Thursday, December 20, 2007

Information Specialists Go Web 2.0


April Hatcher, David Miller and Lisa Lewis meet at Murphy JHS to publish their library blogs to the school community


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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New Books



New Books-Just Arrived

Jim Rasenberger, America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight
Joseph V. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Jimmy Carter, Beyond the White House: Waging Peace
Catherine J. Kordich, Bloom's How to Write About John Steinbeck
Anna Priddy, Bloom's How to Write About Emily Dickenson
Kim Becnel, Bloom's How to Write About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harold Bloom (ed.), Charles Dickens
Harold Bloom (ed.), Edgar Allan Poe
Canby Courtlandt, Encyclopedia of Historic Places
Susan Hitchcock Tyler, Frankenstein: A Cultural History
Eric Lane, The Genius of America
Jessica Snyder Sachs, Good Germs, Bad Germs
Harold Bloom (ed.), Jane Austen
Lawrence Bergreen, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
John W. Wright (ed.), The New York Times Almanac 2008
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Harold Bloom (ed.), Ralph Waldo Emerson
Devra Lee Davis, The Secret History of the War On Cancer
Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History
Barbera Mertz, Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs
Frank Delany, Tipperary: A Novel
Harold Bloom (ed.), Walt Whitman






Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Mr. Jeremy Oatis----William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Briefly answer the following questions using full sentences:
1. In what year was Shakespeare born?
2. In what year was Julius Caesar born? When did he rule Rome?
3. What role did he play in European History?
4. Who was Brutus? What role did he play in Roman History?
5. Who was Marc Antony? What was his relationship to Caesar?
6. What is a Republic? In what year was the Roman Republic established?
7/ What is a triumverate? Who were the members of the First Triumverate?
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