Attention: If you like, click here for a video of the 8.3 town hall visit with Governor Quinn!
Also, click here for Governor Quinn's Twitter feed about his visit to Julian.
For the seventh grade bag of websites, click here!
I have decided that this is going to be my last blog entry for the year. We teach all the way through, ensuring that each day is of instructional merit. Yet, I will have this as my last blog entry and hope that your students, our emerging scholars, will let you know of all the intellectually enriching elements in which we will engage in that last week.
Also, click here for Governor Quinn's Twitter feed about his visit to Julian.
For the seventh grade bag of websites, click here!
I have decided that this is going to be my last blog entry for the year. We teach all the way through, ensuring that each day is of instructional merit. Yet, I will have this as my last blog entry and hope that your students, our emerging scholars, will let you know of all the intellectually enriching elements in which we will engage in that last week.
I want to thank all of the students for a journey that has featured different benchmarks for success. Some have been able to embrace the first steps taken towards scholarship. Others have begun to understand the arduous demands that are needed to even remotely compete on such a level. I can honestly say that each and every one of the students I have worked with this year has changed in some way, pivoting towards this ideal, one that guides our vessels amidst turbulent seas. For this, I can only bow my head and offer gratitude.
Seventh graders will engage in exploratory activities regarding the curriculum and the year this year. This will take the form of answering reflective questions Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday, we will examine different video clips and examine the presence of American History in these clips. For the eighth graders, we will examine short stories by Gordimer, Kurieshi, LeGuin, and Tolstoy this week. We will examine how the concept of "strange passengers" is both within us and outside of us. Our world consists of "strange passengers," individuals who we don't choose to sit next nor who choose to sit next to us. We simply board our vessels of voyage and sit next to them. It is up to us whether or not we can make peace with the "strangeness" they possess and we possess in ourselves.
8.3 students can find their finalized Social Studies grades updated as of Monday, while 7.3 students will have their grades finalized before the end of Memorial Day weekend.
8.3 students can find their finalized Social Studies grades updated as of Monday, while 7.3 students will have their grades finalized before the end of Memorial Day weekend.
For the seventh graders, I wish a great summer filled with intellectual growth and curiosity as the next and final chapter in their Julian careers remains to be the page on which they will write. For the eighth graders, I wish nothing but my best as they enter the great horizon of high school. I wish them nothing but the best as they strive to embrace the idea that the fight goes on, the cause endures, and the dream shall never die. It has been an honor to be a momentary stop along your causeway of consciousness and being in the world. I have been privileged to work with you and to both teach you and learn from you. I can only hope that you embrace the hope and faith for good that lies within you. As Sri Raghavendra says, "Faith can revive the dead while doubt can cause great harm." To the eighth graders, I hope you possess faith in yourself and do not doubt what great intellectual strides you can take. Thank you all for being you. I will think of all of you, seventh and eighth, frequently this summer as I travel around India.
All best.
Mr. Kannan
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