tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59401972024-03-18T21:10:23.953-04:00Joel Swagman (Reviews / TESOL)I use this blog for two different projects: <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/my-reviews.html">my reviews</a> and <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/t.html">my materials for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)</a>. Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.comBlogger6290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-59532819354817176502024-03-17T23:23:00.005-04:002024-03-17T23:23:40.140-04:00That's Good! That's Bad! by Margery Cuyler and David Catrow: Storytime and Writing Prompt(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/tesol-ideas-and-worksheets-subdivision.html">TESOL Materials</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/time-killers-and-time-fillers.html">Time Fillers</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/writing.html">Writing</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/story-time-index.html">Storytime</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/interesting-input-plus-production-prompt.html">Interesting Input plus Production Prompts</a>)<div><br /></div><div>I came across this story, and I thought it would be a great little addition to my <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/interesting-input-plus-production-prompt.html">Interesting Input plus Production Prompts</a> collection</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/KNjAbUEUBRk?si=Qvoghs5oFemXW9Rr">Ms Sandy presents: That's Good! That's Bad! by Margery Cuyler</a></div></div><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KNjAbUEUBRk?si=Qvoghs5oFemXW9Rr" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The follow-up writing prompt is here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8JOM0PzVFeC4A7rL_CUozH91qbJHc2WL4nBSks4VYw/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQU4IRKXCD2s0kKtmxz5JgMHlr0upN62W0xewGN843P6BipNRgZU5lSOLGteczNC9UIewP3ZuxuODPf/pub">pub</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-894feeb0-7fff-85c2-249a-49cc8098f26a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That’s Good! That’s Bad! Write your own story</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">______________________________________________________________________</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh, that’s__________. No, that’s __________!</span></p><br /></span></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-85430872615773270672024-03-17T12:52:00.001-04:002024-03-17T12:52:05.562-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: 1st Samuel </b>(This is a <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. It's also <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">part of my project to read through the Bible</a>.)<div><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp">Started: The Bible</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-72666975910394802922024-03-17T12:50:00.002-04:002024-03-17T12:52:16.571-04:00Ruth (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/w264-h400/jerusalem.jpg" width="264" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;">(<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Book Review</a>--<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/the-bible-index.html">The Bible</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/religion.html">Religion</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">Reread</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/classic-books.html">The Classics</a>) </div><p></p><div>Part of <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">my project to read through the Bible</a>. </div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/started-ruth-this-is-reread.html">Started</a>: March 16, 2024</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/finished-ruth-review-coming-soon.html">Finished</a>: March 17, 2024</div><p></p><div>(This is a <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. I originally read this book in 7th grade. But since this is my first time reviewing this book on this blog, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/03/yet-another-update-to-my-review-project.html">according to my new rules</a>, I'm doing this as a video only review.) </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WuAFGJVCQn0">Ruth (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuAFGJVCQn0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>I explain about my background with the Bible and my reasons for doing this read-through in this blog post here: <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html">https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are links to some of the stuff mentioned in this video:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/01/introduction-to-old-testament-by.html">Introduction to the Old Testament by Christine Hayes: Review of a Youtube Series</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE">https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlogs</a>:</div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/weekly-reading-vlog-149-tides-of-war-by.html">March 17, 2024</a> Ruth 1-4</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Playlist <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5PQCm8ymcnXmnYyFcjC4A9&si=i-ec8MUTdJfKgX71">HERE</a></div></div><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=jaByFgVtCC1V8PRH&list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5PQCm8ymcnXmnYyFcjC4A9" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-88539770135609662722024-03-17T11:58:00.001-04:002024-03-17T11:58:07.448-04:00<div><a href="https://youtu.be/_KLBoDBn06o">Weekly Reading Vlog 149: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield p.244-270, Klara and the Sun</a></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KLBoDBn06o" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>(<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlog</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/11/started-revolutions-podcast-by-mike.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZavY1ClYxj8H3jFET38xoIYqtY-17mtQD3TUHT64Pyck5rfw7esUkrtehokSUJBAopf9_uDLGY5HReZZ5sfyt8WzCuGmNAHaAMv3JC5SbmG5FiDDaBP1ID-6SCXkUCl6XrjTsCgYStgBfkxd7mGQCTdgiyrFWino4aZPbWCHrqfZzaucolQ/w200-h200/revolutions.jpg" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img 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1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="405" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7dIlYr7g5nD7rYQPj-WNy1Uru1Dl3O_rKcb7mlIEJzueHI6nbFnlQUbOPVDUn-9HLoAjMAM5j0daaP5ybHfrwvUcfysDlRusRDqxUIZoGQA8ZgLxjeFTQ23kKcprHPwTHpfFbGN9MESHbCZFg1YBU1x1t2ucb0lo6-3X3fmFVgyv5RkA3YXK/w163-h200/klara.jpg" width="163" /></a><br /><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Book Haul: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Books</a> (350 pages this week--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/reading-goals-200-pages-week.html">the goal is 200 pages</a>)</b></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html">Tides of War by Steven Pressfield </a>p.244-270 (26 pages)</div></div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/started-judges-this-is-reread.html">Judges </a>p.272-289 (Judges 8-21) (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_16.html">finished</a>)(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/judges-jerusalem-bible-book-discussion.html">reviewed</a>) (From <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">The Bible</a>) (17 pages)</div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/started-ruth-this-is-reread.html">Ruth </a>p.290-294 (Ruth 1-4) (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/finished-ruth-review-coming-soon.html">finished</a>) (From <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">The Bible</a>) (4 pages)</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_11.html">Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</a> p.1-303 (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_15.html">finished</a>)(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/klara-and-sun-by-kazuo-ishiguro-book.html">reviewed</a>) (303 pages)</div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/comic-books-and-graphic-novels-index.html">Comic Books</a> (Comic Books don't count towards weekly page counts)</b></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post.html">Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi</a> (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_10.html">finished</a>)(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/persepolis-1-story-of-childhood-by.html">reviewed</a>)</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_30.html">Finn Origins (Rebellion) </a> --no page numbers on this book, but I'm about a quarter of the way through</div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/podcasts-youtube-series-radio-shows-etc.html">Podcasts</a></b>: </div></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-revolutions-season-9-mexican.html">Revolutions Season 9: The Mexican Revolution</a> <b>2nd Listening</b> <b>From </b>9.10- Chickens Coming Home To Roost <b>To:</b> 9.19- The