The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on The Gettysburg Address. Okay, I know. It probably seems like a stretch to some of you, but in actuality, it worked out fairly well. The entry includes some information on primary…
Author: Traci Gardner
The additional blade for my cute little Change-a-Bowl arrived on my front porch today :) When I ordered the extra blade, the operator suggested it could be quite a while because they weren’t even in the system yet. This was…
I’ve decided to pretend everything with be okay with Thanksgiving, even though I get daily reports on oddities. Today’s news, the washing machine has been broken for months. Sigh. Trying to pretend, I’ve created a tentative menu for what I…
I’m not completely sure why I did this, as it only tells me what I already know. I hate myself and never try hard enough. A quiz wasn’t really necessary to figure out things like I have no love. This…
New gutters
I don’t really understand myself today. Maybe I’m just really depressed. I stayed at home today. Lisa and Sharon both had kids out of school, so they were staying home with them. I was well over 40 hours, so I…
My dear technical support friend at the MCI Foundation had the site back up by 10:30. We still don’t know quite what caused the problem. Which means that we don’t know whether it will come back or not. The highlight…
This has been one full day. A conference call. Lunch meeting. Team meeting on some lessons and odds and ends. Work on the PowerPoint for the ReadWriteThink Advisory Board meeting. Finished the rough specs on the Book Cover interactive and…
the naive believe soft buds bloom early for spring later comes the truth quietly they hope pink petals struggling upward soon all is changed innocence lost wilted blooms shrivel then drop their dreams left dead
Writing Process Strategies (Inbox Ideas)
The Ideas section for today’s Inbox focused on modeling and exploring writing process strategies. It’s full of lesson plans for K-12, and a couple of articles for college. I also finished editing and published Susan Spangler’s lesson on pop culture.…
I finished editing and posted the 19th and 20th lessons for this FY this afternoon. The two lessons are written by Susanne Rubenstein, based on info in her NCTE book, Raymond Carver in the Classroom. The lessons can be done…