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…
Category: Journal
Idea generation methods
This Idea generation methods site mentioned on 43 Folders looks like a great potential resource for a prewriting lesson plan.
Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences with Audio Texts
Just finished writing and proofreading a new 9-12 lesson plan that asks students to explore the ways that audio texts play a role in their lives. Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio…
#506 – Guess the artefact
My actions and thought process are now the subject of a contest. Go ahead. Try to guess what I’ll choose :)
August 15 Content Report
We turn in content reports for ReadWriteThink on the 1st and the 15th of each month, so today I did the last-minute work to get the report turned in. The report lists the lesson plans that were published since the…
7 Days So Far…
So as of about 10:30 this morning, I have gone a week without my favorite beverage—diet brown soda. I think the headaches may be mostly over. I’m not having the constant horror that it was anyway. I’m really tired of…
Two new lessons posted
Edited and published two new ReadWriteThink lessons, both for 3-5 classes. Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel is a departure from the typical plot diagram. Students diagram plot events on a spectrum from positive to negative (as they define…
Web Increasingly Cluttered By Sites Full of Paid Links
I am dumbfounded by how this could be a new observation. Geesh.
Endless Burping Headaches
Last Monday (the 1st), I ended up leaving work early with this queasy stomach. I was coughing up bile and other not fun things. I didn’t think that it was the food. Other people ate the same stuff, and I…