Magnifying the Universe
Ok. This is just too cool to not share with everyone. Scope and perspective all in one. For the visual learner and everyone else. http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/...
Seagulls & Horror Projects
Quick update. Check it. Vocabulary List #4 – Student-Driven Vocabulary – POSTPONED to begin NEXT WEEK Forming NOW!! Vote tonight. – NEXT MONDAY NIGHT Posters are due by NEXT Thursday. VISS...
More Article of the Week (AotW) Options
You are all signed up for NEWSELA . . . You need to sign yourselves into your own PERIODS. Here are the details for you all to sign up...
Extra Credit Opportunity!!! Twelve Haunting American Short Stories to Read This Halloween | Electric Literature
And if that (our recently completed unit composed of horror and suspense tales) wasn’t enough, pick one of these for an extra credit approach paper grade. Yes, they are...
Website Details
A number of you have not satisfied the basics of being a publicly visible presence. Website Titles – Your title has to refer to you (first or last name),...
J.K. Rowling Is Publishing A New Harry Potter Story On Halloween
Harry Potter fans have something to look forward to…http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/jk-rowling-publishing-a-new-harry-potter-story-for-halloween?bffb&s=mobile...
Fiction Unit – Horror & Suspense – Update
Our three week Fiction Unit is wrapping up. Over these weeks we have gradually . . . ever . . . so . . . slowly . . ....
Students’ About Me PAGES
This is what we started today. Come in with some ROUGH Draft material tomorrow. We are on the CHROMEBOOKS tomorrow....
The Literary United States: A Map of the Best Book for Every State | Brooklyn Magazine
Not sure what to read? Tour the country. http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-literary-united-states-a-map-of-the-best-book-for-every-state/...
Vocabulary List #3 – Vote, Share, Study, Test
LIST #3 is SET. If your word is on this list, then post the necessary essentials: Word, Part of Speech, Definition, Sentence from the Text, Book Title, Author, Page...
REMINDERS – Vocabulary List #2 TEST TOMORROW & The Tell-Tale Heart #9 POST
VOCABULARY LIST #2 TEST This is just to remind you all that the test that was originally scheduled for last Friday 10/3 WILL be given tomorrow 10/7. You have...
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...