Sometimes I seem to go the whole weekend without saying anything out loud. Maybe this is in my head because of Speak, though it’s not that kind of silence. There’s just no one in the house to talk to, and…
Category: Journal
renaming, rethinking, and revising
So “Building Comprehension Word-by-Word” became “Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis.” And other than that, there has been no writing. There has been gathering. I needed to get a head start on the Ideas section for next week’s Inbox, so…
School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon
“The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.”
The higher the SAT scores, the more the house is worth | csmonitor.com
But will anyone realize that what this really tells us is how unfair the tests are to the economically-disadvantaged in the society?
Wal-Mart whips student’s parody site, from eSchool News
I’m not quite sure what I think about the situation reported in eSchool News’ article “Wal-Mart whips student’s parody site.” Okay, sure, Wal-Mart sucks with evil unparalleled; but can you just take graphics without changing them and call it parody?…
BBC NEWS | UK | Net-illiterate ‘failing children’
Someone has figured out that “family literacy” actually means all kinds of literacy, not just book-learnin’. Tags: digital divide | literacy | technological literacy | technology
Rewriting and Editing Day
When not winning books, :) I’ve mostly spent today editing. More accurately, rewriting and editing. First, I reformatted and made minor tidinesses to a framing text for a new Kit that is to come out next week. This one is…
I’m a winner!
Hey, my writing actually got me something!!! Woohoo!!!
Worker Bee
Today has been a worker day. First thing, I finished up the Inbox Ideas section on Summer Reading (rough copy). It will go out tomorrow afternoon. I updated and edited a calendar entry on Yusef Komunyakaa. It had been cut…
Geography Club
X-posted to teenliterature Geography Club by Brent Hartinger. HarperCollins, 2003. In this young adult novel, a group of students gathers to form a geography club, “a club that’s so boring, nobody would ever in a million years join it” (63).…