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Mary Forney & Bryan Newschwander
Mary Forney and Bryan Newschwander both teach in the English Department. Mary has taught here for 28 years while Bryan is beginning his second year.
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Thoughts from Mary Forney . . .
Mary Forney
I love how students reveal themselves and also have revelations about themselves in my writing classes in the fall semester. Since seniors must make major decisions soon, they?re often quite reflective of how they got to their current place and what their dreams for their future hold. Seeing that reflection emerge through poetry, projects, and personal essays allows me to see them from a different dimension. I love when a ?non-reader? comes to class and announces, ?I couldn?t stop reading at the place we were supposed to last night. This book is awesome!? A life-long learner is born!
Units covered:
Sophomore Speech & Communication: listening, parliamentary procedure, persuasive speaking, informative speaking, oral interpretation, speaking for entertainment
English III ? Research: writing an MLA analytical research paper, Future Careers (School, Work, Service, Learning) study, a Holocaust study which includes reading Elie Wiesel?s Night and writing a thematic explication.
English IV ? Adv. Writing: personal and analytical writing, poetry writing.
English IV ? Adv. English: literature of Nigeria, South Africa, Darfur; Independent Spirit Unit; memoir reading; futuristic literature.
English IV ? Rhetoric: Advertising & Counterculture; media & marketing; film study (writing reviews); literature projects (the 1960?s & Vietnam; the 1950?s).
English IV ? British Literature: a survey course starting pre-Anglo-Saxon to contemporary British lit.
Yearbook: organization, layout, design, photography, reporting, interviewing to create the Reverie
Mary?s goals for her students:.
How can parents help their students succeed in your classes?
Mary?s greatest challenges . . .
I?m often amazed when I hear students say, ?I hate English. Why do we have to take this class?? I can?t think of one vocation or avocation in which speaking, writing, listening, or analyzing isn?t used to some extent. The language arts are vital in this era of high technology, anonymous global communication and spirited speech. Reading and listening to others? viewpoints and ideas makes each of us better human beings, enabling us to live together on this small planet. I fear future generations will only see the small picture of their OWN lives. Keeping what we do in English classes relevant is the current challenge I face.
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Thoughts from Bryan Newschwander who titles his ideas: English and the Art of Motor Vehicle Maintenance
Bryan Newschwander
One challenge of English language arts is getting up to speed with grammar. Grammar takes us under the surface of language, giving us terms and tools for identifying and fixing problems that arise in using language?it?s a bit like car maintenance or repair. Even if you are not a mechanic, it?s really helpful to know the names and functions of faulty parts ?under the hood? in order to keep the engine running smoothly or to find and fix that broken something-or-other. Grammar won?t necessarily make students better drivers, but it will help them understand what they can do to keep the car of communication moving efficiently to its destination, with fewer breakdowns.
English Fundamentals builds basic English skills with an exploration of grammar and vocabulary, reading and writing about short stories, poems, novels, informational text, and nonfiction, with plenty of speaking and listening opportunities along the way. Our goal is to provide students with a solid background for later success in both English and other content areas. Parents help by encouraging students to work diligently, to talk openly about what they are learning, and to read widely.
Composition revisits the power of grammar to drive effective communication, but focuses on developing writing skills for varied audiences through real-world narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive pieces. We?ll appreciate the artistry of communication while learning the nuts and bolts of meaningful and masterful written composition. Along the way, we?ll keep reading in order to learn from student and professional writers.
In Advanced Placement English, a college-level senior course, students apply their growing mastery of English language to the analysis and appreciation of some of the great ideas that have shaped our world and several of the best imaginative and insightful writings of all time. The practice of close reading skills and the developing ability to synthesize and express thoughts concisely and convincingly will fuel student success in college and beyond.
At every level, English language learning begins with a drive to learn, a desire to excel, and the diligence to continue even through difficulty. Parents provide an essential roadmap of encouragement and caring to motivate and accelerate students on their journey through life, wherever it may take them.
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After repeated denials, Paul Ryan has admitted he requested stimulus cash even after sharply criticizing the program.
As recently as Wednesday in Ohio, Mitt Romney's running mate told ABC's Cincinnati affiliate, WCPO, he did not.
"I never asked for stimulus," Ryan said. "I don't recall? so I really can't comment on it. I opposed the stimulus because it doesn't work, it didn't work."
Two years ago, during an interview on WBZ's NewsRadio he was asked by a caller if he "accepted any money" into his district. Ryan said he did not.
"I'm not one [of those] people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money," the congressman answered.
But as we've now learned, Ryan did write letters. He did request stimulus funds.
