MONEY CALCULATOR

(Find the changing value of money from year to year!)

 

I found this while teaching "The Gift of the Magi."

WOW! COMPETITION FOR YOUTUBE! The Free Market is at Work!

FIGHT
CENSORSHIP!

Embrace choices!
(my new favorite...) 
gab.ai

also...
DTube.video!!
(Connected to steemit.com)

OR
BitChute.com

Both are competing with YouTube!

One of the best things for the market is

COMPETITION!

When one business is 

"The Only Game in Town,"

there is no reason to improve or 

work FOR the customer.

THAT HAS CHANGED!

These are starting small: 
They will need our help!

They're BETAs, but it's a start!!

LOOK OUT, YOUTUBE!!

Where Can You Find.the Story, _____, Online?

Where can I find an online copy of... 


PATRIOTISM! -- 

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
The Federalist Papers - Various
George Washington's Farewell Address   (Facsimile)
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death" - Patrick Henry
"I Have a Dream" - Dr. Martin Luther King
The Man Without a Country - Edward E. Hale
On Liberty - John Stewart Mill!
Patriotic Speeches - Various
"Pledge of Allegiance Commentary" - Red Skelton
Signers of the Declaration - Various
The United States Bill of Rights
"The Star-Spangled Banner"   (Smithsonian Mag. "history")


Purchasable...The Doomsday Machine - Daniel Ellsberg 



BEOWULF -- Anonymous

• Beowulf - Old English (OE) (Original)
• Beowulf - Modern English (MnE) 
• *Beowulf  (OE and MnE) (Parallel Text)
• Beowulf (MnE) II
• Beowulf (MnE) (Audio)
• Beowulf (MnE) Prose
• Beowulf (MnE) Prose II
• Beowulf (MnE) Prose III
• Beowulf (MnE) Prose IV

                                         STUDY MATERIAL
                                                 Beowulf and the Epic Tradition
                                                 Beowulf

OEDIPUS REX -- Sophocles

• Oedipus Rex
• Oedipus the King
• Oedipus the King II
• Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles
• Three Theban Plays
• Oedipus Rex (PBS shorter version)

The INFERNO -- Dante

•  Dante's Inferno -- Silent Movie, 1911!!  Amazing!!
• Divine Comedy - The Inferno (illustrated)
• *Divine Comedy - The Inferno (Longfellow translation)
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri The Inferno
• Divine Comedy - Hell (Inferno) (Page 7)

CANTERBURY TALES  -- Chaucer

• *Canterbury Tales (ME and MnE) PARALLEL TEXT 
• Canterbury Tales, VOL.1 (Middle English [ME])
• Canterbury Tales, VOL.2 (ME)
• Canterbury Tales (ME)
• Canterbury Tales (ME): ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPT
• Canterbury Tales (MnE)
• Stories from Chaucer:  Canterbury Tales (MnE)
• Canterbury Tales (MnE) Prose
• Chaucer for Children (MnE) Prose
• eChaucer

                                             STUDY MATERIAL:
                                                Canterbury Tales (Annotated!)
                                                Canterbury Tales: Elsmere Collection
                                                Canterbury
                                                Canterbury Pilgrims and Their Ways
                                                Canterbury Chimes: Retold for Children 
                                                                           (Great Introduction)
                                                Pilgrims' Way
                                                The Cathedral Church of Canterbury
                                               Visualizing Chaucer (University of Rochester)

                                             FOR FUN:
                                                The New Canterbury Tales
                                                 (Maurice Hewlett -- NOT Chaucer's Pilgrims!)

MYTHS, FAIRY TALES, & FABLES

•  Aesop's Fables 
• Children of the Dawn:  Old Tales of Greece - Elsie F. Buckley
• Fairy Books of Andrew Lang 
• Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
• Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
• Adaptions of the Grimm Fairy Tales
• English Fairy Tales
• Myths of the Norsemen - H. A. Grueber
• Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving (includes "Rip Van Winkle")
• Stories from Hans (Christian) Anderson

The ODYSSEY

The Odyssey -- Fitzgerald Translation                

The Odyssey -- Samuel Butler Translation
The Odyssey -- William Cowper Translation
The Odyssey -- Alexander Pope Translation
The Odyssey -- Butcher & Lang TranslationThe Odyssey -- Samuel Butler Translation  AUDIO  AUDIOThe Odyssey -- Samuel Butler Translation                                (Bookrags.com; Start at "Introduction")
The Odyssey -- Samuel  Butler Translation   AUDIO  

SHAKESPEARE

• Open Source Shakespeare

VARIOUS CLASSICS

1984 - George Orwell (Audio)
A Tree Grown in Brooklyn - Smith
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll     (Audio)
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
Anthem - Rand
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
Brave New World - Huxley
Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
Christmas Carol - Dickens
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Decameron - Boccaccio
          Part I    Part II
Divine Comedy - Dante
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson (Audio)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Audio)
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens  (Audio)
Gulliver's Travels - Swift (AUDIO ONLY)
House of Seven Gables - Hawthorn
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kidnapped - R.L. Stevenson
Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott  (Audio)
Lorna Doone--A Romance of Exnor - R. D. Blackmore
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Maggie:  A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
Moby Dick, or The Whale - Herman Melville
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Peter Pan - Barrie
Pride and Prejudice - Austin
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Robin Hood 
Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Tales of Men and Ghosts - Edith Wharton
Tess of d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Man in the Iron Mask - Dumas
The Man Without a Country - Edward E. Hale
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Pyle
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Pirate - Walter Scott
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Secret Garden - Burnett
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorn
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonngutt
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
White Fang - Jack London
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