Conventionists</div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/12/will-2024-be-year-i-finally-finish.html">Duolingo</a>: </b></div><div><b>From</b>:<b> </b>Section 2, Unit 9, Level 5, Lesson 1 <b>To: </b>Section 2, Unit 9, Level 8, Lesson 3 (My Duolingo profile is <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JoelSwagman">here</a>. <a href="https://quizlet.com/582275205/duolingo-vocabulary-vietnamese-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt">Here is the quizlet I use to practice all of the vocabulary I've learned in Duolingo</a>, and<a href="https://quizlet.com/860293957/more-duolingo-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt"> here is a smaller quizlet I use to consolidate the new or difficult vocabulary</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Videos from this week:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_11.html">Starting: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/BQKSNJOSUv8">https://youtu.be/BQKSNJOSUv8</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/persepolis-1-story-of-childhood-by.html">Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/EIsfx1fKUuM">https://youtu.be/EIsfx1fKUuM</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/klara-and-sun-by-kazuo-ishiguro-book.html">Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/sJEswIJt8zU">https://youtu.be/sJEswIJt8zU</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/judges-jerusalem-bible-book-discussion.html">Judges (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/00hywNZtLnM">https://youtu.be/00hywNZtLnM</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div>For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/03/weekly-reading-vlog-1-don-quixote-p.html">HERE</a>.</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-1641337382481448012024-03-17T11:04:00.006-04:002024-03-17T12:51:21.548-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Finished</a>: Ruth </b>(Review coming soon. Hopefully)<div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/WuAFGJVCQn0">Ruth (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WuAFGJVCQn0?si=1Nt_h8V8D9rrLRZz" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-87473048349106862332024-03-16T20:44:00.004-04:002024-03-16T20:44:53.885-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: Ruth</b>(This is a <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. It's also <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">part of my project to read through the Bible</a>.)<div><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp">Started: The Bible</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-91225608405303460822024-03-16T20:35:00.004-04:002024-03-16T20:37:47.988-04:00Judges (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/w264-h400/jerusalem.jpg" width="264" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;">(<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Book Review</a>--<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/the-bible-index.html">The Bible</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/religion.html">Religion</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">Reread</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/classic-books.html">The Classics</a>) </div><p></p><div>Part of <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">my project to read through the Bible</a>. </div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/started-judges-this-is-reread.html">Started</a>: March 06, 2024</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_16.html">Finished</a>: March 16, 2024</div><p></p><div>(This is a <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. I originally read this book in 7th grade. But since this is my first time reviewing this book on this blog, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/03/yet-another-update-to-my-review-project.html">according to my new rules</a>, I'm doing this as a video only review.) </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/00hywNZtLnM">Judges (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/00hywNZtLnM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>I explain about my background with the Bible and my reasons for doing this read-through in this blog post here: <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html">https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are links to some of the stuff mentioned in this video:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/01/introduction-to-old-testament-by.html">Introduction to the Old Testament by Christine Hayes: Review of a Youtube Series</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE">https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE</a></div><div>* The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Biblical_Narrative">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Biblical_Narrative</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlogs</a>:</div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/weekly-reading-vlog-148-tides-of-war-by.html">March 10, 2024</a> Judges 1-8</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Playlist <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7N5ekuF3MOrIlejzQK4Vmg&si=IaIkauN2Yi2YXdnw">HERE</a></div></div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=9UlAwmWayqUC9mgk&list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7N5ekuF3MOrIlejzQK4Vmg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-46206084738879453442024-03-16T11:03:00.007-04:002024-03-16T20:30:10.615-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Finished</a>: Judges</b><div><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/00hywNZtLnM">Judges (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/00hywNZtLnM?si=mQJVvAHWe7qUOa25" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-61432004668374661132024-03-15T21:36:00.003-04:002024-03-15T21:43:27.001-04:00Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKbyAdtXnwpt8Py9Tp7vFWN2R9pT4xjUcImrtkiH8VggYv_ZEwdRxtjSKJZ_iof7CZBnQJVjlJqd6kSgk-46bZuycJT8SHOrB2uWVJn9BGVH4oTlq2aDbmzw4btW5E1UllvS_Q4CwWXHS8k8JS_JZXdpE4lvEWG7fIovu1Q9jdYP50wFudJDv/s499/klara.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKbyAdtXnwpt8Py9Tp7vFWN2R9pT4xjUcImrtkiH8VggYv_ZEwdRxtjSKJZ_iof7CZBnQJVjlJqd6kSgk-46bZuycJT8SHOrB2uWVJn9BGVH4oTlq2aDbmzw4btW5E1UllvS_Q4CwWXHS8k8JS_JZXdpE4lvEWG7fIovu1Q9jdYP50wFudJDv/w325-h400/klara.jpg" width="325" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;">(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Book Review</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/fantasy-and-science-fiction.html">Science Fiction</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_11.html">Started</a>: March 11, 2024 </div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_15.html">Finished</a>: March 15, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sJEswIJt8zU">Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review</a></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sJEswIJt8zU?si=-CmI1BKxpGuGzMZc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are the titles that I blanked on when filming the video:</div><div>The name of the movie which focuses on the themes of genetic manipulation and discrimination: <i>Gattaca</i></div><div>The name of the novel in which the narrator has a limited perspective: <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i></div><div>The Black Mirror episode about bringing back dead loved ones using artificial intelligence: <i>Be Right Back</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Other stuff mentioned:</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2006/12/remains-of-day-by-kazuo-ishiguro.html">My review of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4">https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Playlist <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5bzPC7pUQflP8jFmmLdSxp&si=y-S0sfJqCfL0ZuQW">HERE</a>: </div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=y-S0sfJqCfL0ZuQW&list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5bzPC7pUQflP8jFmmLdSxp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-32566704705050784542024-03-15T03:47:00.008-04:002024-03-15T21:43:21.724-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Finished</a>: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EWQgTtye-4jOW07jdCxyGNGRrs0_YiuK4ThdIHLDm-gXg_bfkWFOH48KvzhXU6e1_JsvTjc2KbNE-lOoVaUe3tI2igxocrLfIfWw6VzLbzXtRLqELbzT9BkPgOq7BXHpgbvwvZzzpYTuInqmf-9dIet0HOHbhRBRgZRCBZVn9RGmz-m29v0h/s499/klara.