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The Great Books Foundation Blog: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
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The Great Books Foundation Blog. Thursday, June 13, 2013. Teaching More Nonfiction and Informational Texts. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) make a lot of new demands on. 8221; and “Why are the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies able to think of themselves as ‘one people’? 8221; (from The Will of the People: Readings in American Democracy. For example, If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution. Skills—reading comprehension, writing, and critical thinking—remain a primary foc...A Great B...
The Great Books Foundation Blog: 10 Keys to Making Professional Learning Meaningful
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The Great Books Foundation Blog. Thursday, March 20, 2014. 10 Keys to Making Professional Learning Meaningful. Chances are, as you look at your calendar of scheduled professional learning days, you aren’t overcome with excitement. Traditionally, teacher professional learning has ranged from the good (the workshop that’s actually hands-on), to the bad (the never-ending PowerPoint presentation), to the ugly (remember that one presenter . . . ). Keys to Strong Professional Learning. 2 Identify Key Takeaways.
The Great Books Foundation Blog: 04/01/2014 - 05/01/2014
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The Great Books Foundation Blog. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Selecting and Using Complex Texts in Great Books K12 Programs. The Great Books Foundation’s K–12 programs are based on the belief that, with well-researched, inquiry-based support activities, all students can comprehend, discuss, and interpret complex texts. To select the literature for its anthologies, the Foundation uses criteria that not only mirror the Common Core criteria for determining complexity, but go beyond them. To characteristics of a...
The Great Books Foundation Blog: 01/01/2014 - 02/01/2014
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The Great Books Foundation Blog. Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Celebrating Tove Jansson and Moomins. Readers of her books will recognize Moominvalley life in her description of her youth:. Tove later said that the horrific war years motivated her to turn the frowning, ugly Moomin into a wide-eyed adventure seeker and observer that developed into the Moomin books. Her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood. When asked how she perceived her Moomin reading audience, Jansson explained:. She died in ...
The Great Books Foundation Blog: 04/01/2013 - 05/01/2013
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The Great Books Foundation Blog. Thursday, April 11, 2013. Special Report - Finding Quality Nonfiction - WeAreTeachers. Special Report - Finding Quality Nonfiction - WeAreTeachers. The Great Books Foundation. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Special Report - Finding Quality Nonfiction - WeAr. Subscribe in a reader. For 50 years Great Books programs have helped students achieve what the Common Core State Standards now demand. Why we still need the humanities. Great Books K-12 Facebook Page.
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john locke | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Locke says “the king is a thing”. Which we just recently finished reading, the eponymous protagonist declares that “the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing.” John Locke’s. Second Essay Concerning Civil Government. Our most recent read in the Great Books of the Western World reading project. While I’m not sure that Locke had Shakespeare in mind as he wrote, his.
education | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Liberal education and a free society. In a letter, written in 1813, to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson explains the steps taken by the Virginia legislature after the Declaration of Independance to eradicate the vestiges of the old world aristocracy that had taken hold on the American landscape. Notes on the State of Virginia. Notes on the State of Virginia. Indicates a decidedly wider purview for the ward sch...
latin america | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. The Beautiful and the Very Beautiful. Liberal education and a free society. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). Man’s law, God’s law (Antigone). Running from fate (Oedipus Rex). Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation Blog. A Great Books Reading Blog. The Argumentative Old Git. Musings of a Christia...
great books reading project | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Great books reading project. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). It has been a great pleasure to continue to work my way once more through these Greek dramas as part of the Great Books of the Western World reading plan. There is so much here that it is difficult to know where to begin. Aeschylus’s plays, and the. I am reminded here of the arguments of Chesterton in his. Great books reading project.
Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. Locke’s advice on teaching. Plutarch’s lessons in leadership →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
gabriel garcía márquez | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. The Beautiful and the Very Beautiful. Liberal education and a free society. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). Man’s law, God’s law (Antigone). Running from fate (Oedipus Rex). Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation Blog. A Great Books Reading Blog. The Argumentative Old Git. Musings of a Christia...
fiction | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. Book Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison. Is not a bad novel, but it nowhere approaches the greatness of. The Old Man and the Sea. Murder in the Cathedral. I am not only disappointed with the novel itself, however, I am more disappointed that I must be so disappointed. Literature is primarily the study of the universal hu...
alexander the great | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Plutarch’s lessons in leadership. I have to begin this post by apologizing to all who follow my blog for not blogging regularly over the last few months. This is especially true of neglecting the timetable I set for my reading and blogging about the 10-year reading plan for the Great Books of the Western World. I do, however, have a good excuse! Do you see the same theme in this year’s readings? Later, in ...
books | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. Along the way, Steinbeck experiences America through conversations with average Americans of all sorts. His focus throughout the book is largely upon these conversations and the impressions they make upon him as well as the insights they grant him into what makes America and its people unique and what binds them together. December 15, 2015. It was this t...
