tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33439245656609917792024-03-05T12:24:09.681-05:00 bluebirdprincessRachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.comBlogger451125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-76283662659999378802017-08-02T17:37:00.002-04:002017-08-02T17:37:46.128-04:00SARAH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And, this, ladies and gentlemen, is dance with purpose . . . </div>
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<br />Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-48686224645273094482017-01-14T15:26:00.001-05:002017-01-14T15:28:49.653-05:00letter without postmark Dear Court Rooms of America,<br />
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This is how William Penn outlines the proceeding of court for his "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America." Perhaps we could take a few notes. . . </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"All pleadings, processes, and records in courts shall be short, and in English, and in an ordinary and plain Character, that they may be understood, and Justice speedily administered" (35). </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-indent: 32px;">Penn, William. "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America." <i>For the Record: A Documentary History </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-indent: 32px;"><i>of </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-indent: 32px;"><i>America,</i> vol. 1, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-indent: 32px;"> edited by David E. Shi and Holly A. Mayer, W.W. Norton and Company, 2016, 32-37. </span>Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-55544135579240282822017-01-10T13:25:00.001-05:002017-01-14T15:12:43.839-05:00longing<div style="text-align: center;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-310cc2bf-8986-7d9c-bf43-1dd70c2908bc"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">" (Lewis, "Weight of Glory"). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: 32px;">Lewis, C. S. "The Weight of Glory." <i>Mark Verber's Links to Christian Information</i>.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> http://www.verber.com/mark/xian/weight-of-glory.pdf</span></div>
Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-62982993411917651912016-12-18T10:53:00.000-05:002016-12-18T10:53:09.821-05:00"Rachel was to become a very good schoolteacher and then to marry George Paden who would become an official in the Union National Bank of Pittsburgh . . . Great Aunt Racher started a 'Dame's School' for primary education, to which not only [Edith Schaeffer's] father would go, but also some of his brother and sisters, Aunt Rachel's own daughter Marion Paden, and later some of the grandchildren of the family, as well as 'outside children.' In this school Rachel must have given a fantastically good foundation for the children she taught were later to be higest in their classes in university, and still later, leading doctors and missionaries as well as leaders in other professions . . . Aunt Rachel gave her own daughter a good foundation in her Dame's School, and as language was one of her best subjects, it is not surprising that she went on to be extremely good in Arabic, speaking as well as reading the language. Cousin Marion went to Egypt under the United Presbyterian Board, and continued in girl's school teaching for forty years. . . . <i><span style="font-size: large;">If you think Rachel was 'downtrodden' because her brilliance was limited to offering a very thorough education to a small number of children whom she gave a foundation that is rare in this day -- then, as grandmother would say, 'You have another think coming.' </span>Certainly there have been things worth fighting for, and limitation have been unfair for women, but it is not all 'black and white.' If there were women for whom life was 'hell' in those days of many children, there are also women for whom life is 'hell' today in their places of 'freedom,' as they walk in and out of marriages with multiple divorces, and as they face untold disappointments and discouragements in offices and careers of a diversity of kinds. I'm not saying all women aren't supposed to have careers; Cousin Marion had a very satisfying and fulfilling career in her forty years of outstanding work in Alexandria, Egypt. But, the diversity of the career that the artwork of raising children and creating a continuity of family holds forth, is something that musn't be forgotten as we look at the The Tapestry of history" (Schaeffer 70-72). </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Schaeffer, Edith. <i>The Tapestry: The Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer</i>. World Books, 1984. </span>Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-34539497428760300042016-12-02T11:20:00.001-05:002016-12-02T11:20:37.638-05:00<div style="text-align: center; text-indent: 32px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">" 'H</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">ow canst thou be such a hypocrite,' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">said I, even audibly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">'to pretend to be thankful for a condition which, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">hou wouldest rather pray heartily to be delivered from?' ”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(Defoe 97). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Thank you, Lord, for a job which often directs my heart back to Yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Defoe, Daniel. <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>. Barnes and Nobel Classics, 2003. </span></span></div>
Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-23123174097954066352016-11-30T18:38:00.000-05:002016-11-30T18:38:38.427-05:00unpurpose(ful)ly incorrectFor the first time today, I learned that <i>purposefully </i>and <i>purposely </i>are not, in fact, the same word.<br />
. . . And, of course, I did not learn this until I after I (mis)corrected a student's writing on my white board.<br />
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So, after reading <a href="http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/purposely-versus-purposefully" target="_blank">this helpful guide</a> and discussing the topic with my brother, Joel has determined that<br />
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<i>purposefully</i> is for a purpose </div>
