Twisted Fairytale

I really haven't liked the twisted fairytale assignment. I think it should have stopped at a bell write. I know some people went off with it and had a really good time, but in my opinion it wasn't what I would have liked to be our first major writing assignment of the year. It doesn't really tie in to anything we've been doing in class and for an assignment involving creative writing I think there could have been some funner things we could have done. Oh well, what's done is done. (I'm mostly writing this because I need more posts.)

Reading the Quran

I was interested as I read the Quran to compare it to scripture I typically read. I was amazed when I realized there aren't that many differences. I would like to read more of the Quran and read straight through instead of skipping to certain verses. I think its cool that we get to read it and as for the debate of whether we should study it in class... I think we absolutely should, 25% of the world is Muslim and the Quran is their holy book. I think the Quran has played such a large role in the worlds history we should absolutely read it.

Guest Speaker

I loved hearing from Maysa the guest speaker. I learned a lot and I thought it was way cool that we were able to have a Muslim come speak to us. I feel it shattered a lot of the stereotypes I've heard and was great for us to beable to hear from her. I learned more about Islam in that 1 hour than I think I could have learned in a couple weeks out of the text book. I'm looking forward to studying more on Islam.

Socratic reflection

Socratic Seminar has been a productive class so far. I learned a lot from Beowulf and enjoyed the story, as well as the history that accompanies it. I like the Socratic format of the class from a history point of view, but a regular English class. Overall, I've enjoyed the class. Tell me what you guys think.

How was the Fire?

I unfortunately was not able to make it to the bonfire this weekend. If someone wants to leave a comment and tell me all about, that would be great.

How was the Fire?

HOMOPHONES

So today in Socratic our Bell write involved homophones, it was one of my favorite bell writes thus far this year. As I'm sure everybody knows homophones are two words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. I think it would be cool to have people come up with as many homophones as they can and leave them in a comment.
Good Luck