This is the first article you need to write while generating most of the content yourself. It concerns pages 17-37, and I am not giving you a lot of specific guidance, because I want you to push yourself to come up with something to say about what you are reading. The requirements that I have [...]
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Ths letter was intended to be heard, and you can hear me read it by clicking on the podcast. I thought it through quite thoroughly, though, and figured it was worth posting the transcript.
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I feel as though beginning our unit on John Steinbeck requires a moment to stop and discuss my personal feelings toward this [...]
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You have now begun Of Mice and Men, and we’ll be using our blogs as a major area for hashing out ideas and thinking about the book. Take a moment right away to create a new category called Of Mice and Men, and remember to stick your articles from this unit under that category.
I would [...]
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Concerning your thinking on the tools of a painter, I appreciate the credit you give to painters for being thoughtful creators.
Jean2008 points out that a painter likely knows an entire story behind each painting – it makes me want to guess about what story a painter might have had in mind.
Emmerz makes this point about [...]
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I tell Ellen stories and we always start with the important form: “Once upon a time.” I insist on making the stories up, always trying to outdo the story I told the time before. Though my stories are not from scratch (I shamelessly steal material from any source, be it Homer or Grimm), their final [...]
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Today I pass along part of an email I received from a good friend of mine, whose wife is pregnant:
Last Monday we went in and Kristi had an ultrasound and as I’m sitting there looking at my child move round on the screen, there was just a little bit of me jealous that Kristi got [...]
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If, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, then we should be able to write for pages and pages about the significance of one photograph or painting. I could write all about the dust that had accumulated at my brother-in-law’s apartment, and how it had been unnoticed while untouched, but within [...]
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Well, thanks to Cool Cat Teacher, who alterted me to Brian Benzinger’s work compiling lists (see 1 and 2) and analysis of the great tools of Web 2.0. I went looking for a calendar, mostly to keep myself on track with vocabulary units that I accidentally put off too often, and before I knew [...]
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Okay, so I’m a radio geek. Butother people think these things are funny too (like my radio geek brother-in-law). My wife caught this one on Marketplace (on the radio, not a podcast - what a crazy way to consume media) and told me to find it because she knew I’d find it hysterical. Of course, [...]
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I am aware that schools are not going to be the first to jump into the technical arena. It’s too fragmented and financially strapped as an industry to more than spotty in its technical development; I am not naive enough to believe otherwise. But still, I always hoped that we in educuation would be able [...]
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Of Mice & Men Worth It