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<i>purposely</i> is with a purpose.</div>
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Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-27523031314966718642016-11-27T09:51:00.001-05:002016-11-27T09:51:23.764-05:00"for the best improvement of time" <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"[In chapter four] of [<i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>] the story has now become fully established, and it is a universal pattern in travel stories from Honer's<i> Odyssey</i> and Spencer's <i>Faire Queene</i> to C.S. Lewis' Naria stories and Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. It consists of a predictable back-and-forth movement between journey along the path and temporary rest in a place, usually a house, palace or castle. The rituals of arrival at the beginning and taking leave at the end encircle the stay at the residence. The main actions are (a) refreshment and renewal for the weary traveler and (b) instruction for the traveler but equally for the reader. The latter feature means that the author's didactic purpose is fully evident in these interspersed interludes" (Ryken 29). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ryken, Leland. <i>Bunyan</i></span><i style="background-color: white;">'s The Pilgrim's Progress</i><span style="background-color: white;"><i>.</i> Christian Guides to the Classics,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Crossway, 2014.</span></span>Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-84042209010371217212016-11-26T13:00:00.000-05:002016-11-26T13:00:03.469-05:00perspective <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://soliroma.tumblr.com/post/150964478303/13allerina-sophie-martin" target="_blank">Sophie Martin</a>, of the <a href="https://www.scottishballet.co.uk/about-us/people/dancers" target="_blank">Scottish Ballet</a></td></tr>
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Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-4013641794663137972016-11-25T13:30:00.000-05:002016-11-25T17:56:19.598-05:00unless someone guides me <span style="font-family: inherit;">The Eunuch is so bluntly honest about his need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #363030; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 25.92px; vertical-align: baseline;">And he said, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am so often afraid to be honest with the leaders in my life about my inadequacies. </span></div>
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There are so many situations in which I should just say, "I don't know," "I've never tried," or "I haven't been keeping up with that." But, I care too much about the impression I leave on others to be bluntly honest about my own need . . . </div>
Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-46453857573385727132016-11-24T14:27:00.004-05:002016-11-24T14:27:53.274-05:00Happy Thanksgiving<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Thanksgiving </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- giving thanks in everything -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Ann Voskamp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- Louisa May Alcott</span></div>
Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-67271589066280361782016-10-24T10:30:00.000-04:002016-10-24T10:30:00.176-04:00romantic length tutus are lovely<div style="text-align: center;">
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Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-13483863740783847702016-10-20T11:44:00.001-04:002016-10-20T11:44:55.358-04:00<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">both good and bad poems" </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Tolkein 17). </span></span></h3>
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Plot is not enough to make a poem (or any work of literature for that matter).<br />
Students misunderstand literature when they read <i>Sparknotes</i>.<br />
The structure of the language matters just as much as (if not more than) the structure of the events.<br />
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Tolkein, J. R. R. <i>The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays</i>. Harper Collins, 2007.Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-20666511088222641722016-10-01T15:15:00.000-04:002016-10-01T15:17:31.238-04:00elegance and extension <div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://soliroma.tumblr.com/post/151010361548/katie-boren-instagram" target="_blank">ABT dancer Katie Boren</a><br />
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Also, more beautiful ballerinas can be found <a href="http://bluebirdprincess.blogspot.com/search/label/beautiful%20ballerinas" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-16413460051306559782016-08-12T14:02:00.000-04:002016-08-12T14:02:00.148-04:00fidelityI am reading <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i> for the first time this summer.<br />
I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Journey-Story-Pilgrims-Progress/dp/0802836194/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470874063&sr=8-1&keywords=dangerous+journey+pilgrim%27s+progress" target="_blank">this picture book</a> version many times as a child, but this is my first time encountering the original text as I prepare to teach my students about the text this fall.<br />
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In the first few pages, I have already been struck by the intensity of the allegory.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Now he had not run far from his own door, but his Wife and Children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears and ran on crying,<i> Life! Life! Eternal Life! </i>So he looked not behind him . . ." (Bunyan 15). </span><br />
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I am currently dating a wonderful gentleman, and we are both looking excitedly towards spending the rest of our lives together.<br />
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I want to be a wife and a mother.<br />
These are not bad desires. At least one of them has the very real possibility of coming true in the somewhat near future.<br />
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But, these desires have consumed me before and I fear they are beginning to do so again.<br />
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Christian ran from his spouse and children.<br />