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="405" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EWQgTtye-4jOW07jdCxyGNGRrs0_YiuK4ThdIHLDm-gXg_bfkWFOH48KvzhXU6e1_JsvTjc2KbNE-lOoVaUe3tI2igxocrLfIfWw6VzLbzXtRLqELbzT9BkPgOq7BXHpgbvwvZzzpYTuInqmf-9dIet0HOHbhRBRgZRCBZVn9RGmz-m29v0h/w520-h640/klara.jpg" width="520" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sJEswIJt8zU">Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: Book Review</a></div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sJEswIJt8zU?si=nK2cicosQ2xffbVN" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are the titles that I blanked on when filming the video:</div><div>The name of the movie which focuses on the themes of genetic manipulation and discrimination: <i>Gattaca</i></div><div>The name of the novel in which the narrator has a limited perspective: <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i></div><div>The Black Mirror episode about bringing back dead loved ones using artificial intelligence: <i>Be Right Back</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Other stuff mentioned:</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2006/12/remains-of-day-by-kazuo-ishiguro.html">My review of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4">https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4</a></div></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-740338161399005862024-03-11T21:50:00.000-04:002024-03-11T21:50:02.288-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: Finn Origins (Rebellion) </b>(On my shelves <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/weekly-reading-vlog-148-tides-of-war-by.html">since March 10, 2024</a>)<div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjn_TcTlZx8q4ZnM35FXO7XZcaoWnXPtesNwtklALmmCbMYS2LRfIKlPvwUJs7YFohpjjy4_vZgoQ86KmKNjY8tQp_aiOPlKyLEpTCkcHkKqeGWN_kUAOpr39tmdQIKDfRL4LXsw0h4id65hZTFsOPwF3wYNL-Iet_p8D0RzTw55ys4Sq-yTu/s1000/rebellion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="742" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjn_TcTlZx8q4ZnM35FXO7XZcaoWnXPtesNwtklALmmCbMYS2LRfIKlPvwUJs7YFohpjjy4_vZgoQ86KmKNjY8tQp_aiOPlKyLEpTCkcHkKqeGWN_kUAOpr39tmdQIKDfRL4LXsw0h4id65hZTFsOPwF3wYNL-Iet_p8D0RzTw55ys4Sq-yTu/w474-h640/rebellion.jpg" width="474" /></a></div></div></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-41075911943357286972024-03-11T21:37:00.001-04:002024-03-11T21:37:11.143-04:00Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi: Book Review<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8c1qir7CfusVTwJgNuRVDUlJpZtJCYKY8DyI2W1UIqnYKOlVrF4C6T9OMkwXg0v2AMftSocHE_enOe_Dmcf1z4ZQPWRsfBVizT0Jq-FrAbyMAN3WJWpVHvLUQd-HKWBePmLltR1xCNEHUhIioIpf6bi8u_VqHn8xhX2i_i5BcmhCIErtNw-0r/s744/persepolis.webp" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8c1qir7CfusVTwJgNuRVDUlJpZtJCYKY8DyI2W1UIqnYKOlVrF4C6T9OMkwXg0v2AMftSocHE_enOe_Dmcf1z4ZQPWRsfBVizT0Jq-FrAbyMAN3WJWpVHvLUQd-HKWBePmLltR1xCNEHUhIioIpf6bi8u_VqHn8xhX2i_i5BcmhCIErtNw-0r/w258-h400/persepolis.webp" width="258" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;">(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Book Review</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/comic-books-and-graphic-novels-index.html">Comic Books</a>) </div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post.html">Started</a>: March 04, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_10.html">Finished</a>: March 10, 2024</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(This is my first time reading this book, so <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/03/yet-another-update-to-my-review-project.html">according to my new rules</a>, I'm doing this as a video only review.) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EIsfx1fKUuM">Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi: Book Review</a></div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EIsfx1fKUuM?si=Edykt8e98uTtFuiY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlogs</a>:</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/weekly-reading-vlog-148-tides-of-war-by.html">March 10, 2024</a> Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi p.1-153 </div><div><br /></div><div>Playlist <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7rU28snblSjSC1PsePlqso&si=py69OmBvVbfZy-b_">HERE</a>:</div><div><br /></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=py69OmBvVbfZy-b_&list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7rU28snblSjSC1PsePlqso" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-1218703382801820722024-03-11T09:54:00.002-04:002024-03-11T13:08:48.650-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EWQgTtye-4jOW07jdCxyGNGRrs0_YiuK4ThdIHLDm-gXg_bfkWFOH48KvzhXU6e1_JsvTjc2KbNE-lOoVaUe3tI2igxocrLfIfWw6VzLbzXtRLqELbzT9BkPgOq7BXHpgbvwvZzzpYTuInqmf-9dIet0HOHbhRBRgZRCBZVn9RGmz-m29v0h/s499/klara.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="405" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EWQgTtye-4jOW07jdCxyGNGRrs0_YiuK4ThdIHLDm-gXg_bfkWFOH48KvzhXU6e1_JsvTjc2KbNE-lOoVaUe3tI2igxocrLfIfWw6VzLbzXtRLqELbzT9BkPgOq7BXHpgbvwvZzzpYTuInqmf-9dIet0HOHbhRBRgZRCBZVn9RGmz-m29v0h/w520-h640/klara.jpg" width="520" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/BQKSNJOSUv8">Starting: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BQKSNJOSUv8?si=ksNEt1wVTYj1PRnG" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Links to stuff mentioned:</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2006/12/remains-of-day-by-kazuo-ishiguro.html">My review of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4">https://youtu.be/Q83pg-Q-9I4</a></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-66645408938761084572024-03-10T11:52:00.005-04:002024-03-17T11:54:38.326-04:00<div><a href="https://youtu.be/-mxtzQ0R4CE">Weekly Reading Vlog 148: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield p.142-244, Judges 1-8, Persepolis 1</a></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-mxtzQ0R4CE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>(<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlog</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/11/started-revolutions-podcast-by-mike.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZavY1ClYxj8H3jFET38xoIYqtY-17mtQD3TUHT64Pyck5rfw7esUkrtehokSUJBAopf9_uDLGY5HReZZ5sfyt8WzCuGmNAHaAMv3JC5SbmG5FiDDaBP1ID-6SCXkUCl6XrjTsCgYStgBfkxd7mGQCTdgiyrFWino4aZPbWCHrqfZzaucolQ/w200-h200/revolutions.jpg" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="663" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSln-XwCrakOLEgUc8q-LLKrkDKUi_aLkt9KpcMctBQKP3EoEcTKmlXTvwneS9bN2JIFun31H1OgDgvl3tdlxTPS5N0zMGA5QBWJjvEil-EK8uZCmMggqJPR__kM9-sTpFQXWc7X1WEYBprDeXmDfVkXCLNB7isfxbcOKKXsP5LFhLZRQsrPbM/w133-h200/tides.jpg" width="133" /></a><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0oQacK75qYdV85qo7Z7FNmqyCzTKf-XUJ1VyvCIOKUclDfP37B0WM4E7aEBmb3jGROFdjreYdKqS7MpYNBaOpEsAF7mnrxTAlSWsr6qzisRI5c7ObZF6_WkgTnbe5tC-WjMhn9RA1-S4Rzr_wxGEeckUfBo1TSfUJ03FYftQuxc1ey8KHqhUa/w132-h200/jerusalem.jpg" width="132" /></a><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5-8JQyzlGlhc165HGDc14pJJZVSWuofyyb0cpRo_xrxW0JrX4QDSmDON3MPf3k-9S6COe4UdzHPIH2fnj7b9Zhyn-X-l3Ewfh_P4C8xhkUxgokewxMfenhCdMeGHY-lbdlsuVMbFRp8ShPcg2CBy7z94CrxcnBfneC4b5fpo4Iqr5J8hyaxY/w129-h200/persepolis.webp" width="129" /></a><br /><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Book Haul: Finn Origins</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Books</a> (121 pages this week--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/reading-goals-200-pages-week.html">the goal is 200 pages</a>)</b></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html">Tides of War by Steven Pressfield </a>p.142-244 (102 pages)</div></div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/started-joshua-this-is-reread.html">Joshua </a>p.252-259 (Joshua 19-24) (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/finished-joshua-review-coming-soon.html">finished</a>) (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/joshua-jerusalem-bible-book-discussion.html">reviewed</a>) (From <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">The Bible</a>) (7 pages)</div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/started-judges-this-is-reread.html">Judges </a>p.260-272 (Judges 1-8) (From <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">The Bible</a>) (12 pages)</div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/comic-books-and-graphic-novels-index.html">Comic Books</a> (Comic Books don't count towards weekly page counts)</b></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post.html">Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi</a> p.1-153 (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-post_10.html">finished</a>)</div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/podcasts-youtube-series-radio-shows-etc.html">Podcasts</a></b>: </div></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-revolutions-season-9-mexican.html">Revolutions Season 9: The Mexican Revolution</a> <b>2nd Listening</b> <b>From </b>9.02- The Cry of Dolores <b>To: </b>9.10- Chickens Coming Home To Roost</div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/12/will-2024-be-year-i-finally-finish.html">Duolingo</a>: </b></div><div><b>From</b>:<b> </b>Section 2, Unit 9, Level 2, Lesson 2 <b>To: </b>Section 2, Unit 9, Level 5, Lesson 1 (My Duolingo profile is <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JoelSwagman">here</a>. <a href="https://quizlet.com/582275205/duolingo-vocabulary-vietnamese-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt">Here is the quizlet I use to practice all of the vocabulary I've learned in Duolingo</a>, and<a href="https://quizlet.com/860293957/more-duolingo-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt"> here is a smaller quizlet I use to consolidate the new or difficult vocabulary</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Videos from this week:</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/joshua-jerusalem-bible-book-discussion.html">Joshua (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/01hHJvUPubo">https://youtu.be/01hHJvUPubo</a></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/history-of-paris-commune-by-prosper.html">History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Olivier Lissagaray: Book Review (Complete)</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/rS0bUzNdtz0">https://youtu.be/rS0bUzNdtz0</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div>For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/03/weekly-reading-vlog-1-don-quixote-p.html">HERE</a>.