NON-FICTION:
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald  (The author of The Great Gatsby!)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave - Douglass
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller


BONUSES:
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY -- James Baldwin
The Lock and Key Library- Real Life Detective Stories (1831!)
Myths of the Norsemen - H. A. Grueber
Dracula--Facts, Myths --Rudolph J. Strutz


WELL, ISN'T THIS INTERESTING!
Christmas Short Works Collection - Librivox (AUDIO)
My First Little German Book (Juvenile but cute!)
Peter and Wendy - J.M. Barrie  (Peter Pan)
Witch Winnie's Mystery  (1891) - Elizabeth Champney


SHORT STORIES:

"Cask of Amontillado" - Edgar Allen Poe
"Gift of the Magi"- O'Henry (Audio HERE)*
"Gift of the Magi" - O'Henry (Audio HERE)
"The Invalid's Story" - Mark Twain
"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson
"The Minister's Black Veil" - Nathaniel Hawthorn
"The Monkey's Paw" - W. W. Jacobs
"The Necklace" - Guy de Maupassant
"The Possibility of Evil" - Shirley Jackson
"The Read-Headed League" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A Rose for Emily" - William Falkner
"To Build a Fire" - Jack London
"Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?"  - Tim O'Brian


Susan Glaspell wrote one story in two forms, presenting a unique opportunity to compare genres of Drama and Fiction:
"A Jury of Her Peers" - Susan Glaspell
"Trifles" - Susan Glaspell

FOR THE ENGLISH TEACHER...or student:

I recently came across some teaching materials I put together as an English teacher--in another life.  

I'll post these as I find them:  You never know who might be able to use them!

Here's one about pronouns...

The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most  Road Epic Trips

...from Atlas Obscura

Written by Richard Kreitner

Map by Steven Melendez

Electronic Privacy -- WHO Knows WHAT You Have Read?

The Rise of Reading Analytics and the Emerging Calculus of Reader Privacy in the Digital World

by Clifford Lynch

Electronic Privacy--WHO knows WHAT you are reading and have read? How? 

This isn't as "dry" as it looks!  Or, maybe, it's just me?

ABSTRACT

This paper studies emerging technologies for tracking reading behaviors ("reading analytics") and their implications for the reader privacy, attempting to place them in a historical context,  It discusses what data is being collected, to whom it is available, and how it might be used by various interested parties (including authors).  I explore means of how tracking what's being read, who is doing the reading, and how readers discover what they read.  The paper includes two case studies:  mass-market e-books (both directly acquired by readers and mediated by libraries) and scholarly journals (usually mediated by academic libraries); in the latter case, I also provide examples of the implications of various authentications, authorizations and access management practices on reader privacy.  While legal issues are touched upon, the focus is generally pragmatic, emphasizing technology and marketplace practices.  The article illustrates the way reader privacy concerns are shifting from government to commercial surveillance and the interactions between government and the private sector in this area.  The paper emphasizes U.S.-based developments.

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RELATED:

"You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History"

by Juliana DeVries

June 2, 2015

"Khairullozhori Matanov, a friend of the Boston bomber, is being sentenced 

under a law whose purview is growing disturbingly wide."

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"Surprise!  NSA Data Will Soon Routinely be Used for 

Domestic Policing That has Nothing to do With Terrorism"

by Radley Balko

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"They're Watching You Read"

by Francien Prose

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"New and Old:  Serious Reader Privacy Concerns Both Inside and Outside of the Library"

Gary Price

from Library Journal

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"Libraries and National Security:  An Historical Review"

by Joan Starr

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"Librarians are Dedicated to User Privacy.  

The Tech They Have to Use is Not"

By April Glaser & Alison Macrina

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"Technical Analysis of Client Identification Mechanism"
(The Chromium Projects)
"Online Tracking..."
(Princeton.edu)

(Technical, but loaded!)
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SHARE YOUR FAVORITE QUOTES!!

I keep coming across great quotes that I want to share.  

If I do, I bet you do, too!

HERE IS  A PLACE 

TO SHARE THEM! 

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My first quote has relevance here:

When searching for subjects to discuss in the classroom, 

my caveat* is always the same.  We'll use it here, too:

Share whatever you want,

 "...AS LONG AS IT'S LEGAL AND MORAL"

                      --Mrs. Meier

*caveat /ˈkavēˌat,ˈkävēˌät/  noun

a warning, a condition, or a limitation

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 "The cracked pot waters the wildflowers."

                                          --from a famous parable

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 "Develop a servant's heart."