Introduction to Western Civilization | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Introduction to Western Civilization. Over the next several months, I will be posting a number of essays, lessons, and primary source selections designed to provide an introductory course in Western Civilization. The posts will appear as regular blog posts and links to each will be collected on a page I have created for this purpose. You can visit that page here. Posted in classical education. Introduction...
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A Home, Furniture, and Interior Design Blog by The Great American Home Store. Rachael Ray Home: The Soho Collection. Ask the Sleep Expert #2: Trey’s Back at it Again! Color Series: Decorating with Sharkskin Gray. Ask the Sleep Expert #2: Trey’s Back at it Again! March 16, 2017. The Sleep Expert is back to answer the questions our readers submitted here on our blog and on our social media accounts! If you missed part one.). Getting a great night’s sleep shouldn’t be complicated, right? January 20, 2017.
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Welcome to Our Blog. In-depth security analysis, news, and advice. Network Security and Visibility. 5 Security Predictions for 2017: What Will be Your Greatest Risk? Welcome to the New Year. From all of us at Great Bay Software, we wish you a safe and secure 2017. With recent news filled with stories of hacking by government actors, the prevention of cyberattacks. A ‘Must Read’ - Gartner on IoT Security. 7 Best Practices to Secure Enterprise IoT. What is Enterprise IoT Security? Previously we discussed t...
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Great Big Plants Blog. Unique Gardening Ingredients. Better in Every Way. Great Big Potted Plants. Garden Bloggers We Like. JUNIPER STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT 2014, Part 4. Here are more details on the successful Juniper Street Community Garden in Flagstaff, Arizona started by Jim Mast (Tomato Jim), his daughter and granddaughters. The garden has 12 raised beds built of small diameter pine logs. Each plot is 4 feet x 20 feet. July 24 I was very honored today to receive a Centennial Honoree Award fro...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009. Schwarzenegger is a BIG stuff fan! So, the news of the day is that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fan of oversized stuff, more specifically the giant pocket knife, as seen in a video posted on YouTube today. In the video, he sits at his desk in the state Capitol admiring a 2-foot-long folding knife before addressing viewers and saying he likes one follower's suggestion to autograph a fleet of state-owned vehicles being put up for auction on Craigslist and eBay.
The Great Books Foundation Blog
The Great Books Foundation Blog. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Selecting and Using Complex Texts in Great Books K12 Programs. The Great Books Foundation’s K–12 programs are based on the belief that, with well-researched, inquiry-based support activities, all students can comprehend, discuss, and interpret complex texts. To select the literature for its anthologies, the Foundation uses criteria that not only mirror the Common Core criteria for determining complexity, but go beyond them. To characteristics of a...
Great Books to Read
Great Books to Read. An idiosyncratic selection of books I found interesting or useful, with a bias towards books on crafts, mystery stories, and books my children like. Point Blank By Anthony Horowitz. Point Blank is the sequel to Stormbreaker. The basic plot of point blank is Alex Rider a. 14 year old MI6 agent is sent to investigate an elite reform school in the French Alps for rich kids aged 14. PS Anthony Horowitz also wrote the screenplays for Foyle’s War. He's a very versatile writer! Julie Gabrie...
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From the Writers’ Bullpen. Brew with the Boss. August 4, 2015. Making a living working with greatcontent: an interview with SamUrq. Here at greatcontent, we wouldn’t get anywhere without one key element: our writers. We spoke to one writer to gain an insight on what it’s like to earn a living from greatcontent, and asked for tips to help you write more texts with less stress. (more…). July 29, 2015. The Phantom Update: What Google’s Coolest Sounding Update So Far Means. July 1, 2015. July 1, 2015. It mig...
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14 April, 2015. 10 1 frågor till Michael Draxler. Idag är ingen vanlig dag på greatcontent. Jo, det finns fortfarande en hel del texter som ska skrivas och mail som ska besvaras, men idag får det vänta ett par timmar. Vi rör oss mot det sista rummet på kontoret i slutet på korridoren för att intervjua någon som föredrar att prata före att skriva och som hellre bär keps än slips. Head of sales och Key Account Manager. Business Process Optimization/International Sales/Project Managemant (more…). Har ägnat ...
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Welcome To The Blog! That’s right – Great Creative Moments now has a blog. To inspire, to inform, to excite. This is what Great Creative Moments does best. I also design and entertain. LOL. It is with peril that one imposes limits, like fear, prejudice, and hate. No one ever reaches the sky with that. By Gia Catherine Motti. Mar 12, 2016. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). By Gia Catherine Motti.
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