This week’s Ideas section for NCTE’s Inbox focuses on Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins on September 15. The resources focus on classroom activities for teaching works by Latino/a authors, including Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, and Gary Soto. Tags: English language…
Author: Traci Gardner
Miscellany
Cleaning out my Bloglines clippings folder (e.g., procrastinating): “I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online,” from the July 28, 2005 California Computer News Magazine, reviews a new ALA book on teens and their Internet habits. The book…
People who know me will be surprised to hear that I got out of bed and was dressed before noon, and I actually left the house and ran some errands. People who know me very well will not be surprised…
Wrote and posted a 6-8 lesson plan, Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions. It’s based on some of the resources from a 9-12 lesson plan on naming online. The 6-8 version focuses instead on copy-change imitation, using…
Edited and posted a 3-5 lesson plan: Literature Circle Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film Crew. Basically, students are asked to think about the roles that a film crew plays when a book is turned into a movie. They read…
Memorial flowers from my family, to celebrate the swimming life of dearly departed Stanley. Mom wanted to send a note that said: Stanley will be missed by one and all. Don’t forget to close the door on the bathroom stall.…
Tidied my office today, because my world is messy and confused and scattered and I am lost. I have no idea if it will work, but it will probably fake people out. At least there are no longer piles of…
swimmy no more
Stanley 2003-2005 RIP Stanley Fish, know affectionately as “Swimmy” to family members, went to meet his maker on Wednesday, September 7, 2005. :( Stanley is survived by his sad Spongebob and Patrick tank friends as well as the ReadWriteThink staff.…
Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
Finished editing and posted Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter, a 3-5 lesson inspired by events in Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary. Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | ReadWriteThink
My prediction…
Mark your calendars. I’m making a prediction that the Republicans will use the current problems caused to the oil industry by Katrina to argue that we must open alaska to oil production immediately—and someone will say, at some point, that…