For this week's blog post, I'm curious what your "perfect" world would look like. Tell me in 100 words or more how you would change the world, its government, citizens, education, laws, and/or communities to make them function more efficiently and improve our society as a whole. Be sure to consider how your decisions could have a negative impact on the society too. Feel free to point out both the positive and negative aspects of the decisions you would make. May the odds be ever in your favor...
One of the most popular types of science fiction novels is dystopian literature. These books are set in the future in a society that is supposed to be more "perfect" than our world today, but ultimately has flaws.
For this week's blog post, I'm curious what your "perfect" world would look like. Tell me in 100 words or more how you would change the world, its government, citizens, education, laws, and/or communities to make them function more efficiently and improve our society as a whole. Be sure to consider how your decisions could have a negative impact on the society too. Feel free to point out both the positive and negative aspects of the decisions you would make. May the odds be ever in your favor...
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The recent weather might make you excited for winter or sad that Fall is coming to an end. Regardless of your stance on the snowy days ahead, I thought that the change in weather would provide a great muse for our blog posts this week. In this blog post, I challenge you to write a poem (yes, a poem!) about snow. It could be in any poetic form, but make sure that it makes sense overall. Ready for a challenge with poetry? Try to include a few examples of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, etc) that you might remember from 6th grade too! No, a poem does NOT need to rhyme; we actually prefer ones that do not! Check out Billy Collins' poem below if you want to see an example of a poem that wows! Snow Day BY BILLY COLLINS Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness, and beyond these windows the government buildings smothered, schools and libraries buried, the post office lost under the noiseless drift, the paths of trains softly blocked, the world fallen under this falling. In a while, I will put on some boots and step out like someone walking in water, and the dog will porpoise through the drifts, and I will shake a laden branch sending a cold shower down on us both. But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house, a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow. I will make a pot of tea and listen to the plastic radio on the counter, as glad as anyone to hear the news that the Kiddie Corner School is closed, the Ding-Dong School, closed. the All Aboard Children’s School, closed, the Hi-Ho Nursery School, closed, along with—some will be delighted to hear-- the Toadstool School, the Little School, Little Sparrows Nursery School, Little Stars Pre-School, Peas-and-Carrots Day School the Tom Thumb Child Center, all closed, and—clap your hands—the Peanuts Play School. So this is where the children hide all day, These are the nests where they letter and draw, where they put on their bright miniature jackets, all darting and climbing and sliding, all but the few girls whispering by the fence. And now I am listening hard in the grandiose silence of the snow, trying to hear what those three girls are plotting, what riot is afoot, which small queen is about to be brought down. Billy Collins, “Snow Day” from Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Billy Collins. Reprinted with the permission of Sll/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House Inc., 2001) For this week’s post, you’ll need to reflect on Friday’s presentation by Gabriel Bol Deng. What was most memorable to you about his presentation? Which part of his story sticks with you the most and why? What are you taking away from his time with us?
We hope you walked away from Friday’s assembly with many new insights, noticing some patterns in the stories we’ve studied together (again and again), and even more questions that you could further explore on your own. Include an example of these three elements in your response. |
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