"For a friendly letter use white paper (or you may use a pastel shade if you're a girl) in any sizes of single or double sheets for personal correspondence."
p. 119, Modern English in Action, Seven,
(D.C. Heath, 1968)
You've made an impression alright, but it may not be the one you wanted.
Well, today's diet experiment didn't come out very well. Had brussels sprouts around midday when i got hungry. Wasn't hungry before then. then around 3 wanted a mocha, so got that. Felt full and didn't eat anything else.
By the time I got home at 7ish, I was hungry. Went about cooking something (cabbage, whole wheat couscous, some beef stock). Suddenly I was so dizzy I thought I was going to fall down or pass out. I haven't been that dizzy in a very, very long time, and certainly not on the very first day of a diet. I don't know what happened. And at that point, I gave up again and ate several things that I shouldn't have.
Why can't I figure out a diet that I can actually manage to succeed at? Why can't I get my head to do things properly? I hate being such a failure :(
This week's Inbox is out. The
Ideas section was inspired by the e-portfolios statement adopted at CCCC last week. I worked in a link to Kathi's "
Postmodernism, Palimpsest, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work" (link only works for 21 days). My related NCTE Inbox blog entry offers some commentary on the thinking that should be behind students' Web-sensible e-portfolios.
Also (finally) finished revisions of the lesson plan that ties to
the English Journal article that I published this month (link only gets you to a login, but hey, I'm published on paper). The lesson
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" explores the poem and then asks students to adopt the persona of a character from the poem and write about their thoughts from a modern-day perspective. Not necessarily a new idea, but a fun assignment nonetheless.
Okay, I know it's pretty much a stock photo subject, but it came out well and I like it. Tonight I'm going to try to get some building shots.
Charles Melvin Sullivan, 83, Rockwood, passed on March 4. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Rockwood IOOF Cemetery.
Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:09:52 PDT
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