He ran with his fingers in his ears from the relationships for which I deeply long.<br />
He let nothing, not even beautiful human relationships, stand between him and his relentless pursuit of his Savior.<br />
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Oh, how often I let people stand between me and the LORD.<br />
Oh, how often I let my ideas about the future stand between me and the LORD.<br />
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That's the possibly greater problem.<br />
I don't even have these relationships yet.<br />
This husband, these children - they don't exist, yet; and already I am already more faithful to them than I should be.<br />
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My fidelity to the ideas in my head is far too great.<br />
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The more faithful I am to my own head, the less able I am to be present in the reality the LORD has put before me in this exact moment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Jesus sums up common-sense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity" (Chambers, </span>commenting on <a href="http://www.esvbible.org/Matthew+6%3A25-34/" target="_blank">Matthew 6:25</a><span style="font-size: large;">). </span><br />
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I am so guilty of common-sense preparation for the future. <br />
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Oh, LORD, may my fidelity be always anchored in You and never in my own head.<br />
Oh, LORD, may I run hard toward the Celestial City always.<br />
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Bunyan, John.<i> The Pilgrim’s Progress</i>. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2005. Print.<br />
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Chambers, Oswald.<i> My Utmost For His Highest.</i> Ohio: Barbour Publishing, 1963. Print. </div>
<br />Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-49497182550956272512016-08-11T12:21:00.000-04:002016-08-11T12:21:06.294-04:00a letter without postmarkDear Writers of Vehicle Commercials,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are actors fake people? </span><br />
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I understand what you are trying to communicate, but please choose words that more accurately describe what you are trying to say.</div>
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Sincerely,<br />
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a performing artist who would like to be considered fully humanRachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-27491379242989782602016-08-06T10:03:00.002-04:002016-08-11T08:24:51.307-04:00focus changes everything<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-50543976562026706542016-07-23T15:03:00.000-04:002016-07-23T15:03:27.615-04:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"You made all time; You are before all time; and the 'time,' if such we may call it, when there was no time was not time at all. It is therefore true to say that when You had not made anything, there was no time, because time itself was of Your making. And no time is co-eternal with You, because You never change; whereas, if time never changed it would not be time" (Augustine 263). </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Augustine, </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 18.48px;">Aurelius. <i>Confessions.</i> Trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin. London: Penguin Books, 1961. Print. </span></span><br />
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<br />Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-19736081200813893172016-07-13T09:41:00.001-04:002016-08-06T10:05:07.760-04:00listening to literature is good for everyone Well, these two articles basically sum up how I taught last year.<br />
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<a href="https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/three-words-can-save-drowning-first-year-lit-teacher" target="_blank">Three Words Can Save the Drowning First Year Lit Teacher</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/stop-assigning-reading-homework" target="_blank">Stop Assigning Reading Homework </a><br />
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It's really quite relieving to know that someone recommends all of this. And, therefore, maybe, as I prepare for this second year, I don't need to get as far away from doing things this way as I thought. Thank you Lord for timely advice as I sit in the middle of a large stack of books that I know I will not finish reading before September.<br />
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<br />Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-26037008652839194782015-12-28T14:24:00.000-05:002015-12-28T14:24:57.478-05:00When you're spending your Christmas break sitting in a library planning the next unit of Medieval history for your students while listening to Medieval instrumental music <i>and</i> you're actually enjoying doing all of this, you have to realize that you were probably always meant to be a teacher . ..Rachel Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384124908673559943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3343924565660991779.post-40417754543567267642015-11-03T13:57:00.002-05:002015-11-03T13:58:05.790-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>"The lines [of Beowulf] do not go according to a tune. They are founded on a balance; an opposition between two halves of roughly equivalent phonetic weight, and significant content, which are more often rhythmically contrasted than similar. They are more like masonry than music" (30). </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tolkien, J. R. R. "The Monsters and the Critics." <i>The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays</i>. London: Harper Collins, 2006. Print.</span><br />
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And, I somehow managed to get all of the paperwork figured out and I think my students actually enjoyed (at least parts of) the trip. And, no one got hurt or lost. So, I'd say everything went okay. </div>
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Also, my grandma packed my lunch and it was quite yummy. </div>
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I like this middle world where I'm both a granddaughter and a teacher. </div>
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