Happy 71st tomorrow to my main man, Bruce!
Predictions: Bengals stomp Alta tonight on Senior Night 45-21, and Saturday the Utes bounce back against ASU and solve all the red zone issues to win 35-17.
English 12A: Today we continued to read The Alchemist (see the reading schedule on a previous post or on Canvas and link to the PDF and read the section we covered today in class). We read this This I Believe essay as a way to deepen our understanding of some of the developing themes in the novel: https://thisibelieve.org/essay/39783/
We also watched the first 18 or so minutes of The Last Lecture, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&t=973s Randy Pauch discusses "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," and I figured since much of what you wrote about concerning your own Personal Legends yesterday, it would be good to think about how to actually go about achieving them. You can watch the whole lecture if you want, and I even have copies of the book if you'd like to read it.
Finally, there is an extra credit opportunity for you: If you attend the school musical, Xanadu, and write a one page analysis of how some of the ideas that Foster discusses in How to Read... are evident in the musical, you can earn up to 50 points extra credit. Remember what Martel writes in the Author's Note of Life of Pi: "If we, citizens, do not support our artists, we sacrifice our imaginations on the altar of crude reality and end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." True dat.
CNF: Today we completed reading Chapter 2 of Freakonomics, and began watching the documentary Addicted to Plastic, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDfRjhEv48
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