</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-74475634791782804282024-03-10T11:34:00.000-04:002024-03-10T11:34:44.388-04:00<a href="https://youtu.be/rS0bUzNdtz0">History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Olivier Lissagaray: Book Review (Complete)</a><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rS0bUzNdtz0?si=M36KLujVrVOHFR6y" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><div>This video was originally published in two parts: </div><div>Part 1: <a href="https://youtu.be/kxrLRODCCVE">https://youtu.be/kxrLRODCCVE</a></div><div>Part 2: <a href="https://youtu.be/11VEqrJ0CfA">https://youtu.be/11VEqrJ0CfA</a></div><div>At the time, I didn't have access to editing equipment, so I just uploaded the videos separately. But now I've combined them into one video.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>From this old blogpost:</div><div><div><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2007/04/history-of-paris-commune-by-prosper.html">http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2007/04/history-of-paris-commune-by-prosper.html</a></div></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-82208605294862169782024-03-10T10:58:00.005-04:002024-03-11T21:32:09.699-04:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Finished</a>: Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi </b>(I hope to film the review tomorrow)<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66A_WzUagt3NlwA3Yoq7utoNYm3T4fSjosGuFJBMvYgJXmGVKcC2-IR2h2fEO1PLXyTPxbbyyevH1iE1idGFxuiicXd-AWjxD4rNk8zOpJog4XxZP7aGRdLJ_h-pgQq5lO5hO33YeuIts5So-4Lrq4BUtQF66iGF6Vm0tFXPY3USMeNeCVj6r/s744/persepolis.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66A_WzUagt3NlwA3Yoq7utoNYm3T4fSjosGuFJBMvYgJXmGVKcC2-IR2h2fEO1PLXyTPxbbyyevH1iE1idGFxuiicXd-AWjxD4rNk8zOpJog4XxZP7aGRdLJ_h-pgQq5lO5hO33YeuIts5So-4Lrq4BUtQF66iGF6Vm0tFXPY3USMeNeCVj6r/w412-h640/persepolis.webp" width="412" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://youtu.be/EIsfx1fKUuM">Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi: Book Review</a><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EIsfx1fKUuM?si=Edykt8e98uTtFuiY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-33943335084686220242024-03-06T10:40:00.004-05:002024-03-06T10:40:56.704-05:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: Judges </b>(This is a <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. It's also <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">part of my project to read through the Bible</a>.)<div><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp">Started: The Bible</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSASoBvenLM?si=acn_g6UyAZJPrBEp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-70052243192908529262024-03-06T10:12:00.004-05:002024-03-08T20:36:04.040-05:00Joshua (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxw4pg9nH8GLQnNNVXEJezJDAvfxoxc_WbIb9cI63BHzvoV7mHmw66C3Ue4hx7wWYL5Hn7l0yENTeCztkhYEoWwuInAHxj2d6EOfk9wWTbaO4pxLz7PUaiFJgdP0td4uOsGb5zrA3yNcoRjSm7m88eBjD4edA6UNvwt6IiGOrEu_74EKrlFC-j/w264-h400/jerusalem.jpg" width="264" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;">(<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Book Review</a>--<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/the-bible-index.html">The Bible</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/religion.html">Religion</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">Reread</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/classic-books.html">The Classics</a>) </div><p></p><div>Part of <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">my project to read through the Bible</a>. </div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/started-joshua-this-is-reread.html">Started</a>: January 24, 2024</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/finished-joshua-review-coming-soon.html">Finished</a>: March 06, 2024</div><p></p><div>(This is a <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/12/rereads-index.html">reread</a>. I originally read this book in 7th grade. But since this is my first time reviewing this book on this blog, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/03/yet-another-update-to-my-review-project.html">according to my new rules</a>, I'm doing this as a video only review.) </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/01hHJvUPubo">Joshua (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/01hHJvUPubo?si=-pCK0ESfX7mQ1mq1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>[This is another video review that isn't really all that good. There are several points in this video I either didn't make very well, or forgot to make. Like<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/03/yet-another-update-to-my-review-project.html"> I said in this post</a>, a drop in quality was likely going to be the inevitable result of my new system. Maybe some day I'll come back to this book and take another stab at it. But on the other hand, it's no great loss to the literary world if I don't. There are so many commentaries on the Bible out there already, that I wouldn't have said anything new anyway.]<br /><div><br /></div><div>I explain about my background with the Bible and my reasons for doing this read-through in this blog post here: <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html">https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Here are links to some of the stuff mentioned in this video:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/01/introduction-to-old-testament-by.html">Introduction to the Old Testament by Christine Hayes: Review of a Youtube Series</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE">https://youtu.be/UFeqGtb3zAE</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-unauthorized-version-truth-and.html">The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/16nOVedFPmY">https://youtu.be/16nOVedFPmY</a></div><div>* The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns: <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-bible-tells-me-so-by-peter-enns.html">http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-bible-tells-me-so-by-peter-enns.html</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-age-of-reason-by-thomas-paine.html">The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/ElY3IU4Oty4">https://youtu.be/ElY3IU4Oty4</a></div><div>* The History in the Bible Podcast. Book of Joshua: The Conquest of Canaan: <a href="https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/joshua-conquest-of-canaan.html">https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/joshua-conquest-of-canaan.html</a></div><div>* The 12 Tribes of Israel and Judah: <a href="https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/twelve-tribes-of-israel.html#map">https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/twelve-tribes-of-israel.html#map</a> </div><div>* Wikipedia Page: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/weekly-reading-vlogs-list.html">Weekly Reading Vlogs</a>:</div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/weekly-reading-vlog-143-three-kingdoms.html">January 28, 2024</a> Joshua 1-7</div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/weekly-reading-vlog-144-three-kingdoms.html">February 04, 2024</a> Joshua 7-9</div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/weekly-reading-vlog-147-tides-of-war-by.html">March 03, 2024</a> Joshua 9-19</div><div><br /></div><div>Playlist <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5Q3-IG3LL5X4ao0sa2jOvj&si=hrNHXFWvGG6t15xN">HERE</a></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=60CqbwB2iBYz7hKY&list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5Q3-IG3LL5X4ao0sa2jOvj" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-35155119211573101272024-03-06T08:42:00.004-05:002024-03-06T10:05:04.999-05:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Finished</a>: Joshua </b>(Review coming soon. Hopefully. With any luck, I can squeeze in some time to do a quick review tomorrow.)<div><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/s1271/jerusalem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_e-Sd-xiCsm4PLEPk2ZIo1ZglQEYC65zzqkk2sM1iRocRMpvig6FpFZS_YR9eYhGM9V4bqyIYwwdVcPw24fmikyZMaRFSvDOjE4KipmdABE9wVM7gvVx41hAQsVP1bVmM1UrtPycBfVtePKDOksZrDebkkP3Pyw3Gr4S_zlWN4F-ncytsRAW/w422-h640/jerusalem.