Free-Range Thinking

Yesterday and today studens began creating notebook charts to showcase “Grammar Hot Crimes.” There are 16 crimes and students have begun copying each slide to create colorful, customized charts in their notebooks. The first “crimes” must be handwritten. If the copy that results can be improved upon, students may create a word processed chart. The [...]

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For your homework on Monday and Tuesday night, after reading “A Painful Course to College,” I asked you to write a paragraph on the following:
What are your plans for your education after high school?  Would you like to go far away? Why? Why not?  Would your family be supportive?  Yes. No. Why?
I really, really, really [...]

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For your daily writing, keep in mind these helpful hints:
Do:

words on the page
experiment
lies (fiction)
truth
description
poems
song lyrics
dialogue

Don’t:
….not write
….disturb others
….talk
….stop writing.
The bottom line journal writing question: are there words on the page?
Remember: others will read your words. Consider your audience. Do not be so private that you are reluctant to share what you have written [...]

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Hi everyone,
I wanted to make sure you could see a copy of the Jobs List and a model for the business letter. So both are available here. BusinessLetter.docJob List.doc

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Hello everyone!
I want to make the posts as easy to read as is possible for everyone. I’m going to begin separating your instructions and posts according to your class period. Help me out by clicking on the right period for your class on the list on the left. Just click on the Period you [...]

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This was a busy, exciting week—our first week of the 2006-7 year. Students seemed alive to all that was going on. Yes, the campus does feel crowded. Our first year was 470 or so students; last year we jumped to about 790; then, this year…we are at capacity, almost 1000. Every [...]

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Try talking to me over the computer. It’s pretty easy. Follow this link to Vaestro. When you get there, click on my topic and listen. Then, click on reply and talk. You will need a computer with a microphone.
http://www.vaestro.com/viewforum-279

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If you haven’t blogged before, it is sometimes easy to start with answering somebody else’s question. Here’s one for you: Malcolm X once said that “education is the first step towards solving any problem that exists anywhere on this earth…” Has your education solved problems? created some? Tell about it so far.
(To answer the question, [...]

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