[Barbara Miller]

Here is a three-day mini unit on 30 rhetorical devices as seen in images.  It is suitable for 8-11 grade students who have any degree of experience with rhetorical devices. 

This platform does not allow Word Docs to be uploaded, so please see the Google folder if you are interested in editing the Word version of Appendices A and C.

Here is the PPT/Google Slides link.  This allows you to save your own version and edit it if you choose to insert your own images:

  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jp1FYtbMoHyIm2NG_7_hRfiRKaajfp7ntNHrKhbUEEk/copy

 

 

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[Barbara Miller]

Here is a lesson about rhetoric using what I am calling "the rhetoric of monuments."  I hope to create more on this topic.

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[Barbara Miller]

Hi Clay!

Yes, the presentation went well. Thank you. 

Four of the others who were supposed to present were not able to attend, so I had the chance to talk one-on-one to several teachers who were especially interested in China and Taiwan or NCTA.  Having a site nearby at IU really helps sell the study courses!

I've been working hard on my lesson plans before school begins next week and am just wondering where you would like them posted. I may have missed it. On the G Drive in the cities folders?  Here in the forum?   

If a place has not been created, can we create folders for subject areas in the G-Drive?  You could always post them for NCTA wherever you wanted later.

Let me know.  I hope to be finished tomorrow.

All the best,

Barb

[Barbara Miller]

Has anyone else been advised to take meds for malaria?  My county health department advised this, in accordance with the CDC.  

[Barbara Miller]

Unexpectedly, I will be teaching American Literature and Composition to juniors again next year, after a hiatus of three years.  During the past two weeks while I was enjoying a Baltic cruise, I gained a new visual appreciation of the differences between an monarchy and a democracy.  Seeing the gilded opulence of numerouse palaces in Russia and Denmark, only 20 miles or so distance apart to reflect a day's travel time, and how those palaces stood in stark contrast from the lives of the commoners, whose lives and work created the wealth of the royalty, made me rethink how I might introduce my colonial literature unit.  Many of the palaces and sites associated with the Chinese emperors could easily be included in this visual camparison/contrast exercise.

[Barbara Miller]

Thanks so much, Stephanie!

Barb

[Barbara Miller]

I am hoping to communicate with family while I am gone by using WeChat. I understand that it is free, and I suppose I will access it from free wifi in hotel lobbies, etc.  Does anyone have any tips about this social networking site?

[Barbara Miller]

Thanks, Clay!  I will certainly leave space in my luggage for these types of materials that connect the past and the present... and maybe even the future of China's innovations in caring for people.  Perhaps we can learn from this attitude.

[Barbara Miller]

Hi Stephanie,  I'd love to have a copy of your notecards if it is an easy thing for you to prepare.  Having them to review and consult will make my lack of Chinese language expertise less worrisome.

[Barbara Miller]

One of my Chinese-American friends has warned me to only drink soda or beer, as he says the water sold in bottles is often not pure. Will the water in all the hotels be potable?   Should I bring the collapsible potable water container and tablets that created safe drinking water for me in India? I'd rather be safe than sorry.

[Barbara Miller]

In Indiana, there are only a few connections we might make to regional areas that have serve specialized foods. 

The first is the Indiana State Fair in the heart of Indianapolis with its midway that offers regional food delights, including buttered "roastin' ears," breaded tenderloin sandwiches as big as a dinner plate, and the famous grilled cheese sandwich at the Dairy Barn.   

"Old-fashioned" or "sugar" cream pie is native to Indiana and a specialy of Wick's pie shop in tiny Winchester, Indiana.  Some historians believe the recipe was brought to Indiana by the Quakers from North Carolina or the Amish.

Amish country in Northern Indiana also offers visitors plenty of home-cooked comfort foods like pulled pork sandwiches, chicken and noodles with mashed potatoes, and Dutch Apple pie.

Indiana is also known for its popcorn, producing over 500 million pounds of the fluffy stuff annually, but there is no more popcorn served here in my estimation that anywhere else.  

One final Indiana treat for long-time Hoosiers, is the regionally famous persimmon pudding, often served only at special family meals in the fall because finding persimmon trees or pulp is becoming harder and harder in Indiana.  I don't know where it can be purchased.  Most Indiana families who like it follow their own family recipe.

[Barbara Miller]

Students at the International School of Beijing are not only recycling, but they are also designing and fabricating plastic items from the recycled plastic they have collected though a program called "Precious Plastic."  

This movement is designed to help create an environmental conscience in students and is supported by China's recent ban of plastic imports.  The technology faciliator at the school says that because the students at ISB are future leaders in industry and government, the school wants them to think deeply about efforts at sustainability.

In terms of connections, my school has a paper recycling collection program sponsored by our functional academics students. At my school, a few lucky students in Science Club also were able to program a newly aquired 3D printer to fabricate small items that solved problems submitted by teachers.They felt lucky to have access to this small 3D printer that was purchased through a grant.

In contrast to ISB, our school does not have a plastics recycling program, nor are students able to use their own recycled plastics to design and fabricate new objects.  This sounds like a very impressive program.

[Barbara Miller]

I am thinking about which liquids to pack and wondering if we will be checking bags on the international flight.

[Barbara Miller]

Have you seen Going to School with Dad on My Back?

My general education freshmen just finished watching it. It creates plenty of super discussion when paired with Da Chen's memoir China's Son and also promotes a rare appreciation for the education my students have so freely available to them.

[Barbara Miller]

I asked my son for help with this because the specifications are pretty tedious.  I scanned my passport photo, and he then manipulated it to the correct dimmensions in Photoshop.  We had to use a high resolution in the scan, not the default one.  I am hoping it will work. I will print it on photo paper to send, as per Catherine's instructions. Are you adept with PS or another program that might work?

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