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June 27, 2008

Anglo-American Literary History Group Presentation Sked

Sked for Bocobo

TOPIC	GROUP	PRESENT ON
1. Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon Period) (mid-5th Century to 1100) up to Middle English Period (1100-1500)	7	Jul 01 (Tue)
2. Renaissance Period (1550-1660)	1	Jul 01 (Tue)
3. Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)	2	Jul 01 (Tue)
4. Romantic Period (1798-1837)	8	Jul 01 (Tue)
5. Victorian Period (1837 - 1901)	4	Jul 03 (Thu)
6. Edwardian Age (1901-1910) and Georgian Age (1910-1936)	11	Jul 03 (Thu)
7. Pre-colonial Period (before 1607) up to Colonial Period (1607-1765)	9	Jul 08 (Tue)
8. Revolutionary Period (1765-1790) up to Early National Period (Federalist Age, 1790-1828)	5	Jul 08 (Tue)
9. Romantic Period (Age of Transcendentalism) (1828-1865)	6	Jul 10 (Thu)
10. Realistic Period (1865-1900)	3	Jul 10 (Thu)
11. Naturalistic Period (1900-1914)	10	Jul 10 (Thu)

Sked for Sison

TOPIC	GROUP	PRESENT ON
1. Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon Period) (mid-5th Century to 1100) up to Middle English Period (1100-1500)	1	Jul 01 (Tue)
2. Renaissance Period (1550-1660)	6	Jul 01 (Tue)
3. Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)	7	Jul 02 (Wed)
4. Romantic Period (1798-1837)	11	Jul 02 (Wed)
5. Victorian Period (1837 - 1901)	9	Jul 03 (Thu)
6. Edwardian Age (1901-1910) and Georgian Age (1910-1936)	10	Jul 03 (Thu)
7. Pre-colonial Period (before 1607) up to Colonial Period (1607-1765)	2	Jul 09 (Wed)
8. Revolutionary Period (1765-1790) up to Early National Period (Federalist Age, 1790-1828)	4	Jul 09 (Wed)
9. Romantic Period (Age of Transcendentalism) (1828-1865)	8	Jul 10 (Thu)
10. Realistic Period (1865-1900)	3	Jul 10 (Thu)
11. Naturalistic Period (1900-1914)	5	Jul 10 (Thu)

March 26, 2007

Survey of the Blog Project's Effectiveness

How effective is the blog project? Help your teacher find out by answering the online survey available at http://www.saksaksinagol.com/surveys/menu.php. Please be honest with your answers. Although your responses will not affect your blog project grade in any way, your non-participation in the online survey will result in my not signing your clearance form.

Login Instructions

Your username is your family name and the initial(s) of your first name, all in lowercase and with no spaces in between. For example, Elmer Montejo's username would be montejoe; Juan Antonio de la Cruz's would be delacruzja; Norren-mae Cañete's would be canetenm .
Your temporary password is elmermontejo.
IMPORTANT: You can take the survey only once. Once you submit your responses, you cannot retake the survey anymore or change your responses. So, reflect on your answers before clicking on the Submit button.

February 11, 2007

Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy"

Read Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy." This should bring back—a bit, I hope—some rationality into our hyped celebration of Valentines Day.

January 31, 2007

Login Problems

Some students have reported having trouble logging into their Blogger accounts. The following pages may provide some help or explanation:

January 28, 2007

Assigned Topics

NOTE: This page will be updated regularly.

Freshies

January 15 - January 21 — none

January 22 - January 28 — none

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Teachers and Teaching (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Running a School (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in non-teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — On Being Taught by Students (NOTE: This topic is for everyone else.)

February 5 - February 12 — What the Stars and the Sky Tell Me About Life

February 13 - February 19 — A Love Affair with M/V Doulos and Books

Sophies

January 15 - January 21 — none

January 22 - January 28 — none

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Teachers and Teaching (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Running a School (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in non-teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — On Being Taught by Students (NOTE: This topic is for everyone else.)

February 5 - February 12 — What a UP Student Is Not (NOTE: We're used to defining or describing things in the positive. This time, let's try defining or describing a student in the negative.)

February 13 - February 19 — (NOTE: Two required entries for this week.)

Read Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy" and write a summary. Your summary will count as one entry. The title of your summary should be "A Summary of Max Schulman's "Love Is a Fallacy"".
Write a 500-word reaction to Max Schulman's short story. This will count as another entry.

Seniors

January 15 - January 21 — none

January 22 - January 28 — The Problem with Men/Women Is That...

