Sarah McLachlan's World on Fire

Sarah McLachlan's "World on Fire" 

Check out this link to view the "World on Fire" video we watched in class.  Here are the lyrics and below are the charities McLachlan donated to:

World On Fire by Sarah McLachlan

Hearts are worn in these dark ages

You’re not alone in these stories’ pages

The light has fallen amongst the living and the dying

And I'll try to hold it in 

Yeah I'll try to hold it in

The world's on fire, it's more then I can handle

I'll tap into the water try and bring my share

Try to bring more, more then I can handle 

Bring it to the table 

Bring what I am able

I watch the heavens but I find no calling

Something I can do to change what’s coming

Stay close to me while the sky’s falling

I don’t wanna be left alone don’t wanna be alone

The world's on fire, it's more then I can handle

I'll tap into the water try and bring my share

Try to bring more, more then I can handle 

Bring it to the table 

Bring what I am able

Hearts break hearts mend love still hurts

Visions clash planes crash still there's talk of 

saving souls still the cold's closing in on us

We part the veil on our killer sun

Stray from the straight line on this short run

The more we take the less we become

The fortune of one man means less for some

The world's on fire, it's more then I can handle

I'll tap into the water try and bring my share

Try to bring more, more then I can handle 

Bring it to the table 

Bring what I am able

World On Fire Donation List

Charity	For	Amount	Total  Donation
Caroline for Kibera www.cfk.unc.edu	12 room clinic and land deeds Medicine for 5000 people for 6 months in Nairobi Kenya	• $22,500 • $7,500	$30,000
Comic Relief	Running street children’s hospital in India for a year Feeding 10 street children in Calcutta 3 meals daily for 1 year Schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania Education for 200 students in Ethiopia	• $11,050 • $3,000 • $2,500 • $400	$16,950
CARE USA www.care.org	Building of 6 wells in S.E Asia, Latin America & Africa Helping 100 widows to develop income generating activities in Afghanistan Sending 145 girls to school for one year in Afghanistan Equipping 10 classrooms in Afghanistan Training 10 teachers in Afghanistan	• $10,200 • $5,400 • $5,000 • $480 • $400	$21,480
DORCAS www.dorcas.net	Total running costs of orphanage in South Africa Improving the lives of 10 elderly people in Eastern Europe	• $16,500 • $3,500	$20,000
Engineers Without Borders - Canada www.ewb.ca/en/index.html	To purchase and implement a Multi-Function Platform in Ghana Christy Yaa: scholarships Nana Yaa: scholarships	• $15,000 • $1,000 • $1,000	$17,000
Help the Aged www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb	Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) vehicle providing medical treatments	• $15,000	$15,000
Film Aid www.filmaid.org	Entertainment & escapism for refugees	• $9,500	$9,500
War Child www.warchild.ca/	70 former child soldiers to receive schooling & psychosocial support 7 young people in Sierra Leone to receive job training Education, shelter & food for orphans in Ethiopia	• $3,500 • $1,500 • $500	$5,500
Heifer International www.heifer.org/	1 heifer, 2 goats, 1 buffalo 2 sheep, 4 goats, 2 llamas and 1 heifer A pig Chicks Ducks	• $1,000 • $1,500 • $120 • $20 • $20 • $20	$2680
ITDG www.itdg.org	Scheme which would allow 300 families to remove smoke from their homes 10 smoke hoods 5 bicycle ambulances Nuts & bolts to secure houses of monsoon victims Sudanese irrigation	• $1,925 • $250 • $1,300 • $500 • $1025	$5000
Action Aid www.actionaid.org.uk	To aid and implement programs in Khlaipathar village, Orissa, India to encourage families to be able to stay together 5000lbs potato seeds for planting vegetable gardens	• $5000 • $160	$5160

 TOTAL  $148,270

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All-Star Mentors: Reading Responses to "Ashes" and "Faithful Elephants"

Check out these great examples of reading responses next time you're looking for inspiration for a blog post on fiction!

Danny's post!!

Anya's post!!

Jordyn's post!!

Ines's post!!

Scarlett's post!!

Bern's post!!

Colette's post!!

Mia's post!!

Humayrah's post!!

Blog Due Dates 2019 - 2020

YA Literature articles

Why the Best Books are Written in Blood by Sherman Alexie

How Young Adult Fiction Blossomed with Teenage Culture in America by Michael Cart

YA Literature Too Dark! Why Don't we Ask the Teens? by Karen Jensen

The 'sick-lit' books aimed at children: It's a disturbing phenomenon. Tales of teenage cancer, self-harm and suicide... By Tanith Carey

Teen fiction plots are darker and starker by William Porter

Teens Crave Young Adult Books on Really Dark Topics (and That's OK) by Gayle Forman

I’m A Teenager And I Don’t Like Young Adult Novels. Here’s Why. by Vivian Parker DeRosa

Resources for Faithful Elephants Debate

1) Frederick Litten, MS in Sinology, expert in anime and manga, writes about the inaccuracies between the book and reality:

https://apjjf.org/-Frederick-S--Litten/3225/article.pdf

2) Ariko Kawabata (professor of English literature at Aichi Prefectural University in Nagoya-City, Japan) and Kay E Vandergrift (professor at the School of Communications Information and Library Science at Rutgers University) write about how history can sometimes metamorphize into myth, even when the history is told inaccurately.