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://youtu.be/01hHJvUPubo">Joshua (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/01hHJvUPubo?si=-pCK0ESfX7mQ1mq1" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-1313511315841082882024-03-05T11:28:00.010-05:002024-03-17T22:21:28.580-04:00Interesting Input plus Production Prompts(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/tesol-ideas-and-worksheets-subdivision.html">TESOL Materials</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/comprehensible-input.html">Comprehensible Input</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/reading.html">Reading</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/writing.html">Writing</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/topic-lessons.html">Topic Lessons</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/time-killers-and-time-fillers.html">Time Killers and Time Fillers</a>)<div><br /></div><div>Google: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LgoflCvkfbpObmAlpnUH_XsEJxAijqQimsUYO-Avifo/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRKWEI_TaiA1b5Gc-qTiTSCSkaspybvUrCNTJ7tcgQCfzts-5v-ljDq-Pjru14D_eoZTzvHbv_d73xe/pub">pub</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ef3306c-7fff-3cdd-5fed-7044e7213a12"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col></col><col></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Input</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Productive Activity</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SnjxtzHknuFI7nVFnqjwZrRy-M88d_1YX_2opbkUkiQ/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Notes</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: The pre and post vocabulary slides are one of my less inspired ideas. Probably best to skip the vocabulary and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SnjxtzHknuFI7nVFnqjwZrRy-M88d_1YX_2opbkUkiQ/edit#slide=id.p28" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">jump right to the beginning of the story</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. This is true of the subsequent slideshows as well.</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhB75n5LmSJSYfyQe1zwRXryhxA7uQQ1ElngnVdUIOg/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students write about their own bad day</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Notes</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: This can be a real bad day or an imaginary bad day, but it’s best if the tone is humorous rather than sad. Discourage students from writing about something tragic like the death of a family member. </span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C1MYhAI8orW_cy6MqNe3CyNWyJkjx0MoVEl-o83koRE/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fortunately by Remy Charlip</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yfAxP3iPQRO8gv2lcZD9o-TtZfIpesnvPomtgDgRK30/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Write a story in the same style</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/196kqGseVe6ejBYgLT61vPsn_VmfUpqDLiPkT-RDbzgY/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz_bs7RFqMEaItM-qL0uSJXCO0wJsQKhTbeUfDwbtfw/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Write a story in the same style</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwfpQvvdSIRrxsf31uN7B9zJqUAh-nr5sXd3utBoQB8/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That's Good! That's Bad by Margery Cuyler</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B8JOM0PzVFeC4A7rL_CUozH91qbJHc2WL4nBSks4VYw/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Write a story in the same style</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WocA2XsCakd0wchZb9ZUh4YlyPKIJKvhSy-kEOoBcyI/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fox in Socks</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/0B5QgMDk6npsRa1F3TVpjaUZFOGM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116889565870555367251&resourcekey=0-xMHp-7yb4PGSEok8HKo2SA&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Running Dictation</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Or, alternatively, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XFWJ2BLGwKLzZxIRTC-sdTtgkeggO_lgoaQWY_xqHfc/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">give students the transcript </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and have them try to read it aloud to a partner as fast as possible.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Og0CP9HM761KFdrU0Xa8gX6T_79vllsZ42DyZ1xgUqo/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Where the Wild Things Are</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QU7vsL5MNjiyu0bxXly1t3c7vC_ZychLdPbpaTeWs2Y/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Make Your Own Wild Thing</span></a></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Choose </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5QgMDk6npsRX3pfME5weklKUEE?resourcekey=0-0rz-rrGVqL7_zQHN9O32EQ&usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">any picture book from this folder</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Read half of the story, but don’t read the ending.</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zmA35v16bt2WwCgD8AKtYOCFjF2-kWi6wyDvFxZ_xmo/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students write their own endings</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Notes</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: This can theoretically work with any story, but in the past I’ve had good results using </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oto5uxSz8TXXpNs3-MyS1HlyRaxuLvMlJ2Tyjt9PfSk/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Cat in the Hat</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (stop at </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oto5uxSz8TXXpNs3-MyS1HlyRaxuLvMlJ2Tyjt9PfSk/edit#slide=id.g8c454f5357_0_1146" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">slide 381</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">), and</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14hl1b3go-yJKYsu-OYrc74V-KDPPYYKHPYIoEUxSjTc/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The Gruffalo</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (stop at </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14hl1b3go-yJKYsu-OYrc74V-KDPPYYKHPYIoEUxSjTc/edit#slide=id.p135" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">slide 162</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Choose </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ciriEAWqvBRAnNuNBiTkk7PVuhsXMqME?usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">any fairy tale from this folder</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Have the students read the first half of the story, but don’t read the ending.</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEkk-NxLxtWMzeepW_Swj_Gz5kWdRXAGKVM9aX07zOc/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students write their own endings</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15ehbiY8i2k7SHlHAeAcIVjGwGZcpJ4uA7QoN0JX_Pzw/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Jokes</span></a></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GapPixTnGh3n_5PrTPmsJrFeAO8udJ8OXXpnj7QWscQ/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students come up with their own jokes</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, then the classmates try to guess the punchline</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">General Knowledge Quiz (</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QgMDk6npsRSmZYSUtpRGdMck0/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hard</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQnNso0-c8dU7wLGWeHkfKJdhP09asKegNPeSVSrf0g/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Easy</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Notes</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: Draw Grid on Whiteboard, but don’t show students the questions. Students choose a box on the grid, and then hear the question.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hurricane—the team loses all their points</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rocket—team has the option of destroying all the points of one of the other teams</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Arrow—team has the option of swapping score totals with another team.</span></p><br /></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QgMDk6npsRLVZCTy1oZ3hXbEk/view?resourcekey=0-w8yalfeSiNh0etLV6JQDWQ" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Students make their own general knowledge quiz for the other teams</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Ideas for Feedback on the Writing:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Students stand up in front of the class and read their stories aloud</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">The teacher collects the stories, and the teacher reads them out</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Post the stories up around the classroom, and do a gallery walk. Students then go back to their tables and vote on the best story.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In my experience, the success of each method of feedback varies depending on the character of the class. I’ve had some classes where students had a lot of laughs standing up and reading their stories to the class, and some classes where students reacted with horror to the idea of being asked to read their stories to the class. Use your own judgement.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I don’t give a lot of grammar feedback on the stories, because I view them as primarily a fluency and creativity exercise. But I collect them after the class finishes, and try to write a short little personalized message to each student to show them I had read and appreciated the story. (e.g. “Excellent story Ha. This made me laugh. I liked the part where…”).