                          --Great People
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 "The Library is the people's university."
                         --Bill Ptacek
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"We can't help everyone, but 
everyone can help someone."
                                    --President Reagan
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"Sometimes you're the windshield.
Sometimes you're the bug." -- Internet Wisdom

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"You're never too old to say, 'Horses!' 
when you drive by some horses." -- Internet Wisdom

Personalized Learning Starts in Libraries

from eSchool News--Daily Tech News & Innovation

A Surfer Finds Gold

To mix metaphors:  I love surfing the Internet, and mining for treasures. Some are short, some are long; some are serious, some are playful; some are educational, some are "junk food" for the brain!  Mostly, I hope they are of interest!

It's no fun finding fun things you can't share, so  HERE YOU ARE with my latest:

Libraries:

The Life and Death of the Library of Alexandria
(One of the most horrible losses to the wisdom of the world!!) 

Music:
The Kid Should See This
(Well, THAT was fun!)

News, Libraries, and Antiquity:

The Monk Who Saved Manuscripts From ISIS

(That was Good News stacked upon Bad!)

Inventions:

How the Invention of Paper Changed the World

Controversy:  Who owns what YOU buy?
(Do you have the right to know how to repair devices you paid for?)
Industry, and Apple, Oppose "Right to Repair" 
Laws                         (also see ifixit,org )

When you want to entertain yourself and learn at the same time...

Made From

(An eclectic bunch of history and science facts!)

Fewer Landfills?  Imagine the uses!

Seaweed-based Water Pouch 
Aims to End the Need 
for Plastic Bottles"

by Ryan Whitwam

Location-based literature!

As you read, stand where the story takes place.

That is really getting INTO your book!

Fiction's Newest Frontier:  Literacy Geocaching

Pneumatic System 

of the New York Library                  
Leftovers from New York's Pneumatic System,

begun in 1897!




 

Language Lit Timeline

Listen to samples of Beowulf, Old English, Middle English, etc.!

--from The British Library

Bonus:  Stories Everywhere

Please share your own treasured finds with us!

Dead Sea Scrolls!

New Dead Sea Scrolls Cave Discovered!

• 9 February 2017

Archaeologists have found a cave that once housed Dead Sea scrolls in a cliff in the Judean desert - the first such discovery in over 60 years.
Israel's Hebrew University said the ancient parchments were missing from the cave, and were probably looted by Bedouin people in the 1950s.
Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping, and a leather tying string were found at the site.
The Dead Sea scrolls date from as early as the 4th Century BC.
The priceless records include more than 800 documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on animal skin and papyrus.
As well as containing the oldest copies of many biblical texts, they also include many secular writings about life in the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD.
The first Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947, reportedly by a young Bedouin shepherd hunting for a lost sheep in Qumran, on the modern-day West Bank.

It is not known who wrote the scrolls, although some scholars have credited a Jewish sect called the Essenes.
The team excavating the latest cave was led by Dr Oren Gutfeld and Ahiad Ovadia from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with Dr Randall Price and students from Liberty University in Virginia.
The pottery jars and wrappings were found concealed in niches along the cave's walls, and inside a 4-6m (16-20ft) tunnel at its rear.

                    The team found fragments of pottery jars that contained the stolen scrolls

"Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea Scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave," said Dr Gutfeld.
"Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we "only" found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen," he said.
"The findings include the jars in which the scrolls and their covering were hidden, a leather strap for binding the scroll, a cloth that wrapped the scrolls, tendons and pieces of skin connecting fragments, and more."
The team also found a seal made from carnelian, a semi-precious stone - evidence that prehistoric people once lived in the desert cave.

                                   Cloth that was used for wrapping the scrolls

The Bedouin looting theory arose with the discovery of two iron pickaxe heads from the mid-20th Century that had been left inside the cave tunnel.
"I imagine they came into the tunnel. They found the scroll jars. They took the scrolls," Dr Gutfeld said. "They even opened the scrolls and left everything around, the textiles, the pottery."
He said this could be just the first in a series of discoveries, with hundreds of caves yet to be explored.

            This tiny carnelian seal is evidence that the cave was once inhabited

Pictures: Casey L. Olson and Oren Gutfeld

CLICK →Digital Dead Sea Scrolls !

The Stuff MEMEs are Made of!

THE STUFF MEMES ARE MADE OF!

I found a new "favorite picture," 

and I didn't even know that I was looking for one.

I found it through the Library of Congress, 
and it speaks more than a thousand words to me!

The entire family dynamic is interesting, but 

the little guy to the right is my absolute favorite part of the picture! 
  

This is for anyone who ever felt "different"!

(You don't always have to "fit in"!)

Make Memories Permanent

"How Memories Become Permanent:  

Scientists Identify Process that Controls 'Rhythmic' Brain Waves for the First Time"

(Or in German)

 Sharp wave ripples play a key role in strengthening memories, but the mechanism that forms their shape and rhythm had not been identified.  Now, a team of researchers have found that they are formed by synaptic inhibitions.  They also believe that "it could be main factor in memory consolidation."

Watch a brain form a memory!

SeeBotsChat

Two bots interact...

occasionally arguing about whether or not they are human!

(Click on the picture to go to site)

It's good for a snicker!