Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Prep work for Friday!

Decide on at least three points of interest within your topic that you would like to explore.  What are the issues that have particularly caught your attention?  Are there articles or other resources that support your stance on the topic?  What might you use to illustrate your opinions and explain your topic to a reader?

Once you have identified the three points, start collecting evidence to support them.  Are there quotes that will express what you want?  Maybe there are statistics that back you up.  Perhaps, your point will be supported best by relating a personal story or observation of your own.  Please make sure that you have collected some example to support each point you make.

Be ready with this research for the 5-paragraph workshop on Friday!

Monday, September 23, 2013

Up for discussion... (9/23/2013)

Please take a look at (try the recipe) and discuss the following blog entry from Gastronomeria:

"Saturday, January 23, 2010

A Meal With Haiti in Mind



Often people from less wealthy countries are in a situation where the only meal they get is based on beans and rice. Looking into the nutritional value of those economic meals, we find that they are very well balanced and, as I said before: Balance is everything!
Last night, while thinking about the famine that the people of Haiti must be going through, I cooked a meal that was super economical, easy to prepare and rendidor, a source of bounty. I cooked one bag of black beans, boiled 2 cups of long grain brown rice, fried 2 sweet potatoes cut in the shape of long french fries in an inexpensive blend of soy and olive oil, and fried two thin-sliced plantains. I topped the black beans and brown rice with queso fresco and wedges of avocado and had an island dinner for 4 while Mafusser read to us "Please, Malese", a Haitian trickster folk tale. The leftover beans were used for breakfast the next day.
It is unfortunate that, as I'm typing, thousands of Haitians do not have this economic meal in their stomachs, but we can manage our personal economy by preparing meals like this. Instead of splurging on a fancy dinner, we can help by sending financial support to Haitian relief funds and by praying for their spiritual and material rebuilding. Remain curious my friends!
"

Monday, September 16, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

"Implications of America's New Gilded Age"

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-09-12/implications-americas-new-gilded-age

Please listen to the audio or read the transcript of "Implications of America's New Gilded Age," broadcast by NPR on the Diane Rehm Show on September 12, 2013.  What are the participants talking about?  What are your thoughts about and reactions to the subject?



Use the comments section below to respond.  While I want you to use correct grammar and mechanics, I will be reading for content; please focus on what you understand, think and why.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Getting to know you...






Howdy, Neighbors!
Please use the comments section of this post to get to know one another.  You can talk about just about anything.  We might play a round of "It" or something. 
Have fun! ;)

Still,
The Master of the Universe

Greetings!

Greetings, Minions!

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Sincerely,
The Master of the Universe