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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Ray Bradbury</title>
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		<title>Integral</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were going over this week&#8217;s academic words pretest today, and when we got to the word integral, I was searching for a way to differentiate it from inherent, which is another word this week. &#8220;Inherent is sort of like &#8216;built-in,&#8217; part of the &#8230;being of something. Like&#8230;you were all born inherently good, unless there was something wrong with your wiring&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Like me!&#8221; A chorus. Sigh. &#8220;Anyway. Integral is more like &#8216;part of the structure&#8217; of something. Without that integral thing, it doesn&#8217;t work. Like&#8230;without your skeleton, you&#8217;re just a big blob of Jell-O goo&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Eewwww.&#8221; (Check out the Ray Bradbury story &#8220;Skeleton.&#8221; Talk about ewww.) &#8220;What. Ever. Your skeleton is integral to your body. Without it, you don&#8217;t really have a body. Integral is also where the word integrity comes from. That ShmartBoard might be nice but, it isn&#8217;t integral to this class. We could still have an effective class without it.&#8221; &#8220;So what is integral for you in this class?&#8221; &#8220;Excellent question, that. Let&#8217;s see. Back in the day, when I started here, I didn&#8217;t have a computer&#8230;Wait, my wife had that old Mac SE over there&#8230; 10 inch greyscale screen, Microsoft Word 2.0, and a printer&#8230;I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing God II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;m finally going to finish the bomb shelter story. Maybe. After we finished The Giver, we had a couple of days before Christmas to sort of debrief and discuss. We talked about &#8220;the end justifying the means&#8221; and such, and if it is OK to sacrifice one innocent to save multiple others. (Here&#8217;s Part I.) Then I busted out something I hadn&#8217;t used in years; the old bomb shelter exercise. I got it out of an old 70&#8242;s touchy-feely teaching book. I had to give some background about &#8220;duck and cover&#8221; and Mutually Assured Destruction and that sort of thing (good groundwork for The Martian Chronicles later on), and they laughed about hiding under their desks from nuclear weapons, and then&#8230; &#8220;So now the missiles are coming in two minutes. Your bomb shelter has enough room and supplies for you, your family, and six other people. But there are 10 people pounding on your door begging to be let in. You have to leave four outside to die.&#8221; I give them the same group of ten supplicants I got from the old book: a) An accountant, 31 years old, b) his wife who is 6 months pregnant, c) a [...]]]></description>
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