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This past Monday we celebrated the life and passing of those that have touched us in our school community. It’s been a year since my friend and co-worker Laure left us and I thought it would be a good day to use her memory to honor the good parts of ourselves, and to thank those that have gotten us this far. We wrote two letters, one highlighting our strengths, the other to the people that have helped us achieve these strengths and guided us along the way. I now give you the opening to Arthur’s second letter: A letter to the emotional, social, and practical amelioration of Arthur Anderson as it was granted to him consciously or unconsciously by other animate beings. Brilliant. As for the rest of my update, I will let the students do the talking. I have pulled quotes from their blogs from the past few weeks. Proof that it's really take care of business time. We are in the 3rd quarter sweet spot at the moment. Everyone has the gears in motion. There are four and half school weeks until the next exhibitions and we've got a lot of momentum to keep going until we pause again for another point of reflection. Enjoy learning a little bit about each of their projects and have a wonderful weekend!
Sage: I have a ton of sources. I am anticipating a challenge ahead for me is going to be separating bias from truth and fact. I am very interested in the economy, I do not know much about economics and I am excited to learn more. I am thinking about tying economics into my study in Q4. I am also considering studying climate change through geography in Q4; using maps to show and analyze how climate change is impacting different areas.
Who wouldn't want a clean slate especially with how the world is today but the fact remains I want a clean slate Conor: This weekend I have started writing a more abstract and philosophical portion of my essay about decisions. I've now reached a friction point where I realize that I have lots of big concepts which I would love to be able to express in concise English, but don't quite know how. I have reached out to Chris asking for some help with this. I feel like I'm gaining something by asking for input/suggestions, even though inner me is mad because they want to be able to do this on their own. Parker: Anyway, I had a moment. A good moment. By changing the topic of my essay to comparing and contrasting MGM and Warner Bros. Animation studios and their work (mostly Tom and Jerry and looney tunes) I could still make a compare contrast essay with much easier to understand topics. Noah: Make a list of the things you have let fall through the cracks. Noah shared with me the new animation by Don Hertsfeldt called WORLD OF TOMORROW EPISODE TWO: THE BURDEN OF OTHER PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS. I have since had Kristina and Parker watch it also. I suggested it to Conor as well. I recommend both episode one and two, you can purchase them on vimeo! Thanks and appreciation to Noah for always sharing the good stuff. Madison: TRYING TO FALL ASLEEP THOUGHTS ON THE UNIVERSE In traditional chinese medicine theres is this idea of yin and yang. Yin and Yang are opposites. Yin is the moon, feminine side of things, softer, earth, cold, winter, death, structure, small, etc. Yang is the sun, masculine, heaven, day, warmth, summer, ridgid, function, life, large, etc. The idea is that nothing in this universe is yin or yang; everything is a combination of both. What makes things different is the combination of yin and yang. Some things might be 50-50. Some might be 40-60. Some might be 30-70. Some might be 20-80, and etc. Izzy: Cuando cambiando a inglés, hablamos de apariencia en comparación con identidad y como los no es la cosa igual. Cuando siento avergonzada que no tengo apariencia más oscuro o no estoy bastante "mexicana", necesito recordar el aspecto no es el identidad.
Gräe: Today I went with what felt right. [...] I found a great podcast about archetypes that is perfect for my study and have been listening to that. The first episode I listened to was about archetypes in the new Wonder Woman movie, and even though I haven't seen it, it moved me to feel much more respect and adoration for this amazing balanced character. Grace: I am currently on Bill Vicars ASL Lesson 43. I practiced by going along with the video and writing down the sentences and doing it for memory later. Arthur: Then there are letters that are out of use, like wynn, (ƿ) which represented [w], eth (ð) and thorn (þ), which represented modern th, and yogh (ȝ), which mostly represented a voiced velar fricative. That sounds like this. I don't know all the details, but I understand that modern gh as it's used in high, fight, and enough represents what used to be a yogh. As you can see, I get to learn a lot of new things every week.
It's SO wonderful. Be well, amyK |
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