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James Miscavish

Writing exercises are a great way to both increase your skill as a writer and to genera... - 0 views

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  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    # Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write down the dialogue and add narrative descriptions of the speakers and actions as if you were writing a scene. # Write a 500-word biography of your life. # Write your obituary. List all of your life's acco
James Miscavish

Resources for Vocabulary Study - 1 views

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English literature shakespeare vocabulary

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  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    his is vocabulary material for 131 novels or short stories. Vocabulary words listed for each literary selection appear in the selection and are on The Shakespeare List . Tests and exercises are included for each selection. Anytime a teacher has students r
Leslie Healey

Op-Ed at 40 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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op ed SAT NYT

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  • Leslie Healey on 28 Sep 10
     
    too much in here to list. great source for critical reading and writing exercises, even SAT reivew
Julia Robert

Academic Writing Course - 13 views

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Academic Writing Course

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  • Julia Robert on 07 Feb 11
     
    Academic Writing Course,In the future you must give your students more specific study preparatory skills, not least the ability to acquire material in English in various disciplines: This book deals with all aspects of academic writing, through advice and exercises based on a wide range of material.
Adam Babcock

Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude - 15 views

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grammar

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  • Adam Babcock on 14 Mar 11
     
    free reference, presentations, exercises, printouts, etc on all sorts of grammar
Dana Huff

Evolving English Teacher: "How to Forge a Jane Austen Manuscript": Teaching Students Au... - 13 views

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english teaching style writing composition

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  • Dana Huff on 08 Jun 11
     
    Glenda teaches us how to teach students to mimic one of the masters of prose-Jane Austen. Mimicry is often a great writing exercise for students who need to examine style.
Suzanne Rogers

Common Core Implementation Workbook | PARCC - 19 views

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PARCC commoncorestandards implementation LISAAdmin

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  • Suzanne Rogers on 10 Jun 11
     
    The workbook uses a proven performance management methodology known as "delivery" to lay out clear action steps for states and districts. It provides relevant information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises for leadership teams to complete together. Regardless of your state's timeline, the workbook offers state and district leaders the means to plan for the CCSS and then drive successful implementation.
Adam Babcock

College Accept-tion to the Rule - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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  • 1. WARM-UP/DO-NOW: In their journals, students respond to the following (written on the board prior to class): “Imagine that you are a college admissions counselor. What would you want to know about each of your potential applicants to decide whether or not you should accept them to your college? Create a list of questions.” Students then share their responses. The teacher should write students’ questions on the board under the categories “Academics,” “Extracurricular,” “Career Goals,” “Talents,” “Personal Qualities,” and “Other.”
  • 3. Tell students that they will be writing letters to college admissions counselors to introduce themselves and to persuade the college to admit them. Students refer to the categories and questions from the initial brainstorming exercise and answer each question for themselves. This procedure will serve as pre-writing for the actual letter.
  • –If you were a college admissions officer, what would you want to know about each of your potential applicants to decide whether or not you should accept them to your college?
Todd Finley

Vocabulary Exercise - 11 views

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  • Todd Finley on 31 May 10
     
    Challenging vocabulary. Correct answers help feed the hungry.
Kristin Bergsagel

How To Do Things With Words : Learning Diversity - 4 views

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  • the RRSG theory of reading comprehension is predominantly cognitive rather than cultural. It depicts the text as an encoded representation of a specific situation.
  • Making and having meaning, then, transcend cognition and involve a commitment to values and the pursuit of ideals.
  • These moral qualities are essential to human life, yet they seem to be completely redundant in the case of the aforementioned reader of “the cat is on the mat.”
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  • Could it be that teachers who are allegedly so obstinately unfaithful to the received theory of reading comprehension do in fact apply it in their classrooms, but fail to achieve adequate outcomes because the theory fails to explain reading as a meaningful human activity?
  • the most authoritative theory of reading comprehension misleads her into performing a futile cognitive exercise.
  • namely, instruct students to read the text creatively by transforming it into a model for exploring ideas such as self-deception, hubris, or the unintended negative consequences of well-intended parenting.
  • it doesn’t address texts adequately as media of communication between purposeful, goal-oriented actors.
  • The meaning of a message, then, is its use by the interacting parties and is therefore always much more than a mental representation. When we treat words or statements as mere representations, we fail to communicate.
  • A theory that fails to enhance communication undermines education, because education is a special form of communication dedicated to the transmission of learning.
  • The words remain his rather than theirs, conveying facts about his dream rather than becoming resources useful to them. These readers have missed yet another opportunity to make sense of the history of their nation and of their own lives in relation to it.
  • hopeful vision coupled to a darker prophecy and a threatening message.
  • This reading, then, intertwines American political history with the history of literature in a way that renders the reader herself an active participant in their making.
  • creativity, diversity, and agency
  • Readers, we propose, ought to associate the meaning of the text with its use. The texts students typically read in school, more specifically, ought to be used for the purpose of exploring ideas. Reading for this purpose is necessarily a creative endeavor because it entails transforming the text into a model of inquiry into certain aspects of the reader’s life experiences.
  • In other words, because they use the text in diverse ways, its meaning varies accordingly.
  • What is at stake is nothing less than how students relate themselves to cultural achievements that have shaped the world in which they live and the society in which they gradually mature.
  • Conversely, education researchers in universities and other research institutes are often insufficiently familiar with how children learn at school, and therefore simply do not have an adequate understanding of the problems their research should solve
Brian Baron

Transcript | This American Life - 4 views

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  • the story I'm working on
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      Brian Baron on 05 Feb 16
       
      Right now it's just a story she's working on; the audience is separate. Within a short time frame, she'll bring the audience on board and we'll feel as though we're on the journey with her. 
  • apparently I do,
  • feels undignified
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  • Tyler
  • thing I learned from this exercise, which is no big shocker, I guess
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  • Here's the case I've been working on.
  • take a leak
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  • store. On the
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  • oosey-goose
  • obsession" is maybe too strong a word
  • That sounds like a good thing.
  • named Jay.
  • somebody is lying here. Maybe Adnan really is innocent. But what if he isn't? What if he did do it, and he's got all these good people thinking he didn't?
  • Detective This is a taped
  • Adnan's in a maximum security prison in western Maryland
  • is hour and change
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