http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org A literary hypertext archive for students of literature. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:49:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our school is collecting socks for neighborhood children, practicing deeds that make us "worthy" of gifts we would like to receive. Students will pay holiday visits, perform skits and read to the people visited.  We are studying the problem of human rights in our texts and the current Darfur genocide. Tenth-graders are peer-reviewing ... http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org/2007/12/10/schedule-of-assignments-10-21-december-2007/ Students are working on reading and writing projects this week.  Tenth-graders are completing research on Jim Crow, the death penalty and racism; they are also reading a text African-American or Hispanic-latino Studies text . Ninth-graders are reading and writing memoirs.  Eighth-graders are writing about the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe:  ... http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org/2007/12/03/schedule-of-assignments-3-7-december-2007/ Pod cast of "Do not go gentle into that good night" Dylan Thomas's famous lines about refusing to accept one's death.... http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org/2007/08/21/spoken-word-by-dylan-thomas/ do not go gentle into that good night old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org/2007/08/21/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night/ Welcome to Dutchess Educational Blogosphere. This is my first post. This is where I can contribute my two cents to the fifteen cents of wisdom available in one's lifetime.  Now where did that come from?  My grandmother told me that if the duck had not quacked, the hunter would not have ... http://ilovelit.mariner.dcboces.org/2007/08/21/hello-world/