Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

wish xiv had /armscrossed emote =/

They do for Roegadyn or however you spell that. It's the third stance available.

What are you talking about. There is one:



It was added in 2.2 and you do /changepose 2 times to get it. It's on every race too.

=O maybe i should come and play then

That is rather cheap, just make sure you save a good bit, and don't squander it all on beard grooming supplies.

Busting your balls dude, it's OK.

I can't think of a reason I'd ever block you man /brofist.

uhg.. works got my sleep all *** uplately ;/

Amazing game! Borrowed it from a friend when I was in High School. That game is still expensive even if bought used online today. I do have Tales of Destiny 2 though, as well as Lunar 1 and 2.

SOMEONE CALL A SCIENTIST, I CAN'T GET DOWN

Making lesson plans is harrrrrrd... I don't know where I want to go with my Ozymandias lesson. I'm jumping all over the place making references to Firdos square, The City in the Sea by Poe, the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech by Macbeth... and somewhere along the way I need to figure out how to *** them. Son of ***.

Start with the British museum's acquisition of the statue of Ramesses II maybe?

Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. Using current events helps immensely in lessons.

Yeah, that's how I've been trained to teach. Figure out what I want them to learn first before fleshing out the details. Unfortunately, I want them to understand the text and understand that it's a poem about revolution. The question remains however as to how that assessment will look. I want it to be thought-provoking while at the same time easy to access for all of them without needing to use secondary materials. I thought of an exit ticket, but that's just so lackluster and almost bordering into busy work. I did think of a good opening, though. I'll start off by asking them what the tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech is all about, and that'll be a good way to jump into Ozymandias because they have very similar themes. I also want them to be able to analyze the poem themselves and be able to tell me what each line means, so I might do an example of that using City in the Sea before letting them loose onto Ozymandias.

Hmm.

XIV, what the hell is this madness...

Papaya...

Yeah I was thinking it would grab their attention when you tell it like an Indiana Jones type of story.

Huh. I've never heard about this aspect of the poem. I knew Percy was a revolutionary, but I had no idea this poem was spurned by that statue specifically. I wonder if I could link it to Ode on a Grecian Urn...

I believe this would be the book to read then: Treasury of English Sonnets. Ed. from the Original Sources with Notes and Illustrations

It's good because it's disputed between scholars if in fact Shelly was inspired by that statue or not. Like a debate, if you chose to do so.

You could go present day cultural influences too:

Breaking Bad Review: The Empire Stikes Back in "Ozymandias"

The debate I fear might take too much time. As for the Breaking Bad reference, I actually thought about using that, but I feel like that would take too much time to implement, and I personally haven't seen the episode, myself. As for the book you posted earlier, it's very intriguing and I'll snatch it eventually, but I have to do the lesson on Thursday, so I'll probably just keep it out, for now.

I'm kinda liking the idea of letting them analyze the poem themselves in groups before doing a classroom discussion on it.

edit: I also really like the idea of the Saddaam statue as well; that would fit perfectly in it.