Communication (Social Studies: Due on Tuesday September 23, 2008)

"The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation, but on the emotional context in which message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to over power. Attitudes are the real figures of speech".~ Edwin H. Friedman
Respond to the quote follwing the three steps mentioned below:1. Initial response (paraphrase in your cown words)
2. Agree/Disagree
3. Explain why you agree or disagree with the quote. Remember to elaborate using the strategies of making connections [text-self, text-text, and text-world]and also relate to the intelleginet behaviors.

Tuck Everlasting (Due on Sunday, September 7, 2008)

Compare Mae and Angus Tuck giving proofs from the text. Remember to use the Intelligent Behaviors to analyze the characters.

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