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1. Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother's kitchen.
2. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
3. Write a poem about your mother's kitchen.
4. You are not in this poem, but some female relation - aunt, sister, close friend - must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
5. Completed poems, with a suitable image(72 dpi, png, light

The lyrics from K-OS's, "Heaven Only Knows," struck a chord with something we had been discussing in class about "mysticism."

Discuss the following K-OS lyrics based on what we've learned when comparing Western and Eastern Mysticism.

Have a careful listen to a variety of current or classic tunes by a variety of recording artists.

Which artists demonstrate our understanding of Western Mysticism, which are clearly Eastern, are any a little of each?

Students can collect news headlines from a variety of RSS sources using their blog as a news aggregator. Writing about the news is one of the more common uses of a blog throughout the blogosphere. Bloggers blend fact and opinion, rant and satire, sarcasm and criticism, objectivity and subjectivity, style and substance.

Today we asked if there was something all humans strive for after all needs have been met.

Will we decide that we've grown powerful enough? Can we draw a line and say, "this far and no further"?

How do we control the techno-scientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species?

Is it possible for us to refuse to do something that we can do?

Must we forever grow in reach and power?

Something very new has been built into iblog.stjschool.org, "snowsuits." Be up to date with your posts. Hand in an up to date "Assessment Data Sheet." If you think you can handle the responsibility, and if I think you've got the skills, I'll enable your access to "snowsuits." D. Sader (Fed your inner geek lately?)

Recall images, faces, reactions, hecklers, stumbles, successes from the last week preparing and performing for the elementary students. See if you can't work into your reflections a discussion of the postulates: can something come from nothing? does God exist? is our soul immortal? is our will our own? As well, discuss the presence of fear or awe in the psyche of a child. Recall Golding's thesis about the ubiquity of evil in children. Was anyone in our audiences ever "afraid" of our magic? Why? Why not? In addition, you might include a "microcontent" review of our show(s).

from Republic, BOOK VII And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold!