Book Report Alternative: A Character’s Letter to the Editor is now live! The fun part about this lesson for me was working up the examples. Carl Hiaasen’s novel Hoot is coming out as a movie; so I used the situations…
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Daily Work: Burning Out (DVDs)
Continued work on the character letter to the editor lesson today. But more importantly, I copied an episode of South Park from the TiVo to my laptop. Got angry because I needed new software. Bought and downloaded software. And then…
ReadWriteThink: Letters to the Editor (and a Bonus Floral Surprise)
Finished writing and published Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor, a basic 9-12 lesson plan. It links to the 18th List of Ten: Ten Persuasive Prompts: Persuasive-Descriptive. I’m creating an alternate version that has students adopt a…
Daily Work: Rethinking Problems
Lots of ongoing work on lesson plans and such today. I handed off the March calendar and our phase 2 entries for an editor to run through. Decided how to handle the 1984 Macintosh lesson plan, and continued work on…
Daily Work: (or Not Work Acutally) Sick Day
I missed the Staff Appreciation Luncheon today because I was in bed feeling pretty iffy about my life. Some days, I just can’t get out of bed. Most days, even if I do get out of bed, my entire day…
Inbox: Reading and Writing in All Subject Areas
The Ideas section for today’s Inbox focuses on Reading and Writing in All Subject Areas. As the piece explains, “President Bush’s proposal to focus solely on the quality of math, science, and technological education ignores the important critical thinking and…
In the News: What Makes a Memoir?
As I was driving to work this morning, the local NPR station was talking with Philip Graham, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, and Antonia Leotsakos of the staff of Pages For All Ages Bookstore about book recommendations…
In the News: Book Publishing
Blurb Home: Washington Post review of a demo of the product explains that you go from “Blogs to Books, using a ‘Blog Slurper.’” The service is still in beta testing. It looks like an interesting product, but it’s not publishing…
ReadWriteThink: In the News
The sidebar on the Edutopia article “Tech Teaches” points to ReadWriteThink as a “cool link for online learning.”
ReadWriteThink: Audience/Purpose and a Graphic Organizer
Spent most of today working on the Inbox draft for tomorrow’s issue. Otherwise, just little things. There’s a new LinkScan report, so I have a new list of broken links to deal with (though I only looked through the report…