Attitudes About Education

What should education teach our students? Are leadership skills important? Does reading, writing, and arithmetic prepare our students for the future? Or, are other skills necessary.

Please share your views with this online survey.

Rave New World - The Reading Room Project Writing Practice

Chapter 1 introduces us to a world that is both different from ours and similar to ours. Addiction, embedded medical technology, the unemployment zone, etc. Do you like this world? How is it similar to our? How is it different? Does this world have a Big Brother feel to it?

Rave New World - The Reading Room Project Vocabulary (Chapter 1)

Chapter 1 introduces you to 71 S.A.T. words. I've listed them in alphabetical order. Review a few each day to begin your improvement of and mastery of your English vocabulary.

A

• abashed, abhorred, adept, adroit, aggrandizement, annihilated, argot, ascended, asinine, audibly, azure

B

• beseeched, bolted, branded, bustle

C

• capitalized, coerced, cognizant, compelling, corroborate

D

•  distressed, docile, dread, dutiful

E

• embedded, elite, endorsements, exasperation, expurgated

F

• fastidious, flourished, forbearance, frenetic, furrowed

G

• gleaming

I

• iconic, imperious, implement, incompetent, ingenious, ignorance ,induced, insouciant, interceded, inured, iridescent

L

• liability, linger, luminous

M

• muster

N

• nationalization

O

• obscure

P

• perfunctorily, peruse, phlegmatic, ponder, precise, probe, prosaic, pulchritude 

R

• recidivist, reconstruct

S

• sedate, stunted, supplication, synesthete

T

• taciturn, trepidation, tried

V

• vice, vivacious

Rave New World - The Reading Room Project Life in 2157

This story talks about life in the future, life in the year 2157. What will life be like then? Take a moment and share your views here.

Rave New World - The Reading Room Project Introduction

Rave New World

It's the year 2157, and every pleasure that doesn't turn people into dutiful consumers has been classified as an addiction and outlawed. Jaden Emory's job is to find out people's hidden addictions—and root them out. But when rebellious raver Ally Fayre enters the picture, it's Jaden who becomes addicted...to her. 

 - http://www.sparknotes.com/satfiction/ravenewworld/

That's the premise for Rave New World. It's the future and consumerism is the way of life and maybe even the way of government. Read the first chapter. Subsequent posts provide questions and other opportunity for you to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing

The Reading Room Project

The Reading Room Project is a place to learn new vocabulary, improve your reading skills, and practice your writing. SparkNotes is an independent publisher of study guides. The study guides include a set of free S.A.T. vocabulary novels that are designed to help you learn the words that comprise the verbal section of the S.A.T. The Reading Room will provide self-study questions and vocabulary quizzes based on each chapter of the various vocabulary novels. You will also have the opportunity to write short essays based on different chapters. Your essay will be published here where I and other students can provide you writing tips to improve your writing.

Startup Idea - Zip Buses

I think someone should start a Zip Bus-type company to compete with public transportation. In Boston, the buses are crowded and often late. Why not have competition?

Zip buses or other types of buses running on alternative energy would be the way to go. We need to resolve our fuel dependency. Add wireless access, make the buses comfortable that accommodate to people's riding habits.

Any thoughts?