From Larry Ferlazzo's tips blog. This is excellent! What are the events of the day that shaped the speech, given which words were uttered most often in it? How did his term match the tone/goals of his speech? Great potential!
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
July 17, 2009 One of the most exciting revelations at ALA last week was the Sunday panel that unveiled the inaugural AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. (If there was a Newbery kinda ceremony for the techie in many of us, this was it!). Intro and links to the list sites.
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
July 17, 2009 One of the most exciting revelations at ALA last week was the Sunday panel that unveiled the inaugural AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. (If there was a Newbery kinda ceremony for the techie in many of us, this was it!)
Abraham Lincoln Papers
presents Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his second inaugural address, an 1864 memo expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election, and more than 70,000 other images and transcriptions of letters, speeches, and writings from the 1850s through his presidency