An Oreo cookie is the perfect creative constraint - circular, black and white, crispy and creamy...the possibilities are endless. With...

For today's journal you will answer one of the prompts your peers suggested. Choose a card from the bowl. Whatever card you get, consider...

Let's explore vocabulary from Kokoro pp. 1-78 chosen by YOU. The ones in YELLOW were suggested by both students and teacher; the BLUE...

Melancholy is a state of being that is quite thematic in our novel Kokoro. But what exactly is it? Is it necessarily a bad thing? Today...

To what extent can our visceral emotions transcend language? Is it possible to "understand" without comprehending the words? Jon Henrik...

There is a lot of symbolism in the novel Kokoro...lots of shadows and hiding the truth. Let's use black and white photography to capture...

Macbeth would just not work if not for the fact that its characters were highly superstitious and gave credit to the Weird Sisters'...

Throughout our reading and exploration of Macbeth you will be asked to contribute to a collaborative reflective reading space on Padlet....

One theme in Macbeth that is evident early on, with the 3 witches chanting "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair..." is that things are not what...

The poster above gives a lot of clues to the story of Macbeth. There's a bloody hand, shaped and placed like a king's crown. The eyes are...

This is a TED ED video lesson. We will watch the movie together first and discuss. Then we will use it as practice for a visual...

Macbeth is considered a "tragedy" play, even though it is technically also a "history" play, as Shakespeare based it on real people and...

Let's explore more of the background. Another fairly good treatment is from John Green in his "Crash Course History". Understanding the...

This journal is based on a quote from KOKORO. "Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of...

We will be using the collaborative vlogging platform "Flipgrid" throughout the year. You will need to download the app on your mobile...

There are some things lost in language. We humans have universal experiences and feelings that sometimes we can't put into...

A "neologism" is a "new word". Some experts credit Shakespeare with coining over 1700 new words. That doesn't even count all the phrases...

Please access and SAVE this Padlet to use as you read Kokoro - the directions are self-explanatory. https://padlet.com/amyburvall/kokoroI...

In 1890, a teenage Marcel Proust (famous French writer) answered a series of personality questions in a "confessions album" (a popular...