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Lori Freeman

The Death of English Departments? - 1 views

www.theamericanscholar.org/line-of-the-english-department

English

shared by Lori Freeman on 04 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Lori Freeman on 04 Aug 10
     
    A student sent this to me from Yale. The American Scholar is a great resource. This suggests reasons for why students are not selecting English as their majors anymore.
  • Lori Freeman on 04 Aug 10
     
    English Teachers: To tempt you further to read this amazing article: "But we can, we must, do better. At stake are the books themselves and what they can mean to the young. Yes, it is just a literary tradition. That's all. But without such traditions, civil societies have no compass to guide them. That boy falling out of the sky is not to be neglected."
Keith Dennison

Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Featured wiki: BookTrailersforReaders - 0 views

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wikispaces best practices English reading

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  • Keith Dennison on 03 Aug 10
     
    This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with
Cathy Stutzman

I learn, you learn, we all learn! (80) - 1 views

www.netvibes.com/hhersey

blogging netvibes HC1:1

shared by Cathy Stutzman on 04 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Cathy Stutzman on 04 Aug 10
     
    A class netvibes site for Honors English II that collected individual blogs and a class blog
Heather Hersey

The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An "Authentic Audience" | Larry Ferlazzo's... - 0 views

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audience ferlazzo writing publishing

shared by Heather Hersey on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • I’ve been spending time over this past year reflecting and evaluating on how I can be more effective in teaching writing — both to English Language Learners and my mainstream ninth-grade students.  In fact, all the English teachers at our school have been doing the same thing.  Our school got a grant that enabled us to contract with the California Writing Project to do ongoing teacher development.
Tom McHale

High School Teachers Combat "Txt-spk" by Encouraging Blogging - 0 views

www.socialtimes.com/...xt-spk-by-encouraging-blogging

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  • Tom McHale on 27 Jul 10
     
    StageofLife.com thinks the answer to this phenomenon lies not in pushing against new social media, but rather embracing it: by encouraging high school students to blog. StageofLife.com is a website for the generation growing up with social media embedded into their daily lives to meet, share stories, and learn about those in their generation and other stages of life. It is an educational resource as well, offering lesson plans and contest ideas to educators. One of the most recent creative writing lesson plans is quite innovative: its goal is to break students out of the restrictive environment of 140-character word limits while at the same time promote the use of social media in the classroom. StageofLife.com believes that blogging and other social media is an integral part of the lives of current high school students, and should be incorporated into English classes around the country.
Lori Freeman

What is Friendship? - 0 views

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English Friendship

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  • Lori Freeman on 04 Aug 10
     
    This article looks at the changing definition and nature of friendship in the digital world. It reviews the effect that Facebook has on friendships and what it means to be a friend today.
Lori Freeman

Handouts for Writing Instruction - 3 views

www.unc.edu/...index.html

Writing English

shared by Lori Freeman on 15 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lori Freeman on 15 Sep 10
     
    Great Website for writing instruction
Michele B.

Why Aren't GMO Foods Labeled? - 0 views

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english food

shared by Michele B. on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • there has been cross-breeding of natural crops and species with those that have been genetically engineered
  • G.E. alfalfa cross-pollinates organic alfalfa, that alfalfa is no longer organic; if a G.E. salmon egg is fertilized by a wild salmon, or a transgenic fish escapes into the wild and breeds with a wild fish
  • the biotech industry has spent over half a billion dollars on G.M.O. lobbyists in the last decade
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  • an older ABC poll found that a majority of Americans believe that G.M.O.’s are unsafe, even more say they’re less likely to buy them, and a more recent CBS/NYT poll found a whopping 87 percent — you don’t see a poll number like that too often — wants them labeled.
  • A majority of our food already contains G.M.O.’s, and there’s little reason to think more isn’t on the way. It seems our “regulators” are using us and the environment as guinea pigs, rather than demanding conclusive tests.
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