While I was looking for resources for a lesson on the Grapes of Wrath, I found a National Archive lesson plan that’s interesting in this time of War on Terrorism. Teaching With Documents: FDR’s First Inaugural Address Declaring “War” on…
Author: Traci Gardner
Today, BBC News reports Today’s teenagers ‘more literate’. The article explains that “Teenagers are more literate than they were 10 years ago, one of the largest studies of exam papers suggests.” The problem, of course, is that assessment of literacy…
Miscellany
Cleaning out my Bloglines clippings folder (e.g., procrastinating): Mentioned on datacloud: It Figures This blog defines figures of speech with current events and pop culture examples. Not all will be usable in the classroom, but many could be tapped. The…
Great. Everyone else gets cool pictures, and I’m the nerd librarian. Bonus. What a reason to live. You are a Revisionist Historian. You are the ClarkKent of postmodernists. You probably want towork in a library or in social services.…
I have lovely new soffits, which have appropriate venting that I can actually see. The roofing owner mentioned that this would be one of the features of the new stuff. Now if I had gutters and pressured washed all the…
The unauthorized exposé is here: NCTE Halloween Party. Yes, I know that you all never believed me when I said this happens. Now you have photographic proof.
The dumpster was gone when I got home from the office; so I get to park back by the garage again. But who knows what they’ll come up with tomorrow, so I’m leaving the car outside so that they know…
Frappr was just posted on the TAWL list. They’re using it to map the locations of list members, but it got me to thinking of lesson options. Students mapping their extended families. Mapping literary authors. Mapping important locations for a…
The owner of the roofing company just came to my door. Apparently my soffit is shot, and the facia (?) that it should connect to wasn’t properly done in the first place. $600. He showed me places where someone had…
I swear there are monkeys involved in this roofing project. You’d think that propping a ladder up against a house required a degree in astrophysics for the noise and nonsense going on outside my window. Hell, I looked out the…