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 * Tuesdays with Morrie**

Please read the following background materials on death

[|Imagine.doc] [|Simon Blackburn Think.doc]

Based on these ideas on death and after your reading of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. here is a reading guide and a range of websites for you to explore

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[|Tuesdays with Morrie Reading Guide.doc] Here are some video clips that are also effective in elucidating your understanding of the text

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[] - Please check out all the news audio and media clips on this final website

__//Some thoughts on review prompts....//__
 * 1. ** Who got more out of their Tuesday meetings, Mitch or Morrie? What did each of them learn as they met?
 * 2. ** How did Mitch change during the book? Did your opinion of Mitch change? How?
 * 3. ** Do you think Mitch would have listened if Morrie hadn't been dying? Do we listen to people who are dying in a different way? Do their words carry special importance?
 * 4. ** How is the hibiscus plant in Morrie's study a metaphor for his life as well as for life in general?
 * 5 ** . Why did Mitch always bring food when he went to visit Morrie? Discuss the importance of this ritual.
 * 6. ** Does reading this book make it easier to talk about dying?
 * 7. ** What would you have said to Morrie if you had had the opportunity to visit him? What would you have asked him?
 * 8. ** Has there been an adult in your life who has had a significant impact on your thinking, your values or lifestyle and who therefore helped you to become the person you are?
 * 9. ** Morrie referred to himself as a bridge, a person between life and death, which made him useful to others as a tool to understand both. Talk about the literary, political or religious figures who have also served this purpose.
 * 10. ** What or who inspired Morrie's passion for books, education and people?

A few other useful resources

[|BonCurTuesdayswMorrie.pdf]

[|student_questions_PDF.pdf]

Complete a book review of no less than 800 words using the above questions as guide to Deadline 9 April 2010 Please upload this into ACE folder in IVLE under Morrie Review