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Teachers and Teaching (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — Reflections on Running a School (NOTE: This topic is for those who have been accepted in non-teaching posts for the Know Your School Day.)

January 29 - February 4 — On Being Taught by Students (NOTE: This topic is for everyone else.)

February 5 - February 12 —
(Read and react to the following two-stanza poem by Sara Teasdale. Pick your own title, but make sure your entry complies with the 500-word minimum.)

The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

-- Sara Teasdale

February 13 - February 19 — (NOTE: THREE required topics for this week. The third one will be announced/posted within the week, after our Valentines Day activity.)

How I Want to Be Remembered After I Leave High School
Love: An Act of the Will, Not of the Heart

January 27, 2007

FAQ: Frequently Answered Questions

Last updated on February 4, 2007

Why won't Blogger let me log into my account?

Before you become paranoid about being hacked, attacked by terrorists, or whatever, please take a look at the following pages and see if your problem has a solution:

The 500-word-and-5-entries-weekly minimum requirement is too much!

That's not a question.

Okay, okay. How do you suppose I could comply with the 500-word-and-5-entries-weekly minimum requirement for the blog project?

Stop wasting online time on online gaming, Friendster, or idle chatting on IRC, Yahoo!, or MSN. Instead, write your blog entries. A suggestion that has always worked among my other students: compose your drafts daily (write them on paper) and upload them to your blog over the weekend. Typing and editing your posts online shouldn't take you more than an hour or so.
You may even type and edit your drafts at LEADER.net.

How do I count the number of words in a post I'm about to publish on my blog?

Try the online word counter at WordCountTool.com. Copy the text from your entry onto the Word Count Tool form, then click Submit. You can also try using the word counting function of your word processor (most word processors have the function).

But, Sir! Renting computers in Internet cafes is very expensive. We come from poor families. What should I do?

Seriously, this is a very sensitive issue. For some families, 15 pesos is expensive. For most others, it is affordable. But, I trust that you are creative enough to find a creative solution. I'm sure you've already thought of a solution, but, according to Einstein, "If there's a better solution, find it."
A handful of students have shared to me their experiences in resolving this issue. Some have asked for help from their classmates who have computers at home. Some have taken up my suggestion (writing daily drafts and uploading during weekends). Some have chosen to go to cafes with faster Internet bandwidth—small bandwidth translates to longer wait periods for uploading and downloading, and, therefore, higher rental.

How can I avoid plagiarism in my posts?

If you have to quote text from a source, enclose the quoted text in double quotation marks and cite the author, title of the work, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, and the pages on which the quoted text appears. Do not quote any source without attribution; that is, do not quote anything without mentioning the source.
The simplest way to avoid plagiarism, however, is to write only original blog entries.

What will happen to me if I post entries that I copied from elsewhere?

I will recommend you for immediate expulsion. The University of the Philippines upholds academic honesty and integrity. Plagiarism is one of the high crimes that UP punishes with immediate expulsion.

Duh! Are you that smart enough to detect that I plagiarized my entries?

Computer forensics is not a science exclusive to forensic scientists. If I suspect plagiarism in any of your works, I might conduct comparative analysis of the suspected entry and your other previous writing outputs.

You have not assigned a topic to write about for this week. Do I still need to write 5 entries for this week, or just 4 entries?

Just 4 entries. But, if you write all 5 (or, maybe more than that), I won't mind. If a topic has not been assigned, you still need to post entries to your blog.

When is the deadline for our entries?

The deadliest deadline for the blog project is some time before the end of the school year. The weekly cut-off is every Monday, as it is on this day that I will collect all new entries that you posted for the week.

I have posted only 3 entries for last week. Will I get a failing grade?

YES! Kidding. Seriously, you will not get point deductions for failing to post 5 entries for any particular week. But, if at the end of the semester your blog does not reach the required number of total entries, you will get point deductions.
If, for example, you posted only 3 entries this week, you can still make up for the other two entries by writing 7 entries next week.

I have some questions about how to use Blogger. To whom should I direct my questions?

Visit the Blogger Help pages to check if your issue is addressed there. Or, join the Blogger Help Group and post your Blogger-related questions there.

Sir, you're so cool!

That's not a question. Next question, please.

I have a question about these questions.

That still isn't a question. But, do send your questions to me by e-mail.

January 20, 2007

List of Bloggers

Is your name here?

Freshies

Bartlett & Villamor

Sophies

Benton & Palma

Seniors

Gonzalez & Tan