And one fine morning-- @hazel-pie - Tumblr Blog

NLMG- Life

I was reading one of Aparna’s posts, and I kind of had a little mini connection. My book has the themes of death and all, but these clones are living very short lives. They live to be about 30 before they die. And the people that are “in charge” of them teach them about things like art and sex and music and collections and friendships. It makes me wonder about Ishiguro and what he’s saying about life and the things that we value. These clones have only a few years to live, but they’re still living. And what Ishiguro has them doing is really interesting too.

What do you guys think you’d value most if you only have 30 years to live? It’s long enough to form relationships and real emotional connections, but is it long enough to be fulfilled? Is life as is long enough to be fulfilled?

hazel-pie

Here is an example of an awesome AP Lit student sharing her thoughts about her process. She is using the space to make her visible to other people so they can weigh in and help her out-- and she can come back to her thoughts at a later time.

#ahs20time3 #reflective #journal #ahs20time2

katesilverman-blog

Getting Started

For our 20 Time project, we have decided to do a project with photography. We both are excited to have a chance to go out and try to capture different parts of the world; some places that are right around the corner and others that are far away. We hope to inspire others to open their eyes to the world around them. This will be a challenge for both of us but we are excited to see where this project takes us.

~Kate and Heather

AHS 20Time Launch

I can’t wait to see what students study and create during 20Time! Let your creativity flow and take the learning seat!

#ahs20Time2

bookmania

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (via poetsandwriters)

tetw

You Can’t Kill the Rooster “Use the word y’all and, before you knew it, you’d find yourself in a haystack French-kissing an underage goat.”

Us and Them - Because they had no TV, the Tomkeys were forced to talk during dinner. They had no idea how puny their lives were, and so they were not ashamed that a camera would have found them uninteresting…

Three - A trio of the best Sedaris stories including The Youth in Asia, Jesus Shaves and Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities

Six to Eight Black Men - “The words silly and unrealistic were redefined when I learned that, in Holland, Saint Nicholas travels with what was consistently described as “six to eight black men.”

The Santaland Diaries - “The woman at Macy’s asked, "Would you be interested in full-time elf or evening and weekend elf?”

Guy Walks into a Bar Car - “We’ll kiss … now, I kept thinking. Then, O.K… . now. And on it went, more torturous by the second.”

Old Faithful - “I hear monkeys can really become surly once they reach breeding age.” “I could have told you that,” he said. “It happened with my monkey.” I tried to draw him out, but he won’t discuss his childhood monkey

Now We Are Five - Reflections on the death of a sibling

lastnightsreading

Chris McCormick at @literatibookstore, 5/4/16

poetsandwriters

“You get more out of the world if you approach it with questions rather than answers.”

—Chris McCormick (2016)

eduu-22

Reading The Work | 3

I was looking up “blond hair, blue eyes,” on google and I came across this article

The article goes on to say that the men surveyed (145,000 of them) were to put a specific value to different attributes in order to come up with the price for the optimal first date. First off, how weird is it for men to place monetary values on a woman’s attributes, as well as put (to some extent) extremely high expectations for us women? We are not products, we are human beings, JUST LIKE YOU!!! I honestly wanted to throw up after I read this article, it is just trash. There is no such thing as a ‘Perfect Woman,’ especially since everyone is flawed in their own ways. And the fact that this article idolizes the same type of woman that people idolized back in Pecola’s day (American 1940′s) shows that nothing has changed. The beauty ideals haven’t changed, and it pisses me off. There’s more than having ‘blond hair and blue eyes.’ People have brown hair, red hair black hair, curly hair, straight hair, fair skin, medium skin, dark skin, brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes…. I could go on. It just really stinks that people do not appreciate the different characteristics that others have. Like I said before, representation matters. If we all look and realize that we should love ourselves for who we are and appreciate others for who they are, then people would not go about and wish for drastic changes (i.e. Pecola’s desire for blue eyes bc she does not feel beautiful).

kreinbring65

Did you see the controversy surrounding Morrison? I think there’s a Michigan district, Northville(?), that’s considering banning your book.

hazel-pie

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde

poetsandwriters

What you notice is who you are.

Dana Spiotta (New York Times Magazine, 2016)

If this doesn't make you reflect upon how you look at the world, the people in it, and yourself, I don't know what will.

fishingboatproceeds

In which John discusses the American Library Association’s recent announcement that his book “Looking for Alaska” was the most challenged book in the U.S. in 2015, responds to those who try to get the book removed from schools and libraries, and discusses the role of teachers and librarians in American life.

You can find the list of the 10 most challenged books in the U.S. here.

Thanks to the American Library Association and the Office for Intellectual Freedom, and to all the courageous librarians and teachers out there who stand up for intellectual freedom and banned books.

did-you-know

Flocks of birds, no matter how large, are never led by a single individual. The movement is collectively controlled by each bird reacting almost simultaneously to the slightest change of direction by another flock member, as if they are of one mind. Source Source 2 Source 3

sketchplanations

Know your dashes: the hyphen, en dash and em dash.

OK, so you can get a little over the top about these, but I do notice when a hyphen is used to add a thought in text rather than the em dash which is obviously better made for it — and much nicer than using parentheses (). And — to go the full mile — why not use an en dash when you’re separating your page numbers 1–5 or months May–Sep next time?

Didn’t spot that?

- hypen

– en dash

— em dash

Most writing tools and OSes have tricks to do these automatically for you.