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I’m correcting quizzes for Treasure Island, the novel we are currently reading. Each question requires an essay/short answer response.
The first question is: Describe Treasure Island, including the hills and vegetation.
This is one of the responses:
“Treasure Island has like trees and like different types and there is like a stream in […]

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A story coming out of Orlando, Florida today outlines with broad strokes how Middle School teacher, Kasey Goodin, was suspended for her recent creative use of duct tape in the classroom. Here is the actual lead for that story:
A middle school teacher accused of using duct tape to bind a student to his desk […]

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. . .but still not as magical as the “P” word (no not “please”, the other one).

We’re in the middle of a unit on persuasion right now. I love this unit because it’s so rich–it’s a great topic from which to teach so many cool things. Yes, students learn persuasive techniques so […]

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This morning, during announcements, I learned that this week we are celebrating/recognizing:
Breast Cancer Awareness
National Bus Safety Week
Red Ribbon Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
I thought that wasn’t nearly enough.  So this week I will also be celebrating on a daily basis:
Today, Monday, Oct. 22: National Nut Day
Tuesday Oct. 23: National Mole Day and Tv […]

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A perfect example of how language is alive and growing. I learned two new words today.
Floweremabob–Noun. A word for anything you can’t think of the name of; used in place of thingamabob, used most often for things like this.
As in: “Hand me that flowermabob over there.”
Definitionize–Verb. To write the definition of a […]

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Just a quick one tonight. Because when it comes to teaching and learning Powerpoint, I couldn’t have said it better myself:

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I’m one of those kind of guys constantly thinking about growth, goals and change. You know, personal development stuff. So it’s safe to say that I have quite a few goals–some of them lofty (at least from where I’m sitting now )
These goals fall into all kinds of different categories so that hopefully, if […]

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Not knowing the context (or even the validity) of this picture, it’s hard to comment, but that didn’t stop these people. At the time I posted this, there were already 188 comments. Some of them heated.
Like these:

 
IMHO, that’s honestly a student’s failure to study! That’s such a simple mathematics problem and he […]

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How’d that headline grab ya?
I bet (though you may not be aware) it got “grabbier” after that one little word—the smallest one–“or”.
As if you can’t to both. Like you have to choose.
It’s like this: When it comes to matters of faith or spirituality (or whatever you want to call it), I think there are […]

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Our girls have a routine and checklist that they work through every night before bed. One of the things on the list is to get out the clothes that they are going to wear in the morning. It’s a good routine. The girls ask what the weather is going to be like […]

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