Thursday, May 10, 2007

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

WorldLit Dialogues Project/Rubric & Ideas

Send the links to this site under comments. Don't forget to highlight the links using the tool bar above for links:

Rubric for Project Dialogue Website and Presentation:

10 Presentation (clarity, volume,preparation)
20 Appearance (images, colors, choice of templates, background, etc).
40 Quality of Content (papers,general topics to enhance site, relevance)
10 Organization and ease of links
10 Creativity
10 Extended learning

Suggestions for site building:

1.Partner page: Introduce yourself and partner by first name, no last names.
General interests
Dialogues: IM, email messages
Pictures
2. Literature and Paper
3. Country: music, interesting tid bits, perhaps food or whatever might relate to your literature. Cultural Revolution, India’s Independence movement and Gandhi, a link to the Bhagavad gita. Or a link to the author of your literature.

4. Music;You might want to feature music as a separate part of the project and perhaps show how it might relate or express the emotions of the literature or country and how it is changing.

5. History: You might want links to any historical info that might relate to your partner’s country or literature.

6. Reflection: Candid comments of what you might have learned about the country, religion, people in general through the contract with your partner.


Order of Presentations:(Everyone must be ready on the 1st day).

1.Lauren
2.Caroline
3.Sara Beth
4.Drew
5.Pauline
6.River
7.Sara Budar
8.Jenna
9.Jessica
10.Traci
11.Chad
12.Zach
13. Kristin
14. Emily
15.Claire
16.Michele
17. Katie

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Bhagavad gita Quotes

"When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." Albert Einstein

“ In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial ”. (Henry Thoreau)

“ I owed a magnificent day to The Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; as if it were an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but (the) large serene consistent voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us ”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)


"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to the Bhagavad Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it everyday." Mahatma Gandi

The exact quote from the Bhagavad-Gita is:

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one ...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Class URL's

Use these URl's to edit your partners "I Believe" Paper:

hypebeast said...
http://dkim08.blogspot.com




Zooey said...
http://zcutts07blog.blogspot.com/
http://ibelievepaper-worldlit.blogspot.com/

February 27, 2007 2:08 PM


mkawate07 said...
http://mkawate07.blogspot.com/




ctaniguchi said...
http://ctaniguchi.blogspot.com/




sbudar said...
http://sbudarblog.blogspot.com/



EmilyG said...
http://egelber08.blogspot.com/




kdung07 said...
http://summerisfun2007.blogspot.com




Claire said...
http://kakimochigirl.blogspot.com/


River said...
http://riversthoughts.blogspot.com/

Jenna said...
http://warriorsarethebest.blogspot.com/



Lauren Hu's URL is....

http://luckyrubberyduck.blogspot.com/



pauline said...
http://luckygummybears.blogspot.com




kswiss said...
Katie Sisler
http://mrcleanhashisearpierced.blogspot.com/


j_lunt said...
http://worlbyjess.blogspot.com/




macnutmoose said...
Lauren had to make a new blog. She used another email address.

http://macnutmoose.blogspot.com




taoki07 said...
http://traciaoki.blogspot.com/




caroline said...
This is my new url for leaving the comments:

http://ancientvoicespaper.blogspot.com/


Sara Beth said...
This is my url for the ancient voices paper:
http://ancientvoicesblog.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

PBS series: America at Crossroads/Middle East

In case you may have missed this, PBS is airing locally this week at
9:00 PM:

America at a Crossroads is a major public television event premiering
on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the
post-9/11 world — including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the
struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives
on America’s role overseas.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/index.html

Terrina Wong