"The Olympics may be over but Paul Ryan could have gotten a gold medal in hypocrisy," a senior administration official told ABC's Jake Tapper. "As someone who spends all day every day railing against government spending, but then secretly seeks millions in funds for pet projects, he is as Washington as it gets."
In 2009, Ryan wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis asking for stimulus money to cover costs on two energy conservation projects in his home state of Wisconsin. In the letter, Ryan said the funds would help create jobs and reduce "energy consumption" in the state. At least one of the companies received the requested cash.
The letters were first obtained by The Wall Street Journal through the Freedom of Information Act back in early 2010. The Boston Globe turned them up for the first time during this campaign season Wednesday. At that point, a Ryan aide referred ABC News back to what a Ryan spokesman said when the letters first went public.
"If Congressman Ryan is asked to help a Wisconsin entity applying for existing Federal grant funds, he does not believe flawed policy should get in the way of doing his job and providing a legitimate constituent service to his employers," the spokesman told the Milwaukee (Wisc.) Journal Sentinel.
Thursday, Ryan responded to the questions himself.
"After having these letters called to my attention I checked into them, and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled," Ryan said in a statement. "This is why I didn't recall the letters earlier. But they should have been handled differently, and I take responsibility for that.
"Regardless, it's clear that the Obama stimulus did nothing to stimulate the economy, and now the President is asking to do it all over again."
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The latest attempt to go past Mach 5 with the X51A has finished badly again, as a broken fin caused the missile to lose control before its air-breathing "scramjet'" motor could even kick in. It happened just after the booster rocket phase, which accelerates the craft to at least Mach 4, a high enough velocity for the hypersonic scramjet to work. The craft ended up in the Pacific shortly afterwards instead, and this latest affair may end up dunking the entire $300 million program. The Air Force initiative is already short on funding, and the previous two tries were equally dismal failures -- meaning a fourth missile, already built, may end up a museum piece.
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Over the years, readers and students have asked me about the work I have done on school reform and technology. I want to answer? these Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) here. But first some background.
I began doing research and writing on teacher and student uses of technology in the early 1980s when the first personal computers appeared in classrooms. That writing turned into Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920. I then began working on a larger study of teacher and student uses of new technologies in preschool and kindergarten, high schools, and universities. That became Oversold and Underused: Computers in Classrooms (2001). In 2009, one chapter of Hugging the Middle: How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability dealt with teacher and student uses of technologies across four school districts.
Those writings on teaching and technology put me squarely in the bin labeled Skeptic. And comments were testy. Promoters of new technologies, be they vendors, practitioners or policymakers, would curtly dismiss concerns I and others raised by calling skeptics ?Luddites.?
No more. Public scorn for anyone who would probe the prevailing beliefs in the magical efficacy of computers in schools has become unfashionable.? I have found educators and non-educators who deeply believed in classroom computers as engines of learning, willing to listen to critics when concerns were raised about the many goals of schooling in a democracy, implementing new technologies, and insufficient research to support expansion. I find these changes encouraging but hardly a game-changer.
Why? Because in my experience, there are fewer skeptics than true believers in new technologies. Perhaps because I am in the minority, the FAQs that I have been asked are more of a personal character seeking elaboration of why I have explored technology and school reform and what technologies I use.
1. Why did you begin writing about technology in classroom lessons? In the late-1970s, I began doing research and writing about the history of classroom instruction. In 1984, I published How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms, 1890-1980. In that book, I tracked the repeated (and failed) efforts of progressive reformers over a century to change classroom practice?in urban, suburban, and rural classrooms from teacher-centered to student-centered lessons. In doing the archival research, seeing photos of teachers teaching, and reading accounts of how teachers taught different lessons, I saw the classroom use of different technologies from blackboards, stereopticons, and textbooks to overhead projectors, films, radio, and instructional television. The idea that reforming teaching was linked to the introduction of new technologies intrigued me. Was introduction of new technologies another way that reformers had in moving teaching away from traditional lessons? I found out that the answer was yes.
2. Do you personally use any electronic technologies?
At home I have a desktop and laptop computer, an iPad, and an iPhone. The desktop I use at home; the laptop and iPad when I travel, and the iPhone daily. I use all of them for personal, business, and professional work such as this blog. Please do not ask me how many times I check my email.
3. When you taught high school history and social studies and graduate classes at Stanford, did you use technologies in your instruction?
Yes, I did in the past and do now. I used regularly (daily and weekly) both old and new technologies between the 1950s and 1980s in high school teaching. Films (16mm), film strips, overhead projectors, and videocassettes. Currently, I use my laptop and LCD in seminars for examples of points to make, quick polls of students, video clips, etc. I do not, however, do PowerPoint presentations.
