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WorldLit Dialogues Project/Rubric & Ideas

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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

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.

Bhagavad gita in pictures

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/

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

Questions for Krishna link:

http://krishnabhutan.blogspot.com/

Visit with Asmeh Bashir

Post questions to Asmeh at this link:

http://myforbiddenface.blogspot.com/

New births. . . . . . . new hope!

View this site to see what new ideas are happening for women pre natal care and for gynocological assistance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_iran

Class Questions/ My Forbidden Face

http://myforbiddenface.blogspot.com/

My Forbidden Face

What is the situation now in Afganistan? Are the women liberated? Listen to Malali Joya the bravest woman in Afganistan.

In My Forbidden Face, Latifa ends with the thoughts, "I pray God that whoever will lead our country may be, in his heart, as much Pashtun, as Tajik, as much Uzbek as Hazara…that our culture may be reborn from the ruins of our pillaged museums." Do you think that Latifa and Malali are similar in their views of what is going on?

Her last thoughts, "I'll do more than just pray. Because when the last talib has put away his black turban and I can be a free woman in a free Afghanistan, I will take up my life there once more and do my duty as a citizen, as a woman, and, I hope, as a mother."

Latifa and her family live in Paris. . . . .what do you think are her present thoughts on Afganistan? What happened to her family? Are they now back in Afganistan? If not will they every return?
*Note I've embedded the video by choosing "Customize". You can move around the elements on the page. Select Add page element on the bottom and move up to the top under the title of the page and release.

Blogger's Rules

Hi Class,

We have been alerted through the English department to take a few precautions in our blog building:

1. Your full name should not be evident.

Some of you use your first name to identify your blog, "Jane's Page" and then your email address contains "jsmith@". So that you can figure out Jane Smith from your blog information. Change the name of your title page to something else "Writer's Corner", don't reveal your full name.

2. Do not put your picture up on the page. I said to introduce yourselves, but the English department does not want any pictures unless they are class pictures or images that are referenced.

3. If you post to your blog, music or videos. . make sure that they are free sites that offer the embedded html. So, music by Creedance is copywrited and therefore off limits. I got "Silent Night" by Boyz 11 Men off a free site and the Line Rider is uploaded from a free site on You Tube.

4. Images should have the URL or who gave access to the image. . . . Nasa. .earth. Soon, there will be a letter that you must take home to your parents to sign that lets gives you permission to blog and helps them understand what we are using it for as an extension to the classroom.

*Make sure that the content on your blog contains no objectionable content.

Posting images

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