Skip to main content

Home/ newliteracies/ Group items tagged american

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
jennprior

Raising Classroom Standards Means Ramping Up Non-Fiction - WNYC - 2 views

www.wnyc.org/...ards-means-ramping-non-fiction

Non-Fiction middle school

shared by jennprior on 27 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Peynado’s teachers are assigning more editorials this year because the state is phasing in new national standards, which put a greater emphasis on non-fiction. Yuet Chu leads a network of 23 city schools including University Neighborhood Middle School. She notes that various researchers have found American students read texts that are too easy. This leaves them unprepared for the more complex skills they need later.
    • jennprior
      jennprior on 27 Mar 14
       
      Non-fiction reading requires a different set of reading and interpreting skills.  They also help students develop their thoughts and opinions on subjects.  This can lead to great verbal or written discourse. 
  • jennprior on 27 Mar 14
     
    Good article about introducing non-fiction at the middle school.
  • Kristen Oberheim on 29 Mar 14
     
    Great article - thanks Jen!
klytle

History of the White House | Scholastic.com - 1 views

www.scholastic.com/...history-white-house

shared by klytle on 30 Oct 14 - No Cached
    • klytle
      klytle on 30 Oct 14
       
      I never knew that George Washington also lived in NYC and Philadelphia.
    • klytle
      klytle on 30 Oct 14
       
      That is cool that they had a contest, I wish I could have participated.
  • The first two were in New York City. The third was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • ...15 more annotations...
    • klytle
      klytle on 30 Oct 14
       
      That explains why it is called the White House.
  • Both Maryland and Virginia gave land for the new capital. The land was on the border of the North and the South. At that time, there were no western states! George Washington named the land the District of Columbia, in honor of Christopher Columbus.
    • klytle
      klytle on 30 Oct 14
       
      I don't think that this is the case anymore.
  • John Adams, the second president of the United States, moved into a cold, damp White House in November 1800.
  • Washington, D.C., is one of the only cities in the world that was designed before it was built.
  • Next it was time to decide what kind of house to build for the president. Thomas Jefferson suggested having a contest. He advertised the contest in newspapers across the country. A committee picked a simple but elegant design by James Hoban, a young Irish American architect.
  • The first stone was laid on October 13, 1792. It took eight years
  • to finish enough of the house to make it livable.
  • Washington decided to put the Capitol Building on a hill at one end of the city, and the president's house on a hill at the other end.
  • The White House was the largest residential house in America!
  • Madison's wife, Dolley
  • War of 1812
  • would not leave the house until two men agreed to take down the famous portrait of George Washington.
  • the picture that Dolley saved is the only thing that has been in the White House since it first opened.
  • repainted white to cover the smoke marks. People began to call it the White House.
  • klytle on 30 Oct 14
     
    History of the White House
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page