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I may also take a couple sentences from each story (one correct and one incorrect from each student), put them on a word document, and do a grammar auction with them in the subsequent class. But I wouldn’t do any more grammar correction than that. </span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><b>Notes</b>: This document is a collection of materials that consist of one piece of input and a corresponding production prompt. </div><div>This is a continuation of my ongoing effort to make studying English more interesting by getting away from the textbook and giving students enjoyable input. In the past, I've done this by doing a little bit of a movie each lesson (see my<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2015/02/showing-movies-in-classroom.html"> movie worksheets</a>) or doing part of an ongoing story each lesson (see for example <i><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2019/10/bone-by-jeff-smith-partial-review.html">Bone </a></i>or <i><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/01/mrs-frisby-and-rats-of-nimh-worksheets.html">Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH</a></i>). </div><div>However, recently, I've been moving away from an ongoing story or movie for a couple of reasons:</div><div>1) Previously I had been teaching 8-12 year olds, and they were quite happy to do many ongoing movies or storybooks, but now I'm teaching primarily teenagers, and I've discovered that teenagers have more niche interests, and it's difficult to find a movie or story that everyone likes.</div><div>2) Some of my classes now I only see once a week, and therefore it is difficult to keep the ongoing story fresh in their memory between classes.</div><div>So, I've switched to using input that is self-contained. i.e. Instead of a long story that stretches several lessons, we do a shorter story that is only one lesson. </div><div>And then all of these inputs are combined with a production activity.</div><div>The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LgoflCvkfbpObmAlpnUH_XsEJxAijqQimsUYO-Avifo/edit?usp=sharing">Google Doc</a> was put together for the purpose of sharing these activities with my colleagues, and thus doesn't contain any links back to this blog. But all of these activities have been linked before on this blog. The relevant links are as follows:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/story-time-index.html">Story Time Picture Book Index</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/alexander-and-terrible-horrible-no-good.html">Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/03/fortunately-by-remy-charlip.html">Fortunately by Remy Charlip</a> and <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2015/10/fortunately-unfortunately-esl-activity.html">Writing Prompt</a></div><div>*<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/04/where-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak.html"> Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/03/fox-in-socks-by-dr-seuss.html">Fox and Socks</a> with <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/09/fox-in-socks-links-text-of-fox-in-socks.html">Running Dictation</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/because-little-bug-went-ka-choo.html">Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo: Storytime and Writing Prompt</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-cat-in-hat-by-dr-seuss.html">The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-gruffalo-by-julia-donaldson-and.html">The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/brothers-grimm-fairy-tales-write-your.html">Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: Write Your Own Ending</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/04/lesson-on-jokes.html">Lesson on Jokes</a> and <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-best-jokes.html">Best Jokes</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/09/general-knowledge-quiz.html">General Knowledge Quiz</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/08/gallery-walk-feedback-activity-for.html">Gallery Walk: Feedback Activity for Writing</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/grammar-auction-for-grammar-lessons-and.html">Grammar Auction: For Grammar Lessons and for Writing</a></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-16394647277235809252024-03-04T11:29:00.001-05:002024-03-04T11:29:16.821-05:00Grammar Auction: For Grammar Lessons and for Writing(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/tesol-ideas-and-worksheets-subdivision.html">TESOL Ideas</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/any-grammar-point.html">Any Grammar Point</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/writing.html">Writing</a>)<div><br /></div><div>I've talked about grammar auctions a few times on this blog before, see for example <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/12/activities-that-can-be-used-for-any.html">here </a>and <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/10/activities-that-can-be-used-for-any.html">here</a> and <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2020/07/language-practice-activities-grammar.html">here</a>. </div><div>To quote my own explanation from those previous posts:<br /><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Students are given a set amount of points (or fake money) and are instructed to buy as many correct sentences as they can. (After the auction, correct sentences will be worth points, whereas incorrect sentences will be minus points). The students bid with each other to buy the correct sentences at an auction.</span> </blockquote></div><div>Of course grammar auctions are not my original idea. In fact, they're an old TESOL classic that you can find in any TESOL activities list.</div><div>See, for example, the British Council. <a href="https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/activities/pre-intermediate-a2/grammar-auction">I'll quote from their description of it as well just for reference</a>:</div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>* Put the students into pairs or small groups and give them the auction sheet.</div><div>* Ask the students to plan which sentences they are going to bid for.</div><div>* Conduct the auction, asking for bids on each sentence and selling to the highest bidder. You or the students need to keep track of how much money they have spent to make sure they don't overspend!</div><div>* After all the sentences are sold, go through them and get a class vote on which sentences are correct. Confirm the answers.</div><div>*Find out who managed to buy the most correct sentences.</div><div>* Ask pairs to correct the incorrect sentences.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>So, that's the classic version.</div><div>Now, I have a small confession to make. I've been able to make this activity work successfully in its classic form.</div><div>For one thing, it's confusing. The game involves both money and points, and I frequently have difficulty getting the students to understand that the object of the game is to end up with the most points, not the most money.</div><div>Secondly, I have difficulty controlling the game. Students frequently like to bid all their money on the first sentence, and then if they blow all their money of the first sentence, what are they going to do for the rest of the game?</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. (Grammar auctions are a very well-known TESOL activity. They should be workable, right?) In the past, I've asked the other teachers in my school how they run grammar auctions, and the answer usually comes back that either they don't do it, or they adapt it. </div><div>So... does anyone actually do grammar auctions in the classic form? Or are they just something in the teaching training manuals that no one actually does in real life? Or perhaps they work better with European students than with Asian students? </div><div><br /></div><div>In the past, I've tried to adapt grammar auctions by having the students bet on the sentences instead of auctioning the sentences. So, for example, each team starts up to 10 points. They are shown a sentence, and must decide if it is correct or incorrect, and place a bet. (They can never bet more than the amount of points that they currently hold.)</div><div>This works moderately well. It takes away the messy problem of dealing with the fake money, and if students bet and lose all their points, I loan them one point so that they can get back in the game.</div><div><br /></div><div>But I still have one more problem, and that is the students often don't find the game challenging enough. Or at least, the class as a whole doesn't find it challenging. This is particularly true when I am doing just one grammar point in isolation. In every class, there are usually 4 or 5 students who are already confident with that grammar point, and can easily identify all the correct sentences. (Because the game doesn't have a productive element to it, it's simply just about recognizing the correct pattern, and many students can do this very easily.) So then the game falls apart because the class gets bored with it.