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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Young Adult Literature or The Hunger Games Explained
My college classmate Ann Jacobus writes and writes about Young Adult literature, and I got the OK to re-purpose the below piece that she’d written for my college class’s newsletter. You can find Ann at www.annjacobus.com and www.readerkidz.com. Here goes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Parents, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged ann jacobus, Cory Doctorow, feed, harry potter, kidlit, Little Brother, M.T. Anderson, Marcus Zuzak, Nancy Farmer, patrick ness, The Book Thief, The House of the Scorpion, the hunger games, The Knife of Never Letting Go, twilight, young adult literature
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Collaboration’s Key When Planning Common Core Implementation
My recent piece for ASCD on Common Core implementation at Lexington School District One near Columbia, SC. You can also read it here. It is not surprising that school districts are finding that effective Common Core State Standards implementation is … Continue reading
Watching Jaws
We watched Steven Spielberg’s Jaws three times last weekend – once with a group of rowdy 5th graders but the other two times allowed for better viewing, actually stopping and backing up the DVD, to deconstruct and marvel at some … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged jaws, Richard Dreyfuss, robert shaw, roy scheider, show me the way to go home, steven spielberg
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