Ms. Keenan's 12th Grade English: Things That Make Me Happy

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Email Your Future Self!

Here's a link to a site where you can compose a private email to be sent to your "future self!" Think about writing another "letter" to yourself and make some goals, predictions, and hopes for the future. You'll forget you even did it until the email appears a year later (or however long you choose).

REMEMBER: setting goals is the first step to ACCOMPLISHING goals!

Email Your Future Self!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

WHAT WILL YOUR VERSE BE?

LOOK!
APPLE IS PLAYING US AGAINST OUR EMOTIONS AND THE ABILITY TO BE MOVED BY FILM AND WALT WHITMAN REFERENCES AND THE VOICE-OVER OF ROBIN WILLIAMS IN "DEAD POET'S SOCIETY!"

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?