Gymnasts are Amazing!!!
http://annejosephson.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/20-thoughts-that-go-through-your-head-before-a-gymnastics-meet-parent-gymnast-coach-judge-and-meet-director-perspectives/...
Loved this article…Middle Earth Turns 100
If you haven’t even tried to read them, it’s never too late. Read the best of the best. http://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/middle-earth-turns-100/...
Monday Madness Approaches
Student websites are active. This means that our classroom is a Writer’s Workshop. Everything you will ever turn in will be brought to your groups for peer proofing, editing,...
Teachable Moment #2
In my absence, I try to connect in some way what is going on in my life with you all. I will be out for a very sacred holiday...
A Look Ahead
MAP, or Measures of Academic Progress, testing in our classroom is ending tomorrow, and that means the real deal is about to begin. Student accountability never meant as much...
Vocabulary List #2 -Vote, Share, Study, Test
Posters are ready for you near the turn-in trays when you walk into the room. Vocabulary List #2 is set. Here it is. I closed the voting at 9:39PM....
Teachable Moment
In the event of my absence, I will create opportunities for teachable moments. In this instance, I am heading to the doctor with my oldest daughter. What is the...
2014 Young Explorers Global Essay Competition
These essays are due THURSDAY, September 19th, 2014. To print this slide, click it, then click the image on the next page for a full size copy.To strengthen Southwest’s...
ANOTHER Alternate Article of the Week: 9/11 Fiasco? – A Void in the History of September 11th
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/twenty-eight-pages...
Alternate Articles of the Week
This week’s article on Kelly Gallagher’s site may have more import for your parents, Ask them to read it with you if you read it, talk about it when...
Possible AotW – And now for something completely REAL!!! How a Bipartisan Education Reform Effort Became the Biggest Conservative Bogeyman Since Obamacare | Mother Jones
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/common-core-education-reform-backlash-obamacare...
Vocabulary List #1
Here’s the list: ¨Chide22 28% ¨Heedlessly23 29% ¨Sentimentality25 32% ¨Billowing26 33% ¨Evangelical23 29% ¨Picturesque27 35% ¨Disproportionate52 67% ¨Aversion27 35% ¨Implausibility19 24% ¨Omen20 26% Have your voice count!!!...
Fiction Introduction – Raymond’s Run
Focus on PLOT – This assignment was pulled out of the INTERACTIVE READERS. Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bumbara For 10 minutes in class, pp 3-5 – QUIET GROUP...
Vocabulary Word Lists Generated from Student Texts
We talked briefly about why it is SO important to have a deep and varied vocabulary. Then we got introduced tot he method by which we will generate vocabulary...