4. If you are (and have been) a regular user of technologies, why are you skeptical of their use in classrooms?
Like past electronic technologies, vendors and enthusiasts have hyped them to solve problems from low academic performance to alienation among students to traditional teaching practices. Hype is over-promising; over-promising inexorably leads to disappointment; disappointment builds cynicism. I am allergic to hype.
Second, new technologies are experiments?alpha and beta versions?used to find out whether they are workable and even useful on students who are compelled to be in school and know little about consequences. Combine hype and experimentation and that is a potentially toxic combination. Thus, hard questions must be asked of those policymakers who buy and deploy electronic devices for classroom instruction.
Third, the enormous amount of money spent on new technologies without much evidence of their efficacy on teaching and learning means that other options such as investing in more teachers and their professional development are lost. That is inefficient and ineffective policymaking.
Given these three reasons, I remain skeptical of new technologies applied to teaching and learning in public schools.
Source: http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/faqs-for-a-skeptic-on-technology/
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In the early days of movies, Mary Pickford was the original "America's Sweetheart."
Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation are partnering on a multi-year initiative to bring fresh attention to the Oscar-winning actress and her girlish charm in such films as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and "Pollyanna," Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said Tuesday.
The partnership will include an annual silent film screening, silent film preservation initiatives and the digitization of parts of the Academy's collection of her films.
To kick off this partnership, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy and the Foundation will host a special "Inside the Vaults" event on Tuesday, September 11, at the Pickford Center in Hollywood. The evening will include behind-the-scenes tours of the vaults, a screening of a rare Mary Pickford short "The New York Hat" (1912), the Los Angeles premiere of the Academy Film Archive's newly restored print of "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), starring Douglas Fairbanks, and a display of select items from the Academy's Mary Pickford collection. Tours begin at 6 p.m. and the screening program begins at 8 p.m.
"We are thrilled that together with the Mary Pickford Foundation, we will bring the groundbreaking work of Mary Pickford and the pioneers of the silent film era to the attention of a new generation," said Hudson.
As Hudson noted, Pickford was a founding member of the Academy. Pickford won an Oscar for best actress for "Coquette" (1929) and received a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1976. Together with Fairbanks, her husband during the height of the Silent Film era, she served as the head of Hollywood's royalty, with their Beverly Hills mansion, Pickfair, becoming a movie industry gathering spot for top talent like Charlie Chaplin and Noel Coward.
The Mary Pickford Foundation will work in partnership with the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library to strengthen its existing collection of Pickford papers, photographs and memorabilia with newly found items from the silent film star's personal collection. In addition, the library will digitize a selection of historically significant items in the collection.
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President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign stop at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Dubuque, Iowa. The president is on a three-day campaign bus tour through the state. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign stop at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Dubuque, Iowa. The president is on a three-day campaign bus tour through the state. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to traveling press secretary Rick Gorka on the campaign charter flight before departure from Port Columbus International airport, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Columbus , Ohio. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet supporters during a campaign stop at the Alliant Energy Amphitheater, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Dubuque, Iowa. The president is on a three-day campaign bus tour through the state. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Secret Service agents stand guard as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets into his vehicle upon his arrival in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Vice President Joe Biden visits the April 16th memorial on the campus of Virginia Tech following a campaign stop Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/ Sam Dean, The Roanoke Times)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Mitt Romney is portraying the outwardly calm President Barack Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust as the Republicans seek to undermine one of the Democrat's greatest campaign strengths ? his personal likability.
The president's re-election effort, Romney said Wednesday, "is all about division and attack and hatred." Obama, Romney added later while campaigning in Charlotte, is an angry man who "will do or say anything to get elected."
Whether by calculation or not, Obama highlighted his most genial side as he campaigned in Iowa, joking with voters about the pleasures of state fair junk food, and joshing with his wife, who made a rare campaign appearance with him.
"It all boils down to who you are and what you stand for," Michelle Obama told Iowans in Dubuque, on the final leg of the president's three-day bus tour of that toss-up state. "We all know who my husband is, don't we? And we all know what he stands for."
With polls showing Obama with a slight lead, Romney is focused on the "likability gap" that is evident in surveys that consistently show Obama ranking higher on general favorability questions than on handling the economy, which until now has been the Republican's chief focus. Romney's approach also comes as he and his running mate, congressional budget writer Paul Ryan, face increasing questions on a touchy economic issue for many Americans" their stance on Medicare.
