Working on Juliet for English teacher- Verona fan 
this classic statue view, in the Piazza de Guilanna is from my photo album. I could do a Juliet series for all my beloved English teachers? Maybe not?
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I think what we see over and over again with technology is that as it – as a new popular technology begins to be woven into society, woven into our personal lives ever more deeply, we not only change the way we behave or the way we think, but we change what we value about human beings, about ourselves. And what scares me is not just the changes in thinking that the internet I think is promoting, but the way we see signs that we are beginning to devalue the whole idea of solitary thought, or contemplative thought or very attentive thought. And you see this in just changing kind of mores or social norms.
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THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE GREAT GATSBY is a lyrical portrait of American values in the 1920s, the personal and moral corruption of a culture based on the social and moral prerogatives of wealth. The novel depicts the “Roaring Twenties” as an era of greed, cynicism, and the mindless quest for pleasure. The characters symbolize these values.
F. Scott Fitzgerald juxtaposes Nick Carraway, the novel’s narrator and moral compass, and Jay Gatsby, the charismatic racketeer and romantic idealist; to the married couple Daisy and Tom Buchanan, members of the established old money class who lack Nick’s personal integrity and Gatsby’s idealism. Shown as “careless” bullies who smash lives as well as objects in their restless search for diversion, Daisy and Tom are admirably well suited to succeed in a world in which idealism is impossible and integrity is passé.
But Gatsby has made Daisy the incarnation of his dream of perfection. Her lovely voice is “full of money,” showing the meretricious link between beauty and wealth to Gatsby as well as American culture. To that end, Gatsby has spent his adult life amassing the wealth and social standing he thinks will win Daisy and therefore make his dream of recapturing the past by winning the “golden girl” come true. Gatsby’s dream is shattered by the reality of Daisy’s crass selfishness, symbolizing the destruction of the American dream. Just as World War I shattered America’s innocence, neither can Gatsby nor any other American return to the Edenic virtue of the prewar era. Gatsby becomes a mythic figure whose career and fate stand for America itself, our idealism in the face of the gross materialism that has destroyed America’s green freshness and left only a valley of ashes in its wake. (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/thegreatgatsby.html
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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato
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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato
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You know at the front of the student planner where we post 1 million rules that mainly refer to what students must and must not do? Yeah those ones.
Well how about we did a flip-a-roo and added some student created guidelines around what we adults and school should do? I started to make a list of things that I thought student's would ask for and then thought that's dumb, I should just ask my students!
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Play ball! Baseball season is almost here, the great rite of spring! The cheering of the crowd, the smack of the ball landing in the catcher’s glove at 98 mph, the fragrant aroma of Fenway Franks or Dodger Dogs, the thrill as we watch our favorite player crush a ball and send it soaring over the Green Monster – those of us who love baseball can hardly wait for the excitement!
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