Category: English and Language Arts

  • Sumer of Adobe 2020

    For the summer, I decided to give myself the task of completing at least one creativity project every week. I did give myself some lattitude and decided that it could be anything digital or physical but it could not just be blog posts or writing. As a result, I spent a lot of my free…

  • Happy Bloomsday!

    If you are looking for a beast of a summer read, Ulysses by James Joyce is a great place to start today. Even, I must admit I’ve read it in segments -segmentation of the storytelling makes it easier to approach according to others- over the years but never in one reading.

  • ISTE 2018 Presentation

    My presentation focuses on using Google Drawing to develop Found and Black-out Poetry from keystone reading sources. This is a great reflection process for ELA and Social Studies classrooms.

  • Book Review Preview

    The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb My rating: 4 of 5 stars The following is an excerpt from one of my summer reads: When I saw this book, three months ago, it was part of the KBA Bluegrass Award list for 2016.…

  • A Little Bit of Extra…

    Amazon has a new list of books to read. After viewing the list I was really surprised by how many modern YA novels are there instead of the great classics. I’ve added the link below if you need a list to pick from after you’ve finished summer readings, or to get you started. Amazon.com: 100…

  • ENG10 Poetry Unit

    Follow the jump link to see all of the work due for the poetry unit. Google Doc: link