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		<title>Podcast Episode 3: The Murakami Chronicles</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/10/podcast-episode-3-the-murakami-chronicles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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In the third episode of our 11th Grade English Literature class Podcast Series, students discuss Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
Part 1 (0:25-16:03): Cinthiya, Aidyn &#38; Rachel investigate the novel as agenre and the debate between how Japanese or Western Murakami&#8217;s style is. They focus on interpretations of a few of Murakami&#8217;s symbols, find some connections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laberinto</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/04/laberinto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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My 11th grade English class has been studying translated texts by authors&#8211;Borges, Murakami, and Marquez&#8211;who reference and use labyrinths as symbols in their writing, and we have been working with a semester thematic focus of &#8220;Narrative Labyrinths and Infinite Possibilities.&#8221; We decided to create a walking labyrinth outside.
The guidelines for walking a labyrinth are simple:

Walk at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural and Contextual Considerations in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/05/03/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 05:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in a larger map
This will be the final installment of our reflections on translated works, and we  we will use the same requirements as when we wrote about Chronicle of a Death Foretold and our discussions of J.L. Borges.
We have discussed, journaled and podcasted about the following topics in relation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plays in Plays (What happens when fiction lives in fiction?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/29/plays-in-plays-what-happens-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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From Borges to Cervantes to Shakespeare to Velazquez, many artists have produced works that ask the question of &#8220;what happens when fiction lives in fiction?&#8221; and experimented with the play-in-play, or painter-in-painting, or novelist-in-novel, and so on, ad infinitum. Shakespeare&#8217;s A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream is no exception, and in class we have been drawing conclusions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resources about Knowledge (Can this title be more vague?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/28/resources-about-knowledge-can-this-title-be-more-vague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly, Theory of Knowledge class has its limitations: 1. For some strange reason, we are forced to assess our students (One can sarcastically imagine teachers asking themselves, &#8220;How proficient are their theories about knowledge? Excellent, very good, or adequate?&#8221;), 2. As a class the meets regularly in a high school, students are inhernently disinterested, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murakami Chronicles</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/11/the-murakami-chronicles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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Some praise for Haruki Murakami&#8217;s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
&#8220;The disappearance of a cat, the return of water, a compelling mystery. A labyrinth you just can&#8217;t escape.&#8221; &#8211;Alex &#38; Selma
&#8220;A unique and gripping adventure through the subconscious mind, giving insight into modern life. Murakami takes you to another world.&#8221; &#8211;Rachel &#38; Selma
&#8220;Compilations of ideas creating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arts as an Area of Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/10/the-arts-as-an-area-of-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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The Arts is perhaps my favorite Area of Knowledge to explore with my TOK class, and in some ways the most controversial. As far as the IB Diploma Program is concerned, the Group 6 courses (Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, Music, Film) is the only group out of the six &#8220;required&#8221; by IB that is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural and Contextual Considerations in Chronicle. . .</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/04/08/cultural-and-contextual-considerations-in-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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Try to say that five times fast. For our Chronicle of a Death Foretold reflections, we will use the same requirements as last time, when we wrote about our discussions of J.L. Borges.
We have discussed and journaled about the following topics in relation to Marquez&#8217; novella:

Analysis of time and place
What was easy to understand and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We Know from Our Emotions</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/03/21/what-we-know-from-our-emotions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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In Theory of Knowledge class we have been studying Emotion by investigating some statements and questions concerning this way of knowing. We began with novelist Arnold Bennett&#8217;s statement: “There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacalao de la Kvale</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/02/26/bacalao-de-la-kvale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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Below is a recipe for &#8220;Bacalao de la Kvale,&#8221; along with a brief history of the main ingredient, cod. I learned about cod from two main sources: traveling in Norway, and by reading Mark Krulansky&#8217;s book Cod: A Biography of a Fish that Changed the World, which might sound boring, but is instead fascinating.
The People’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Visual Design Belong in English Class?</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/24/does-visual-design-belong-in-english-class/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/24/does-visual-design-belong-in-english-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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Oftentimes, teachers speak highly of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), the idea being that all teachers should be in some way teachers of writing, encouraging students to communicate their ideas effectively in writing in every specific subject area. For many, including me, this makes perfect sense, and many schools have found success by implementing this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/16/reason-and-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/16/reason-and-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In TOK we began to investigate Reason as our Way of Knowing, and how statistics relates to this.  Two people came to mind:
Hans Rosling and his website Gapminder.org.  Here is an analysis of statistics by Rosling using his website that is similar to the TED Talk we watched in class:
Chris Jordan and his Running the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J.L. Borges Discussions and Reflections</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/12/j-l-borges-discussions-and-reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/12/j-l-borges-discussions-and-reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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As we begin our discussions on the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, I wanted to post some clarifications, and a location&#8211;this post&#8211;where we can add our reflections.  Please feel free to also add your discussion questions to this post ahead of time, if you would like your classmates to see them before your discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation Resources</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/05/presentation-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2012/01/05/presentation-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to avoid the dreaded curse of slideuments (presentations that are basically word documents pasted into a PowerPoint and helpful to no one), I wanted to point my students to some handy resources and ideas for creating presentations that are effective, memorable, and visually stimulating.
Two helpful websites that write about and compile presentation ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Writing and Life: Episode Two (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2011/12/12/some-thoughts-on-writing-and-life-episode-two-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2011/12/12/some-thoughts-on-writing-and-life-episode-two-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold the third and final part of a podcast series titled &#8220;Some Thoughts on Writing and Life.&#8221; In this part, Sarah, Aidyn and Christina make some conclusions about  Anne Lamott&#8217;s book Bird By Bird: Some Thoughts on Writing and Life and relate it to their own experiences with writing. I have been pleased with how these [...]]]></description>
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