</div><div><br /></div><div>This third point is, of course, potentially manageable if you only use grammar auctions once you have identified a grammar point that is a genuine point of confusion. That is, don't use grammar auctions as just a fun activity to spice up a normally scheduled grammar lesson. Wait until you've identified a grammar point that is giving the students a lot of trouble. And make sure that the problem is a comprehension issue, and not a production issue. (i.e. it's not just a problem of forgetting the form during the heat of free conversation, rather it's that the students don't actually understand how the grammar works.)</div><div>In this case, a grammar auction might be useful. </div><div><br /></div><div>However, I find grammar auctions most useful as ways of giving feedback on student writing.</div><div>When I get some writing from my students, and I want to give them some sort of feedback on it, I go through each student's writing and pick out two sentences: one correct sentence, and one wrong sentence. I put two sentences from each sentence on a word document. The sentences are all anonymous, so that the class doesn't know whose sentences are whose. (Although students will often choose to identify their sentences to the class during the game, but that's their choice.) I mix the sentences all up so that the sentences are not in any sort of order, and that the correct and incorrect sentences of any given student are not next to each other.</div><div>This is a good way to balance positive feedback with corrective feedback, because for each student you are showcasing one wrong sentence, but you are also showcasing one positive example from their writing. (Students will recognize their own sentences, even if they are presented anonymously.)</div><div>However, it's often the case that it's difficult to find a single flawless sentence in a student's writing, particularly if they are pushing themselves to express things beyond their current ability. In that case, I might take a mostly good sentence, and then just correct it a little bit. This is not ideal, because it is not as affirming as if I had picked a sentence that the student themselves had written, but often it's unavoidable. And the hope is that the student might even notice the small correction I've put into the sentence, and perhaps take onboard the new grammar.</div><div><br /></div><div>In my classes, I print out the worksheet with all the sentences on it. Students first spend some time individually trying to decide which sentences are correct and which have mistakes on them. Then, I put them in teams, and they check their answers as a team.</div><div>Then, we play the game as a class. I don't actually attempt to do an auction anymore. Most recently, I've been running this game as just a simple "1 point per sentence" scoring system. Students choose any sentence they like (the sentences are all numbered for ease of identification) and then identify if its correct or incorrect. They get one point for simply identifying if its correct or incorrect. If the sentence is incorrect, they can get a bonus point for then supplying the correction themselves. It is thus advantageous for the teams to choose the incorrect sentences, because they are potentially worth two points.</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-82368708159534345152024-03-04T07:55:00.000-05:002024-03-04T07:55:00.591-05:00<b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/08/starting-and-finishing.html">Started</a>: Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi</b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66A_WzUagt3NlwA3Yoq7utoNYm3T4fSjosGuFJBMvYgJXmGVKcC2-IR2h2fEO1PLXyTPxbbyyevH1iE1idGFxuiicXd-AWjxD4rNk8zOpJog4XxZP7aGRdLJ_h-pgQq5lO5hO33YeuIts5So-4Lrq4BUtQF66iGF6Vm0tFXPY3USMeNeCVj6r/s744/persepolis.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66A_WzUagt3NlwA3Yoq7utoNYm3T4fSjosGuFJBMvYgJXmGVKcC2-IR2h2fEO1PLXyTPxbbyyevH1iE1idGFxuiicXd-AWjxD4rNk8zOpJog4XxZP7aGRdLJ_h-pgQq5lO5hO33YeuIts5So-4Lrq4BUtQF66iGF6Vm0tFXPY3USMeNeCVj6r/w412-h640/persepolis.webp" width="412" /></a></div></div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-74230427317803805312024-03-03T11:24:00.005-05:002024-03-17T22:21:09.033-04:00Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: Write Your Own Ending(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/tesol-ideas-and-worksheets-subdivision.html">TESOL Worksheets</a>--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/reading.html">Reading</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/writing.html">Writing</a>, <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/time-killers-and-time-fillers.html">Time Killers and Time Fillers</a>, <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-story.html">The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales</a>)<div><br /></div><div>Google Drive Folder <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ciriEAWqvBRAnNuNBiTkk7PVuhsXMqME?usp=drive_link">HERE</a></div><div>* Faithful John: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TdsIEtyPfbj-WbO3Nb2v2D2SSUVSnCAmbxirqlw-IC0/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vThibzVde1VI_jHZwJKdRIAUQgmsPNPPmHc2meJtnc7b3fYqFInZf-eLZBqw3GTq_5HFHg3Emwn_OwU/pub">pub</a></div><div>* Lady Mary’s Child: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VFml3L_PiI2Djr4HWP72MQhzQrP22845DrMpkJYD1pw/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQRCCsv-qCoNfds73SD2HrBQaGrx2I0xa3n4IYuo-F0Dj2__JUyBuTFGOpU9L_O5U7rA106nm5J8vad/pub">pub</a></div><div>* The Frog Who Wanted a Friend: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17khTTZdF7CJ7mtlSLkYFuodR4aF_Ekd9wgUtltWWqBg/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2YpPjodqZjVD9WUdbxfgbMjwSHRlX_j9Ox-yXLPi4dWaWLiruaK5mriM6C8e58dxoBGK2dKCwjc0e/pub">pub</a></div><div>* The Golden Bird: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17JZOrNRlNG0lnG_3Na2bL-JhRfhoqvmrhJd2CUksGC8/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS-HXLttanZcRV262D3wIRv-NVcox20Ty0lff7uSmckVTk9_e-eI-bGAE3y3TOUc-hnIHWhu1eZMFK2/pub">pub</a></div><div>* The King of the Golden Mountain: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hIoiFaFvquZWk4XA6fuGirtL67a_B_iPdNUQqFUlUZI/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTj7RaI-Gkc-y7FrRSUG4DH9onhnSGN2sV5NRQ7PtW3xhti1qQsBB4-e_G7stxLmwAfNX87UGPTfSsB/pub">pub</a></div><div>* The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-jMltXncYO66_RjRpuOu_ePBZPTIwnnsGTfQDoDq08/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRtU7MxjZXiHLiN2bCYSYmWvSDVdrQzoa7atI-W1BYThzcgcVWR4AanJFkqLHryfUUFnieHJyPZatRD/pub">pub</a></div><div>* Writing Sheet: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEkk-NxLxtWMzeepW_Swj_Gz5kWdRXAGKVM9aX07zOc/edit?usp=sharing">docs</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDNdCte7lKYRhcqqN9Dyr78v_dnjkwBQUERIrAi9E78465EnQ1wt9ZSRcx_VSwpIYsocS4BrHEMVL_/pub">pub</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Notes</b>: These are based on stories I posted previously as part of my <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-story.html">Grimm Brothers' Story Time ESL Listening Project</a>. I have repurposed them to serve as writing prompts. With the new worksheets, the story is split into two. The students read the first half of the story, and then write the second half of the story using <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEkk-NxLxtWMzeepW_Swj_Gz5kWdRXAGKVM9aX07zOc/edit?usp=sharing">this worksheet</a>.</div><div>This is part of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LgoflCvkfbpObmAlpnUH_XsEJxAijqQimsUYO-Avifo/edit?usp=sharing">a new project I'm working on in my classroom to combine interesting input with productive prompts</a>. I hope to post more about that in the future.</div><div>It is also based off of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zmA35v16bt2WwCgD8AKtYOCFjF2-kWi6wyDvFxZ_xmo/edit?usp=sharing">a similar worksheet</a> that I used for <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LgoflCvkfbpObmAlpnUH_XsEJxAijqQimsUYO-Avifo/edit?usp=sharing">my Storytime picture book collection</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>For the original worksheets that these writing prompts are based on, see:</div><div><div>* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-golden-bird-grimm-brothers-fairy.html">The Golden Bird</a><br />* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-frog-prince-grimm-brothers-fairy.html">The Frog Prince</a><br />* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cat-and-mouse-living-together-grimm.html">A Cat and a Mouse Living Together</a><br />* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/09/lady-marys-child-grimm-brothers-fairy.html">Lady Mary's Child</a><br />* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-wolf-and-seven-little-kids-grimm.html">The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids</a></div><div>* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/06/grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-story-time.html">Faithful John</a></div><div>* <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-king-of-golden-mountain-grimm.html">The King of the Golden