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  • English: Taming of the Shrew/10Things I Hate About You

    We began our short week today and our English class is begining a three day viewing of 10 Things I Hate About You. Students will fine links to the worksheet TameShrew about the original play here. (Wiki) Complete the Character comparison chart. Create a similarity t-chart between the play and movie. List scenes that were… Read more

  • Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post

    Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post. Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley… Read more

  • Book Review: Science Fiction : A Historic Anthology

    Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology by Eric S. Rabkin My rating: 4 of 5 stars By far, the best collection on the market before the millennials appeared on the shelves. If you are looking for a good starter reader begin here and then move into either Bradbury, Heinlein, or Asimov next. They are all in… Read more

  • ReBlog of Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools

    This is an excerpt from CoolCat Teacher’s Blog on Facebook and its new reality in the classroom space. I highly recommend everyone follow the pingback at the bottom of my excerpt and read the entire article. Great work on a complicated and touchy subject in some schools. Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our… Read more

  • Book Review: The Hobbit

    The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first read this novel in March of 1991. I had to do a book report about a novel I had never read. On a whim, I asked the Librarian, at the County Branch near our house, what was good… Read more