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Oct. 3, 2010

Our Visual Representation project for "The Matrix" will be completed in class on Monday.

Oct. 3, 2010

We have completed and handed-in a peer-edited written response to "A Pair of Silk Stockings," and questions about the story "Once More To the Lake."

Literary Terms due Monday.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, Oct. 6. We will have Monday and Tuesday to work on it.



Sept. 13, 2010

Hello, welcome to Miss Goulden's ELA 30-2 homework record. So far in the course we have created and handed in our rubrics based on the course curriculum and we have written one response to the short story "The Return" by the man with the unpronounceable name. That response was to be be about how the author's use of simple sentences, three of the elements from the Literary Criticism hand-out, and the symbols of the river and the small bundle all added up to prove that this short story was "x" (insert your opinion.

Our second written response is about Isabel Allende's "Two Words" and how it is an allegory because ....

Please remember to bring a silent reading book with you to class!

Sept. 13, 2010

We are in the season of Ordinary Time. All Church vestments are therefore green. We use green in Ordinary Time as a symbol of the "triumph of life over death" (p. 106, Daley) which is the central message of the Resurrection. It is "ordinary" time because we are not, at present, celebrating any particular event or season. Nonetheless, it is an important part of the life of the Church year.

We cannot be forever extreme in our reverence of certain components of our faith because it then becomes normal and bland to be excited. We need to have a rest period, a time for everyday life, and a time for a less enthused relationship with God. God is here for us through celebration and through tragedy, but He is also here for us through the drudgery of everyday life. The times of celebration can only be celebratory if they have a time of relative normalcy to be compared with.

Further, there are a great many elements of our faith that are not emphasized in either the times of year surrounding Christmas or Easter. Instead, we cannot forget things like our daily prayer life, living our vocation, discerning right and wrong in our treatment of God's Creation, and in living lives of service to our families and community. Ordinary Time is a chance to actually live our lives following the principles we learn from Christ's message.

Daley, Michael J. Our Catholic Symbols. 2009, Twenty-Third Publications (Bayard): New London, CT.