Mountain</a><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/06/grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-story-time.html"><br /></a><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-grimm-brothers-fairy-tales-story.html">From that previous collection</a>, for the time being, I've decided not to use "<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-cat-and-mouse-living-together-grimm.html">A Cat and a Mouse Living Together</a>" (the ending is too predictable), and also "<a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-boy-who-wanted-to-learn-how-to.html">The Boy Who Wanted to Learn How to Shudder</a>" (the story is too long, and too unpredictable)</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-40131821341730297602024-03-03T10:50:00.005-05:002024-03-03T12:14:26.396-05:00<div><a href="https://youtu.be/Sr56pfVXEFA">Weekly Reading Vlog 147: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield p.1-142, Joshua 9-19</a></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; 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text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2005/05/book-review-index.html">Books</a> (154 pages this week--<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/reading-goals-200-pages-week.html">the goal is 200 pages</a>)</b></div></div></div><div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-men-like-gods-by-h.html">Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells </a> (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/finished-men-like-gods-by-h.html">finished</a>)(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/men-like-gods-by-hg-wells-book-review.html">reviewed</a>)</div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html">Tides of War by Steven Pressfield </a>p.1-142 (142 pages)</div><div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/01/started-joshua-this-is-reread.html">Joshua </a>p.240-252 (Joshua 9-19) (From <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-bible-this-will-be-mostly-re-read.html">The Bible</a>) (12 pages)</div></div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/comic-books-and-graphic-novels-index.html">Comic Books</a> (Comic Books don't count towards weekly page counts)</b></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-superman-reign-of-supermen-this.html">Superman: Reign of the Supermen</a> No page numbers on this edition, but from slightly over halfway to the end (<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/blog-post_29.html">finished</a>)(<a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/superman-reign-of-supermen-book-review.html">reviewed</a>)</div><div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2003/09/podcasts-youtube-series-radio-shows-etc.html">Podcasts</a></b>: </div></div></div><div><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-revolutions-season-9-mexican.html">Revolutions Season 9: The Mexican Revolution</a> <b>From </b>9.09- The Tiger <b>To: Finished 1st Listening. Started 2nd Listening</b> 9.02- The Cry of Dolores</div><div><b><a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/12/will-2024-be-year-i-finally-finish.html">Duolingo</a>: </b></div><div><b>From</b>:<b> </b>Section 2, Unit 8, Level 4, Lesson Legendary <b>To: </b>Section 2, Unit 9, Level 2, Lesson 2 (My Duolingo profile is <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JoelSwagman">here</a>. <a href="https://quizlet.com/582275205/duolingo-vocabulary-vietnamese-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt">Here is the quizlet I use to practice all of the vocabulary I've learned in Duolingo</a>, and<a href="https://quizlet.com/860293957/more-duolingo-flash-cards/?i=fo89z&x=1jqt"> here is a smaller quizlet I use to consolidate the new or difficult vocabulary</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Videos from this week:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/men-like-gods-by-hg-wells-book-review.html">Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/0Gkl_RrRoNM">https://youtu.be/0Gkl_RrRoNM</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/started-tides-of-war-by-steven.html">Starting: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/ytq-EayEAH8">https://youtu.be/ytq-EayEAH8</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/path-to-war-movie-review.html">Path to War: Movie Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/N5x2JYHeDLU">https://youtu.be/N5x2JYHeDLU</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/charade-movie-review.html">Charade: Movie Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/n3ZKTfUhBj8">https://youtu.be/n3ZKTfUhBj8</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/superman-reign-of-supermen-book-review.html">Superman: Reign of the Supermen: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/r9t2fM_9tXM">https://youtu.be/r9t2fM_9tXM</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/berkeley-in-sixties-movie-review.html">Berkeley in the Sixties: Movie Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/rKDcnFh9sUE">https://youtu.be/rKDcnFh9sUE</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/young-indiana-jones-and-curse-of-jackal.html">Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal (TV Movie): Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/C4ac0jxqggM">https://youtu.be/C4ac0jxqggM</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/esl-listening-poems.html">Rats Building Bicycles by ChatGPT: ESL Listening Poems</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/cOYK5uGBjtc">https://youtu.be/cOYK5uGBjtc</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/rats-building-bicycles-and-then.html">Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work by ChatGPT</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/YBa_Zd4nqyc">https://youtu.be/YBa_Zd4nqyc</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/rats-building-bicycles-and-then_1.html">Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/ubY7Ha8BQOc">https://youtu.be/ubY7Ha8BQOc</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/rats-building-bicycles-and-then_75.html">Rats building bicycles, becoming disillusioned, becoming pirates, and then finally finding religion</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/HRkAA4rVO2Y">https://youtu.be/HRkAA4rVO2Y</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/03/rats-building-bicycles-and-then_32.html">Rats build bicycles, become disillusioned, become pirates, find religion, and then become atheists</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/TZZIj0Shk0w">https://youtu.be/TZZIj0Shk0w</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Other Videos Mentioned:</div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2020/09/mrs-frisby-and-rats-of-nimh-by-robert-c.html">Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien: Book Review</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/mLlEd5RnLCE">https://youtu.be/mLlEd5RnLCE</a></div><div>* <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/lenin-is-turned-into-frog-in-1917-by.html">Lenin is Turned Into a Frog in 1917 by ChatGPT: ESL Listening Poems</a>: <a href="https://youtu.be/SLRQ5zdlQAI">https://youtu.be/SLRQ5zdlQAI</a></div><div><br /></div><div>I describe my experience with ChatGPT in this blogpost here: <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/playing-around-with-chatgpt.html">https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2024/02/playing-around-with-chatgpt.html</a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div>For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see <a href="http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2021/03/weekly-reading-vlog-1-don-quixote-p.html">HERE</a>.</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940197.post-6932690430429162232024-03-02T07:37:00.003-05:002024-03-02T07:37:31.826-05:00Here is a link to a <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/05/really-useful-website-for-tesol.html">Kahoot </a>on <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2016/12/prepositions.html">prepositions </a>and <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/09/prepositional-phrases.html">prepositional phrases</a> that I found useful for my class: <a href="https://create.kahoot.it/details/f9590dcd-764f-4962-8b56-b3f237b9552c">Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases</a> by <a href="https://create.kahoot.it/profiles/39cccf50-391a-4680-b96f-10d0004b6f79">MrsCopple</a>.<div>In my classroom, I used this when I discovered (during a lesson on a completely separate grammar point) that my students did not know what prepositions or prepositional phrases were.</div><div>Upon discovering this, first I showed my students <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2017/11/prepositions-sing-along-song-hd-version.html">The Preposition Sing Along Song</a>, then I did<a href="https://create.kahoot.it/details/f9590dcd-764f-4962-8b56-b3f237b9552c"> the Kahoot quiz linked to above</a>, and finally we did some practice <a href="https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2023/09/diagramming-prepositional-phrases.html">Diagramming Prepositional Phrases</a>. I found these activities to be a successful lesson.</div>Joel Swagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com0