While some GOP strategists question whether Romney's tactic will work, they agree that he is vulnerable among voters who find Obama more personally appealing. Romney and his allies appear bent on persuading voters that Obama is not what he seems.
Appearing on CBS Wednesday, Romney said the Obama campaign is "designed to bring a sense of enmity and jealousy and anger." The comments echoed the candidate's call on Tuesday for Obama to "take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago."
It's unclear whether Romney can convince voters that Obama is a politician of volcanic anger and ambition. Sometimes called "no-drama Obama," the president has disappointed liberal activists who see him as too dispassionate, meek and willing to compromise on issues such as a government-provided health insurance option.
Some GOP activists say Romney's time would be better spent talking about jobs and the economy, even if Obama has pitted wealthy Americans against the less-wealthy and allowed allies to level harsh charges against Romney.
"He is the most divisive president ever," said Virginia-based GOP consultant Mike McKenna. "But he doesn't seem angry, which is why he retains his personal popularity."
Republicans continued to complain Wednesday about Vice President Joe Biden's remarks earlier in the week in Danville, Va. Commenting in response to Republican criticism that the Obama administration had sought to regulate Wall Street too tightly, Biden told a crowd that included hundreds of black supporters that the GOP wanted to "unchain Wall Street." He added, "They're going to put y'all back in chains."
Republicans said Biden's remarks carried racial overtones and demanded that Obama condemn them.
At the same time, some Democrats saw potential racial allusions in the Romney campaign's bid to paint Obama as hate-filled. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama wrote of trying to avoid looking like an "angry black man" as he came of age in mostly white America.
While Obama himself has not responded directly to the stepped-up critique, his campaign had a quick rejoinder, calling Romney's remarks "unhinged."
Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, said Wednesday that Obama "continues his campaign of rage and divisiveness," an apparent reference to Biden's comments and unrelated hard-hitting ads by a super PAC that supports the president.
Some Democrats found the tenor of such remarks unconvincing.
"They have a habit of overreacting to events," said Democratic consultant Jim Manley. The Romney team, he said, is using a sledgehammer "when a light touch would do" in trying "to take the president's favorability ratings down a notch or two."
As often happens in campaigns, the Republican message is multi-pronged, and possibly confusing to some voters. While Romney was using hot words like "attack and hatred" Wednesday, a super PAC that supports him ? Americans for Prosperity ? was airing a soft-touch TV ad in states including Ohio that lowered the temperature.
It shows former Obama supporters quietly expressing sadness and disappointment in the president's performance. One woman calls Obama "a great person," but says he has not earned re-election.
Still, the harsh tenor of much of the campaign has not gone unnoticed. An NBC-Wall Street Journal poll last month found that negative views of both candidates were on the rise and that 22 percent believed Obama was running a more negative campaign, 12 percent said Romney was being more negative and 34 percent chose both.
In Dubuque Wednesday, the Obamas addressed more than 3,000 people outside the red-brick Alliant Energy Amphitheater along the Mississippi River. The first lady vouched for her husband, calling him the "son of a mother who struggled" and the grandson of a woman who hit the glass ceiling at her job at a bank, watching as men she trained were promoted ahead of her.
Two rallies in eastern Iowa brought the popular first lady to her husband's side, creating a polite back-and-forth between the couple on stage. The health-conscious Mrs. Obama teased her husband about his recent trip to the Iowa State Fair, asking him if he had a "fried Twinkie," prompting the president to tell her that he had a "pork chop and a beer."
On an economic issue, Obama offered his most direct defense of his handling of Medicare, offering a point-by-point version of how the two tickets would handle the health care program for the elderly.
"I have strengthened Medicare," Obama said, saying his administration proposed "reforms that will not touch your Medicare benefits, not by a dime." He said Romney and Ryan wanted to "turn Medicare into a voucher program" while his approach had extended the life of Medicare by a decade. "Their plan ends Medicare as we know it," Obama said.
In Charlotte, Romney repeated his claim that Obama would reduce Medicare benefits by $716 billion over 10 years. He did not mention that his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, has proposed the same savings, which are supposed to be realized through lower medical payments and great efficiencies in the program.
Some Romney surrogates expressed unease with the campaign's increasingly bitter tone. "This back-and-forth doesn't do either side or the country as well as it could," former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said on CNN.
But Pawlenty added a dig at Obama, saying, "We have a president who won't even disclaim an ad that accuses Mitt Romney of killing a gentleman's wife." He was referring to a pro-Democratic super PAC's ad in which a widower says he and his wife lost their health insurance when his employer was taken over by a company Romney helped direct.
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Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Dubuque, Iowa, and Julie Pace and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.
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