Final 10 strands
Henry David Thoreau
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transcendentalism
Objectivism
Walden
Epistle
St. Thomas Aquinas
Mahatama Ghandi
Satyagraha
Alfred Nobel
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JM AP English Government
A resource for John Marshall's Advanced Placement English and Government class. Woo-hoo!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transcendentalism
Objectivism
Walden
Epistle
St. Thomas Aquinas
Mahatama Ghandi
Satyagraha
Alfred Nobel
About Me
- Name: erdecker
- Location: Lanesboro, Minnesota, United States
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16 Comments:
Were there any strands on Nov. 12 through December 7, because I don't seem to have that calendar?
does anyone have a list with all of the strands and put them up on the blog?
hey do we need to know the strands before the strands test we took?
i know decker talked said something about it... but i sit in acoustic dead zone
It's all of the strands cumulative, so yes all of the ones from before.
I found 4 calendars worth of strands, not sure if it is the whole list but I will post them here probably tonight or early in the morning.
Sladjana, I don't have that calendar either, I think that was the month where we had no calendars...
does anyone want to post all of them? cuz that would be helpful
Oh my goodness, look at the amazing stuff I found in the comic section!
Even Henry David Thoreau connect the dots!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/sashrash/thoreau2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/sashrash/thoreau.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/sashrash/thoreauconnectdots.jpg
I'm thinking extra credit for whoever completes the connect the dots..
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=Blazers-080121
MLK reference to his papers and the connections to today.
Here's all I have; PLEASE let me know if there are more:
The Republic
Socratic Method
Thucydides
Herodotus
Machiavellian
Tabula Rasa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
Bush Doctrine
Alexander the Great
The World is Flat
Rhetoric
Antithesis
John Hancock
Lexis
Dialectic
Kairos
Alfred the Great
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
"Widsith"
Caedmon
Cynewulf
Battle of Hastings
"The Dream of Rood"
Weird or wyrd
Sutton Hoo (place)
Brave New World Revisited
All the King's Men
All the President's Men
"Of the Cannibals" (Montaigne)
King James I
masque
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Utopia
Anthem
Ben Jonson
Elizabethan
Jacobean
Current US Poet Laureate
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
Miller Williams
Billy Collins
Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt
Reader Response Criticism
New Criticism
Saint Nicholas
Henry David Thoreau
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Transcendentalism
Objectivism
Walden
Epistle
St. Thomas Aquinas
Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha
Alfred Nobel
Andrew H is AMAZING at life
The Republic
The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία / Politeía) is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written approximately 360 BC. It is an influential work of philosophy and political theory, and perhaps Plato's best known work.
Socratic Method
Socratic Method (or Method of Elenchus or Socratic Debate) is a dialectic method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts
Thucydides
Thucydides (c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídēs) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Herodotus
was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BCE (ca. 484 BCE–ca. 425 BCE) and is regarded as the "Father of History". He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories
Machiavellian
is the term that some social and personality psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain.
Tabula Rasa
(Latin: scraped tablet or clean slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content, in a word, "blank",
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
was a philosopher and composer of the Enlightenment whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution,
Voltaire
was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties,
Bush Doctrine
The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves
Alexander the Great
He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle.
The World is Flat
is a national bestseller book by Thomas L. Friedman, analyzing the progress of globalization with an emphasis on the early 21st century.
Rhetoric
is generally understood to be the art (Latin) or technique (Greek) of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language.
Antithesis
) is a counter-propositions and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. In setting the opposite, an individual brings out of a contrast in the meaning (eg., the definition, interpretation, or semantics) by an obvious contrast in the expression.
Lexis
is the total bank of words and phrases of a particular language, the artifact of which is known as a lexicon.
Kairos
"right or opportune moment" "a time in between", a moment of undetermined period of time in which "something" special happens
Alfred the Great
Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons."
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
is a collection of annals in Old English narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons
"Widsith"
is an Old English poem of 144 lines that appears to date from the 9th century, drawing on earlier oral traditions of Anglo-Saxon tale singing.
Caedmon
is the earliest English poet whose name is known.
Cynewulf
) is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by name today, and one of four whose work survives today
Battle of Hasting
was the decisive, but costly Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England
"The Dream of Rood"
one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Anglo-Saxon literature and an intriguing example of the genre of dream poetry.
Weird or wyrd
a concept in Anglo-Saxon and Nordic culture roughly corresponding to Fate
Sutton Hoo (place)
is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of the 6th and early 7th centuries, one of which contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of artifacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance.
Brave New World Revisited
was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved towards or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s
All the King's Men All
portrays the dramatic political ascent and decline of Willie Stark (a.k.a. "the Boss"), a populist governor in the American South during the 1930s.
All the President's Men
is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate first break-in and ensuing Watergate scandal
"Of the Cannibals" (Montaigne)
the essay "Of Cannibals" was a direct source for The Tempest.
King James I
was nominal King of Scots from April 4, 1406, and reigning King of Scots from May 1424 until February 21, 1437.
masque
was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Europe
1984
is an English dystopian novel by George Orwell, written in 1948 and published in 1949. It is the story of the life of the intellectual Winston Smith, his job in the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation by the totalitarian government of Oceania, the country in which he lives.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange features disturbing, violent imagery to facilitate social commentary on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other topics in a futuristic dystopian society.
Utopia
"good place"—the double meaning was probably intended) is a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, written about by Sir Thomas More
Anthem
Ayn rand’s novel, explored utopian concepts
Ben Jonson
an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor.
Elizabethan
s the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history
Jacobean
refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James I (1603 – 1625). The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period.
Current US Poet Laureate: Charles Simic
Robert Frost
American poet. His work frequently used themes from rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.
Maya Angelou
is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Miller Williams
is an American contemporary poet
Billy Collins
an American poet. He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.
Henrik Ibsen
was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt can be considered as a bittersweet play about a Norwegian anti-hero.
Reader Response Criticism a group of approaches to understanding literature that emphasizes the reader's role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work.
New Criticism
as the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the mid twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Its adherents were emphatic in their advocacy of close reading and attention to texts themselves, and their rejection of criticism based on extra-textual sources, especially biography.
Transcendentalism
was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century.
Objectivism
addresses what reality is and how we know about it.
Epistle
s a writing directed or sent to a person or group of persons, usually a letter and a very formal, often didactic and elegant one.
St. Thomas Aquinas
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology.
Satyagraha
is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as "Mahatma" Gandhi).
Alfred Nobel
as a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite
best friend,
i love you.
My new best friend, i hope you're male, cause we're getting married
Thanks, mark! and my new best friend, also :)
Two are missing from that list:
Aldous Huxley: an English writer regarded as a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank. Author of BNW.
St. Nicholas: a Christian saint, many miracles are attributed to him, he is also referred to as the wonderworker. St Nick has a reputation of secret gift giving, and is associated with Santa Clause. He leaves candy in your shoes!!!!
Tricia, i figured those were self-explanatory.
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