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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Enid Baines

Enid Baines

Louis Zamperini's epic life may finally get its Hollywood movie - Press-Telegram - 16 views

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    Loved "Unbroken." Hard to put down. Glad to see it headed for the big screen w/Angelina Jolie as director.
Enid Baines

Mark Bazer: Rebecca Skloot on Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks... and Getting Kicked Ou... - 50 views

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    Video of Rebecca Skloot regarding "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Enid Baines

'Big Sur' Movie Trailer: Kerouac Returns To Theaters In 2013 - 30 views

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    Also a review of "On the Road."
Enid Baines

What English classes should look like in Common Core era - 99 views

  • The National Assessment for Educational Progress does not measure performance in English class. It measures performance in reading, reading across the disciplines and throughout the school day.
  • research reports that young people ages 8-18 consume on average 7 ½ hours of entertainment media per day: playing video games, watching television, and social networking. These are the same students who tell their teachers they don’t have time to read. Children have time. Unfortunately like Bartleby, they would simply prefer not to.
Enid Baines

New college application questions encourage creative thinking - latimes.com - 40 views

  • "So where is Waldo, really?"
  • It is the kind of mind-stretching, offbeat or downright freaky essay question that is becoming more common these days as colleges and universities seek to pierce the fog of students' traditional self-aggrandizing essays detailing their accomplishments and hardships.
  • s Angeles, tackled another Chicago question. It poses physicist Werner Heisenberg's claim that "you c
Enid Baines

Enid Baines | Scoop.it - 33 views

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    My License to Read blog I created to use as a model for students has taken on a life of its own.
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    A student remarked that he liked getting to know the person behind the teacher and that's what my posts apparently showed him. (I refer to my blog in class occasionally so he knew how to find it. I don't make them read it!)
Enid Baines

T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a ... - 29 views

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    Audio of T.S. Eliot reading Prufrock
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