Mr. G's Internet Inventory

WATCH AND VOTE!!

2012-01-12T09:17:00.000-08:00

1. Click on the link to our video and rate away!

2. For kicks, feel free to watch other videos. You will see, there's no comparison. CTA's Film Studies work is the best.

The Best Novels of the Last 100 Years

2011-12-30T13:38:00.000-08:00

What are the great America novels of the last hundred years? In a new monthly series, novelist Nathaniel Rich sets out to find the forgotten, justly praised, and surprisingly timely.

Divergent Thinking, redux

2011-09-01T19:06:00.000-07:00

For those Inventory fans, we posted this last year. Just watched it again. It's worth seeing, at least twice.

SUMMER READING

2011-06-02T08:14:00.000-07:00

What should I read this summer? In my view, nothing heavy. Stay off the theory. Leave Levi-Strauss on the shelf. Ulysses can wait. How about one of those books that you start and carry with you, on the train, on the plane, in the car, by the pool. A book that you take with you across the room because you can't put it down. Here are the summer reading assignments for summer 2011:

Advanced Placement Language and Composition

10th Grade American Literature

8th Grade Language Arts

Also check out the class blogs for hints about the assignments, or for further readings.

Happy Summer!

is school obsolete?

2011-05-23T12:12:00.001-07:00

It's the absolute wrong thing to demand one right answer.

2011-04-19T09:04:00.000-07:00

Advanced Placement Language and Composition 2011-2012

2011-03-21T09:55:00.000-07:00

To Qualify for Advanced Placement Language and Composition 2011-2012, please write the essay from the 2010 AP Comp Test.

Please submit your essay to Mr. Guinan by April 14.

What is Play?

2011-03-02T18:40:00.001-08:00

Playing to Learn? on Prezi

Tough Year for Seniors?

2011-02-25T07:32:00.001-08:00

The Daily Beast reports 2011 is a tough year for college applicants.

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2011-02-10T13:21:00.001-08:00

2011-01-23T19:59:00.001-08:00

Divergent Thinking!

2011-01-20T18:42:00.000-08:00

Marcel the Shell

2011-01-13T18:30:00.001-08:00

2011-01-11T13:13:00.001-08:00

It's Showtime!

2010-12-04T13:23:00.000-08:00

Jewish Cities

2010-12-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

Jewish Cities

video games and education

2010-11-14T08:44:00.001-08:00

the power of cartoons

2010-11-07T19:03:00.001-08:00

Advanced Placement

2010-10-16T08:04:00.000-07:00

A short documentary considering the meaning of AP courses today:

incredible

2010-09-15T10:27:00.000-07:00

Girl, 15, aces ACT on first try
'I just took it as practice'

It was supposed to be just a practice. But an Oklahoma high school freshman managed to ace one the nation's toughest exams on her first try.

Jolee Potts, only 15 years old, earned a perfect score on the ACT.

A Palindrome

2010-09-09T08:15:00.001-07:00

Of course, the palindrome is defined as a word spelled the same forwards and backwards. Thanks, Mrs. Delman for finding this interesting interpretation.

September, The First Day of School

2010-08-02T11:05:00.000-07:00

A Poem by Howard Nemerov

My child and I hold hands on the way to school,
And when I leave him at the first-grade door
He cries a little but is brave; he does
Let go. My selfish tears remind me how
I cried before that door a life ago.
I may have had a hard time letting go.

Each fall the children must endure together
What every child also endures alone:
Learning the alphabet, the integers,
Three dozen bits and pieces of a stuff
So arbitrary, so peremptory,
That worlds invisible and visible

Bow down before it, as in Joseph's dream
The sheaves bowed down and then the stars bowed down
Before the dreaming of a little boy.
That dream got him such hatred of his brothers
As cost the greater part of life to mend,
And yet great kindness came of it in the end.

II

A school is where they grind the grain of thought,
And grind the children who must mind the thought.
It may be those two grindings are but one,
As from the alphabet come Shakespeare's Plays,
As from the integers comes Euler's Law,
As from the whole, inseparably, the lives,

The shrunken lives that have not been set free
By law or by poetic fantasy.
But may they be. My child has disappeared
Behind the schoolroom door. And should I live
To see his coming forth, a life away,
I know my hope, but do not know its form

Nor hope to know it. May the fathers he finds
Among his teachers have a care of him
More than his father could. How that will look
I do not know, I do not need to know.
Even our tears belong to ritual.
But may great kindness come of it in the end.

The Power of Storytelling

2010-07-19T19:08:00.000-07:00

Another Ted Talk entry: for all students of writing and literature: the necessity and the power of storytelling.

Summer Reading!

2010-05-19T09:55:00.000-07:00

Please see the below links for your summer reading titles and assignments!

8th Grade Language Arts

English 10 American Literature

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition

2010-03-11T18:50:00.000-08:00

Universals, no. Variability, yes

2010-02-10T06:09:00.000-08:00

I clung to Gladwell's insight as to the effect of sampling and reacting, as opposed to the presentation of quality choices. But there's more to discuss: embracing variability.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

2010-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:00

Perhaps I was ready to drop this post into film studies, but then it might get lost in the lonely planets of Guinan's unvisited bloggeries. Everyone should watch this. The reasons it went viral are obvious--"how did they DO that?" we ask even as it plays before our eyes. But another quality arises: the pure, sweet joy of adolescent enthusiasm. It is a document of ebullience, of unbridled feeling, proof of film's beauty. Try to watch it only once.

To read more about it, check the Monday's Dispatch story.

Six Degrees of Separation

2009-12-09T13:04:00.000-08:00

Way to go, film studies!

CTA audio slideshows

2009-12-07T14:45:00.000-08:00

check out this and all the rest of the audio slideshows, on the film studies page

Publish Your Documents Online

2009-11-06T07:09:00.000-08:00

Here's how to make a link to your documents.

Today's Reading

2009-11-01T11:41:00.000-08:00

Billy Collins, the former poet Laureate, is always a favorite. At first reading, I only saw Collins's play with imagery, simple, beautiful. Hearing him read the poem, you hear more of the mockery of the old forms.

The Columbus Favorite Poem Project

2009-10-31T13:41:00.000-07:00

Check out the work of our stalwart juniors in the Columbus Foundation funded fave poem project. Click and watch the work of Tal, Sam, and Raiford interviewing Columbus notables State Senator Goodman, OSU instructor Bob Eckhart, and Dispatch Editor Ray Stein. Then see more in Parts One and Three.

The Columbus Favorite Poem Project

The Rundown

2009-10-31T08:01:00.000-07:00

Teachers and students, if you have a few minutes, check out the lecture on incentives. The application to what WE do is clear. Favor autonomy, mastery and purpose. Avoid incentives. File under why CEO's make gazillions of dollars for running their corporations into the ground, or methods of facing our challenge to get the best performance from our school and our students and our teachers.