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		<title>News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers and freshmen, I wanted to post some final notes and thoughts for the fall semester, but because of problems I experienced posting to the site, obviously I was unable to do so. I asked APELCers to watch Digital Nation over the break, which you can watch at FRONTLINE, but since I&#8217;m only able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, we completed our reading of The Odyssey today. It was a long time with our beaks stuck in the textbook; just be grateful we didn&#8217;t attempt the entire epic. 
We saw the hero (?) Odysseus take back what the gods and monsters, the sea, the suitors, and time tried to take from him. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/10/english-9-class-notes-453/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, we spent the first half of class Thursday and Friday revisiting clauses, phrases, and syntactic (and lexical) categories, and playing with others&#8217; and our own words in a mimicking exercise. We completed the second half of our time together in the liberry where you continued to draft you narrative arguments, which, as you well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/10/apelc-class-notes-368/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, we have nearly completed our reading of portions of The Odyssey. Today and yesterday, second and seventh period spent time with Odysseus and Telemachus as they infiltrated the suitors&#8217; ranks, and Laertes&#8217; son demonstrated his ownership of his bow. We&#8217;ll see how Odysseus dispatches the bums and wins his kingdom and home back next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/08/english-9-class-notes-452/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, Tuesday and Wednesday we processed the Vowell text and discussed elements you might mimic to use in your own writing before we headed to the liberry for the penultimate day of in-class drafting of your narrative arguments.
I mentioned two stories in class, both from Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR, that I&#8217;ve linked here as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/08/apelc-class-notes-367/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, we began with conventions errors corrections today and moved to the final portions of our epic poem as Odysseus returns home to Ithaca to reclaim his throne and queen. We&#8217;ll complete the story this week and we&#8217;ll discuss and prepare for the final as we close the fall out.
I&#8217;ll look forward to seeing you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/06/english-9-class-notes-451/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, you spent today responding to your peers&#8217; late narrative argument drafts, but before I shared with you a visual text I came across over the weekend. Crafted originally as a cameo, the powerful image below was designed by British abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood, and I argued the similarities between it and the Douglass text.

Here&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/06/apelc-class-notes-366/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, today and yesterday we talked over your reading of &#8220;The Sirens&#8221; and &#8220;Scylla and Charybdis&#8221; and reviewed your study guide and graphic organizer over the same. You had time to begin your After Reading questions related to the reading, and I was able to monitor and guide your work. Those that didn&#8217;t finish in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/03/english-9-class-notes-450/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, we did little the first half of fourth period Thursday, as only five students had completed the reading. Third and fifth periods had fantastic discussions of the Manning piece, and we touched upon a variety of issues including the roles of touch and playful violence among loved ones. I appreciated students&#8217; willingness to share, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/03/apelc-class-notes-365/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, we completed reading about Odysseus&#8217;s encounter with the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis. We discussed certain instances of repetition we read in the poem and observed their roles as place markers for those bards reciting The Odyssey to audiences since the text didn&#8217;t exist in bound texts. You had time to complete the study [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/01/english-9-class-notes-449/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, yesterday and today we talked over the Douglass text, more in fourth period on Tuesday than in third and fifth on Wednesday because of our wacky schedule. We met in the liberry for the last two thirds of class on Tuesday and for the entire period on Wednesday where students drafted their narrative arguments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/12/01/apelc-class-notes-364/</link>
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		<title>Link Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[APELCers, I&#8217;ve repaired the link to the document I asked you to print, review, and bring to next class.
See you Tuesday and Wednesday.
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		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/11/29/link-fixed/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, I&#8217;m sorry that I wasn&#8217;t able to post notes from our last block before the long weekend, but on that Tuesday and Wednesday, we completed the excerpt of our text describing Odysseus&#8217;s time with Circe and the attendant study guide and graphic organizer. We also continued to view and discuss the documentary we&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/11/29/english-9-class-notes-448/</link>
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		<title>APELC Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I wasn&#8217;t able to post notes before the long weekend, APELCers, but I&#8217;ll mention here what we did last the last Tuesday and Wednesday block before the holiday in addition to today&#8217;s activities. On the former two days, we tackled the Nye and Quindlen texts the first half of class and met in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/11/29/apelc-class-notes-363/</link>
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		<title>English 9 Class Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freshmens, I presented you with a quiz over our last reading before we began conventions error corrections practice. After we tackled the corrections as a class, we began the next section of The Odyssey, which relates part of Odysseus&#8217;s interaction with Circe. We&#8217;ll complete this next class, and I hope we&#8217;ll have some time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://learn.robgirard.net/2010/11/22/english-9-class-notes-447/</link>
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