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…
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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”…
Spent the day working ahead, so that I have a little bit of a cushion regarding Inbox. I did the pieces for 12/14, 1/4, and 1/10. There’s no Inbox on the 20th because of scheduled maintenance on the NCTE machine…
Suddenly we’re having errors that blank out entire calendar entries when the editor/writer tries to work on them. I’m at a loss for the solution. I can’t even figure out what the problem is. He’s working in the online form,…
I’ve begun the process of baking cookies for Christmas. I created a bunch of red and green pinwheels. More than I could actually finish baking, but I got a start. Can’t really take much credit for these. I bought red…
Wow. Tonight was the NCTE Holiday Party, an excellent opportunity for people watching. Naturally, I won one of the bottles of wine in the raffle. Why can’t I ever win things that I can actually use? The whole event is…
Finished editing and published the January Calendar for ReadWriteThink. Unfortunately, I found that the javascript for the titles isn’t really working. It’s great on the pages, but not for the spiders. They’re grabbing the javascript code for the title, rather…