtml Click on the Students section and read over "Shakespeare's Life". Be sure to do the quiz at the end. Many of the questions on this site will appear on your in class quiz! Have Fun!

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. -- Anne Frank. Hi All, Those of you reading Night might like to link to Elie Wiesel's page. Find out more about why it is he won a Nobel Peace Prize. To support your understanding of the events during World War II and what we have come to know as the Holocaust, you may also want to check out this Holocaust Memorial site. Folks reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas may be interested to know that Mark Herman has just released a film version of this heartbreaking novel. It is sad how we, as humans, are capable of such destruction. Yet, so often, and perhaps paradoxically, the human spirit is also capable of rising beautiful and awe inspiring out of the ashes of desp...

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird , Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus Re-reading Harper Lee 's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird has me thinking about a few things. For one, the world can use more men like Atticus Finch. Atticus strikes me as a true hero, a man who understands what it means to have integrity . His sense of justice includes being true to his conscience and what it means to do the right thing. Even when the right thing seems to go against the cultural wave . This has to be what he means when he informs his children that his conscience is not controlled by "majority rule". As Atticus's choice to defend Tom Robinson brings change to the "tired old town" of Maycomb, the Ci...