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~ has great writing prompts to give you ideas for your blog posts.   Each day they have different prompts to respond to.  I have collected some of the prompts from last week that were used. Check out the site if you need inspiration for blog posts. Wednesday, Sep 1, 2010 What’s your favorite place in [...]

Your assignment is to create meaty sentences with elements that we can see, hear, taste, feel and smell.   Take the following sentence and elaborate it with some details. Don’t forget to add the Who? What? When? Where? and Why? to the sentence to make it exciting.  Use descriptive words to help you.  Click here if [...]

It’s the greatest time of the year for us in Louisiana, It’s test prep season. Whoo Hoooooo. Yes, I know that technologically alllll year is test prep season, but those few weeks right before testing are the most intense. I constantly look for ways to use Web 2.0 tools and technology to help my students. [...]

Here is a poem from Nikki Giovanni All Eyes on You as I tossed and turned unable to achieve sleep unable to control anxiety unable to comprehend why 2Pac is not with us if those who lived by the sword died by the sword there would be no white men on earth if those who [...]

If you have not been able to check it out, go see the wonderful glogs produced by students from around the world.  Go to Greetings From the World to be amazzzed.

Next week you must select the stories that you will present for the class.  You must follow a set list of requirements to receive credit for the assignment. Short Story Setup 1st you must set up another blog or wiki that is designed around your chosen story. During Reading – Literature Circles these literature circles [...]

Look at the photo and use your imagination to create a story that explains what is present in the photo.  Consider the following questions: What does this photo look like? Who/What is doing what? Why? Where? How might an ancient civilization have explained it? Do you see the outstretched hands? What are they reaching for? [...]

Can you imagine if your face was stuck like that? Look at the photo and use your imagination to create a story that explains what is present in the photo.  Consider the following questions: What does this photo look like? Who/What is doing what? Why? Where? How might an ancient civilization have explained it? Meet [...]

Can you see the two monkeys? Look at the photos and use your imagination to create a story that explains what is present in the photo. Consider the following questions: What does this photo look like? Who/What is doing what? Why? Where? How might an ancient civilization have explained it? Meet in small groups and [...]

“‘I don’t like letting nobody…know I’m hungry,’” Lewis Roman. 13, says. He lives in Philadelphia, and “sleeps in one room with his mother, brothers, and sister while he goes to school and tries to have a normal teenage life,” according to a CBS News report. “Lewis told me about trying to fall asleep (and sometimes [...]