Miss L. Has Class

I teach; what's your superpower?

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Princeton University

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Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people who he saved 50 years before.

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This post gained more than 100,000 notes in over a day. One of the most powerful things I ever posted. 

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Real life Heinz Dilemma?! The New York Times reports, Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight. Hmmmm.... sound familiar? Wink-wink? Nudge-nudge? Know what I mean?

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English 3, 4th Period Research Paper (due 10/11)

English 3, 4th Period Research Paper (due 10/11)

I thank you for a successful and productive first Socratic Seminar last week. I was genuinely impressed by your quality of interactions, underpinned by your evident research.

In facilitating our dialogue about the SAT, one of the most striking and repeated truths which emerged for me was your conclusion that alternate criterion for college admissions should be explored.

To that end, our…

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English 3 -- 4th Period Socratic Seminar Questions

English 3 — 4th Period Socratic Seminar Questions

Your first Socratic Seminar is 9/17. You have already received the articles around which our seminar will be centered, and should be reading, highlighting, and annotating these articles in order to give evidence-based responses to the following questions.

In its announcement, the College Board said that the current SAT did not focus enough on academic skills. Do you agree with this? What are…

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English 1 -- 8th Period Socratic Seminar Preparation Materials

English 1 — 8th Period Socratic Seminar Preparation Materials

Last week, the Heinz dilemma asked us whether we have a moral obligation or duty to

do everything we can to save another’s life. In our pre-discussion of the hot topics of BISP, we responded to the statement, “When you see someone being mistreated, you should always try to help.” Both of these discussions danced around the issue of bystanderism.

Bystanderism can be defined as not helping…

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was founded on June 30, 1971 as a legal activist center in the fight for justice and tolerance.

SPLC began as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. The Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin in Montgomery, AL. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond. Through the years, the Center has worked to make America’s Constitutional ideals a reality.  [Continue reading at the African American Registry.]

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nathansfishbowl said: What book?

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman :)

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NINTH GRADE HEARS THIS

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Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.

 Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via tunedintoteaching)

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"There is another Skywalker."

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Books today. Books tomorrow. BOOKS FOREVER

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My favorite thing about this today/tomorrow/forever adaptation is that it transforms an infamous piece of hate speech ("Segregation today/tomorrow/forever" -- George Wallace, 1963) in to something encouraging: in fact, books are notoriously how repressed and underserved members of minority populations gained the education and confidence to make strides for social change (think of Frederick Douglass). I am very on board with this reclamation of that phrase.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zachary Weiner. February 10, 2012.

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Barris: This is a world getting progressively worse. Can we not agree on that? Barris: What’s on the dessert menu?

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A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) is an adaptation of Philip K Dick's  novel of the same name.  The film was shot digitally, then animated using interpolated rotoscoping.  The movie Blade Runner is based on Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  Read or see these. You will enjoy them.

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Noah Charney:

From The Simpsons to Seinfeld, from Everybody Loves Raymond to Everybody Hates Chris, from Taxi to Arrested Development to Parks & Recreation, there is a highly-specific, minute-by-minute recipe used to write the vast majority of sitcoms out there. And once you know the formula, it makes it much easier to write them, and much harder to watch them without seeing that formula—the “sitcom code”—everywhere you look.

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An Ancient Relic of times long past.