The news out of the Bahamas is growing more grim. The death toll from Hurricane Dorian is up to 30, but hundreds of people are still missing. So, more body bags and coolers are being brought in. And officials are warning people to prepare for "unimaginable information" on the death toll. There is some good news, though. The US Coast Guard has rescued 201 people, while a British naval ship is giving out food and water and clearing debris from streets.
Family time
Forget "Pink Friday." Nicki Minaj fans are feeling blue after the rapper and singer said she's retiring to "have my family."
Due for everyone by the close of class today: Yesterday's text-based responses the article "The Fourth Estate as the Final Check". Thank you to all of those who already turned this in.
Due: Thursday, September 12 signed criteria sheet homework grade
In class: Proust Questionnaire.
If you have turned in all the paperwork, you will be collecting your chromebook today.
In the meantime, begin completing the Proust Questionaire. I hope that this will be the last item we complete on hard copy. (class handout/ copy below).
I would like to try something a bit more creative in the getting-to-know-you category. Below you will see The Proust Questionnaire.
Please, take your time. Your responses should be fluid and grammatically correct. However, they may be witty and imaginative. Tasty bits might be shared on the blog. Please complete on a separate sheet of paper, making sure your responses can stand independently, so that anyone may infer the question. Thank you.
The Proust Questionnaire
Marcel Proust 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French noelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time- earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. In the back pages of Vanity Fair magazine each month, readers find The Proust Questionnaire, a series of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. As a way of getting to know you, and by extension each other, please read and respond to the following questions. They are from a party game the young Proust played at the age of 13. As with this writer, the questions give insight into character and life beliefs. Take your time and reflect. These should not be extended responses, but make them full sentences. Humor and wit are welcomed.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is your greatest extravagance?
4. What is your current state of mind?
5. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
6. On what occasion do you lie?
7. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
8. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Man?
9. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
10. When and where were you happiest?
11. Which talent would you most like to have?
12. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
13. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
14. What is your most treasured possession?
15. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
16. What do you most value in your friends?
17. What historical figure do you most identify with?
18. What is your favorite hero of fiction?
19. What is it that you most dislike?
20. How would you like to die?
Mr. B showed me some cool responses to the questionnaire written my singer David Bowie. My favorite "famous response" is...
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Which living person do you most despise?
I have a rule of keeping all negatives out of my life, so if there was someone I was going to despise, I wouldn’t waste the energy on them – they disappear. I remember a philosopher said to me once, “You should only hate people you love. The rest of them are not worth the energy.”
-Sir Michael Caine, Actor
What do you think? Do we only truly hate people we love?
Have a wonderful weekend-Mrs. Sweet