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"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story." -Tim O'Brien   "An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." -Unknown "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser

Welcome to Mr. Blue's wiki. We will use this space throughout the year on a regular basis to share our ideas about the books we are reading and as a general resource for our English class. Look on the left-hand side of the page to locate your particular class, and click on the link. That will take you to a more specific page for your particular level.

At the beginning of every year, I get very excited about the potential of literature to change lives. I did not fall in love with literature until late in college, when a Religion professor opened my eyes to the spiritual truths hidden in virtually all literature. As if he had given me new glasses with which to see, I suddenly viewed literature as something relevant to the concerns of my own life rather than something boring and unrelated to me. My hope is that you will have the same discovery this year. Maybe you won't become an English teacher, but perhaps you will come to love reading more than you do now, or perhaps you will learn how to read so as to see the relevance to your own life. Maybe you'll just come to adore a certain author and want to read more of him/her. Regardless of what happens, I hope this year will enrich your lives. That's my goal.