My travel plans are such a mixed-up mess. I thought I had to wait till Monday to get everything done and because of other things that are going on. Now I’ve learned that the caravan to Pennsylvania has been called…
Author: Traci Gardner
Finished editing a lesson play by one of the authors of NCTE’s new book Amy Tan in the Classroom. The lesson focuses on the connections between language and identity. It’s Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Beyond.…
Had our division gift exchange at work today. ReadWriteThink falls under Professional Development, which is within the Division of Publications and Professional Development (or something like that). Basically, the group is ReadWriteThink, the journals folks, and the books folks. My…
Lifehacker told me all about iTunes Signature Maker today. After a little fiddling with my machine (turns out I had two libraries), I created my own iTunes signature. It’s probably way too big, but it was fun. Now I have…
The Ideas section for today’s Inbox focused on Supporting and Exploring Diversity. The articles and lesson plans discuss ways to talk about family histories and culture. The pieces could be done at the holidays—or any time. Finished up Onomatopoeia: A…
I’m so used to going straight home after work. Tonight, I ran around doing errands, searching for presents for the gift exchanges at work. Didn’t get home till after 9. After that, the entire evening was mixed up. In my…
Finally finished and published Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment, while baking even more cookies. The highlight was the triple chocolate decadence cookies. Mmm. Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | lesson plans | ReadWriteThink
I managed to actually get dressed and leave the house. Really. On a Saturday. I got dressed. Two Saturday in a row really, since I went to the holiday party last weekend, and I guarantee that I was dressed for…
More snow, though there’s really only a few inches on the ground. It’s just persistent. I spent most of the day working on the writing metaphor lesson plan and most of this evening working on holiday stuff (checking on presents,…
Snow…the ground is all white today. NCTE even closed an hour early. Of course, I just came home and continued working. I’m writing up a lesson that I used to do in FYC. Students explore Richard Wright’s poem “The Writer”…