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April 26, 2007
Airstream Bambi
Meta-Free-Phor-All on Colbert
April 17, 2007
On Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie links: http://del.icio.us/dlackey/Sherman_Alexie
April 16, 2007
Poems That Changed History
Minute Man National Historical Park
Bill Clinton reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn"
The USS CONSTITUTION and The Poem That Saved Old Ironsides
The Paul Revere House and Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"
April 15, 2007
Independent Novel - Speech and Essay
Choose a Contemporary American novel. After reading your novel, prepare a 5-7 minute speech and 500-word essay that include the following:
Speech: Due April 23
1. Introduction
2. Oral reading - one to two page reading from novel including introductory or concluding explanation of context.
3. Author background - include reference to at least one critical source or review.
4. Your personal reaction/opinion/response to the novel.
5. Topic outline
Essay: Due April 30
1. Author background - include quotation from at least one critical source or review.
2. Conflict Analysis - refer to specific examples from your novel.
3. Theme - "Sometimes in life . . ."
4. 3-5 quotes from novel to illustrate conflict and theme.
5. Reaction/Opinion/Response
6. Works cited of primary and secondary sources.
7. Submit paper w/works cited to Turnitin.com
Independent Novel speeches and Rubric
The Big Read
Contemporary American Novels Summaries
Other Recommended Reading Lists
My Reading Life - Mrs. Lackey's Reading Blog
Reader's Bill of Rights
- The right not to read.
- The right to skip pages.
- The right to not finish.
- The right to reread.
- The right to read anything.
- The right to escapism.
- The right to read anywhere.
- The right to browse.
- The right to read out loud.
- The right to not defend your tastes.
From Better Than Life, 1999, Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers
Stranger Than Fiction: Dustin Hoffman Interview
Mobile Madness
April 14, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut In These Times 1922-2007
I'm running out of living heroes - ". . . so it goes."
Photos by his wife, Jill Krementz
Video: Kurt Vonnegut on the Daily Show and on YouTube
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
By A. O. SCOTT
Kurt Vonnegut
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
Vonnegut Interview
The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 64
April 08, 2007
Cool Minis
April 07, 2007
Hot Sauce Sites
April 05, 2007
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Galleries
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Galleries
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
On copyright, CDs and hoodies
. . . the fashion industry can survive without intellectual property protection because of two interacting factors that they refer to as “induced obsolescence” and “anchoring.”
Why That Hoodie Your Son Wears Isn’t Trademarked
By HAL R. VARIAN
April 5, 2007
You’ll still have a hard time finding vinyl 45s or their modern counterpart, CD singles, in record stores. . . . The album, or collection of songs — the de facto way to buy pop music for the last 40 years — is suddenly looking old-fashioned. And the record store itself is going the way of the shoehorn.
Spinning Into Oblivion
By TONY SACHS and SAL NUNZIATO
April 5, 2007
The music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay $3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the Internet.
Record Industry Demands $3,000 From 50 Ohio University Students
FOX News
March 12, 2007
MediaSentry, a copyright protection service, is monitoring peer-to-peer file-sharing networks and providing user information to record companies. Eighty Ohio University students received pre-litigation settlement letters this week from a law firm affiliated with the Recording Industry Association of America, which has been leading the charge against illegal file sharing since online bulletin boards were used to share music in the early 90s.
Company tracks down file-sharers
OU Post
March 9, 2007
Plenty of sharing is going on at Ohio University these days, but not the kind students' mothers taught them. . . . The Recording Industry Association of America has notified the school that since the beginning of the year, 1,287 students have illegally accessed music. The second-highest number was at Purdue University, which has been sent 1,068 complaints.
Illegal music sharing? OU tops the charts
The Columbus Dispatch
February 22, 2007
KSU rises to top 20 of music industry
Beacon Journal
Feb. 22, 2007
Message to Kent State Community on Illegal Downloading of Copyrighted Materials
Kent State University
November 2004
RIAA Launches New Initiatives Targeting Campus Music Theft
The Recording Industry Association of America
February 28, 2007
Music Theft at 23 Campuses Targeted in Second Wave of New Deterrence Program
The Recording Industry Association of America
March 21, 2007
April 04, 2007
Muddy Waters' Birthday
Read about Muddy Waters' Birthday at Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac
April 02, 2007
Down the Blues Highway
Muddy Waters
The Rolling Stones with Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters Biography
Alan Lomax: Reflections on Anthologized Recordings and Saga of a Folksong Hunter
Robert Johnson BiographyRobert Johnson Notebooks
Crosssroads Lyrics
Clapton version
The Covers Project: Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson - News & Notes
April 01, 2007
National Poetry Month
Two poems by Billy Collins: Forgetfulness and The Dead
Poetry Daily News, Reviews, and Special Features
Last year's National Poetry Month post.