What makes a good, thoughtful blog comment?

So now that we've all started posting about our reading, it's time to begin interacting with each other by responding to each other's blog posts.

By going through The Starry Void, you can read your classmates' (as well as my other two classes') blogs listed in the blogrolls on the right.  Start perusing their blog posts, and find some that are interesting to you.  (You can even start 'following' your favorites on your own blog!)

You are required to comment on the blog posts of 808, 810, and 812.  I will be checking these responses.

A good, thoughtful blog comment might:
* praise interesting ideas in the original post
* ask for clarification of any unclear parts of the original post
* add the responder's own thoughts to original ideas to build strength
* contradict or challenge (respectfully!) by explaining another aspect or asking a question to further dialogue
* contain connections (to the self, the world, another text, or another part of the same text) to deepen thinking about the post

***  AND good, thoughtful blog responses always
* are respectful and coherent
* use standard vocab, spelling, and grammar (so that everyone can understand)
* show consideration of the original blogger's work and thought

When someone comments on your blog post, it's a great opportunity for a dialogue.  Also, it's just polite to respond when someone comments on your thoughts.  Answer their questions or respond to their ideas.  Turn it into a really deep "conversation"!  

Here are a few links to comments from past years that push the bloggers to think more deeply about their original posts:

Xinyuan and Nallely have a back-and-forth about what real-world benefits there might be to reading a book:
http://19xweng.blogspot.com/2019/03/synthesis-page-blog-post-red-thread.html#comments

Bassie and Lousig discuss whether or not performance-enhancing drugs would ever be a logical choice:
http://18lmorris.blogspot.com/2018/04/an-explanation-of-how-doping-affects.html#comments

Louise and Ivy have an interesting dialogue about how Ivy's book can relate to a real-world issue:
http://16iaukin.blogspot.com/2015/10/ya-book-report-madmans-daughter-by.html#comment-form

Daniel gets some great feedback from multiple classmates on his thoughtful post about an article detailing racial disparities and marijuana arrests:
http://18daaraoreisartu.blogspot.com/2018/05/non-fiction-critical-analysis-x-blog.html#comments

Rafaella thinks about a book in a new way because of Henry's post:
http://groovyela.blogspot.com/2015/05/ive-found-that-in-past-ive-read-books.html#comment-form

Eileen and Aziza have a dialogue about an important societal issue:
http://in-the-atmosphere.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-everything-changed-amazing-journey.html#comment-form

Elinor and Georgia add their thoughts to Fiona's post here:
http://whenyouwishuponabook.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-kind-of-funny-story-blog-post.html#comment-form

Izzy asks a thought-provoking question, and Amelia responds (with a little encouragement from me!):
http://allflyby.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-evolution-of-calpurnia-tate.html#comment-form

Leah, Alison, and Alex elaborate on a post and reach new levels of understanding: http://leahlevine2000.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-virgin-suicides-by-jeffrey-eugenides.html#comment-form

Pietro and Sophie even plan to discuss something more in-depth off the web!  http://pietrocosta.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-review-of-perfect-match-written-by.html#comment-form


See if you can find any really great comments from your classmates to each other.  Can you join in the conversation?

Mr. Sato's "How to Write a Hook" and "How to Write a Conclusion" Videos!

All-star Synthesis Pages on “Ashes”

There were so many beautiful synthesis pages today it was hard to choose which to share!
Here are some really great ones.

All-Star Mentor SYNTHESIS PAGES from the past!

Here are some stellar examples of synthesis pages from the past!

How to Create a Synthesis Page

A synthesis page is a place where you can creatively express an idea you have based on your reading inquiry!

It could be a web, map, chart, comic, diagram, list, or any combination of words and illustrations to help you notice patterns and make sense of the focus and evidence. Be creative! Also, use this as a way to help you explore your ideas about the text and develop ideas you will most likely use to write your next reading response.

What to include on your synthesis page:

•   focus: stated as a sentence, title, or an inquiry question such as "”What do the different settings in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian represent?”

•   textual evidence: relevant quotations that best support the focus

•   your thoughts (I think... because...), inferences (this shows that...), questions (Why... How...), connections (This reminds me of ... because...)

•   illustrations or colors to help you organize your thinking and notice patterns

For a synthesis page, you could:

·     *Unpack a few lines that all connect to one focus – see what ideas come up

·     *Make a double or triple mountain – Notice how this can help you think about author’s purpose

·     *Make a character sketch and include small details, relevant quotes, and your ideas about the character

·     *Make a theme trail that connects conflict, resolution, and theme, with some writing about the lessons or messages the author sends

·     *Analyze the archetypal characters and journeys in the book to analyze author’s purpose

·    *Think and sketch about symbolism in the text – how does it work?

·     *Sketch the setting and brainstorm about its important

·    *Create graphic organizers and charts to sort through thoughts

*  *Organize your post-its into categories and draw conclusions from your annotations

·      *Create Venn Diagrams to compare/contrast elements of the story

·       *Be creative, and don’t be afraid to try anything you come up with!

After you have created a synthesis page, state your new understandings; these are the very beginning drafts of claims/thesis statements.