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Weekend Culture: Sandwich Mondays
Ah, sandwiches. In case you’ve forgotten, the goal of this weekend’s posts is to give you a little of bit of sanity during this difficult stretch until winter break. Today’s sandwiches move from the...
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Tiny Texts: Google Doodles
It’s usually the worst when they’re sitting in the front row. It’s flagrant, disrespectful, and as I was digging through some of my notebooks from high school I noticed the sheer number of times I had...
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Brain Pickings: Posts about Authors
iStockphoto.com One of the things that draws me to Brain Pickings is the website’s constant focus on authors. Each week, posts examine unusual and unexpected aspects of those writers that I “spend”...
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Non-fiction: Letters of Note Overview
Incorporating more non-fiction is a consistent goal within most English curriculum planning. Common Core expectations focus on literary non-fiction and analyzing rhetoric as does AP, Honors and IB...
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Non-fiction: Letters of Note for Literature & History
As overviewed yesterday, this week’s goal is to easily implement non-fiction in the classroom with resources from the website Letters of Note. One of the best things about Letters of Note is the...
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Close Reading Satire
Okay, I have a guilty confession. I am a very naïve, gullible person. I will fall for anything. So when I was an 18-year-old and was assigned to read “A Modest Proposal,” of course I believed that...
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