EAGLE

https://www.louisianaeagle.org/pma/orca2/diag.htm

Figurative language bomb

http://www.schooltube.com/video/854e0df8d65eef8f3e89/Figurative-Language-Bomb

Ba-da-bing for the time when a writer's moment just isn't enough.

How to ba-da-bing a sentence

Ba-Where are yor feet?

da-What do you see?

bing-What do you think or hear or smell or touch?

Ba-da-bing is a Writer’s Notebook activity created by Gretchen Bernabei.

http://wc2008.wikispaces.com/BaDaBing

Avi's Five Secrets

Five Secrets to Good Writing!

One: Write! It's not writing until it's on the paper. Story telling is a great art, but it is not story writing.

Two: Rewrite! No one-ever--writes anything well the first time. The first draft can not be the last draft. (I rewrite my work fifty-sixty times--or more). Here's a tip: read your first draft, and if you think it's good, you are in trouble. But, if you read it and you see it's not that good, you are in great shape--to get going. The more you rewrite the better your writing will be.

Three: Write for a reader: Maybe you understand what you have written, but the writer's job is to have the reader understand it. Keep in mind: writers don't write writing, they write reading.

Four: Listen. Read your work out loud (pencil in hand) and it will let you hear your own writing. It will almost improve itself.

Five: Read, read, read. Reading is the key to good writing. The more you read, the better the writer you can be. You can NEVER read too much.

http://www.avi-writer.com/five_secrets_to_good_writing

Thanksgiving

from http://learningismessy.com/blog/



http://www.t2.com/waterbuffalo/

The Water Buffalo Movie
Is a modern classic and gives students a taste of what poverty really is (have tissue available). The video is about 7 minutes long and delivers a very powerful message about giving and what we have to be thankful for.



What the World Eats – Part 1
Is a feature done by Time magazine a few years back. It is a photo slideshow that simply shows what families in different parts of the world eat in a typical week and how much it costs. There are 4 parts to this now, so if part one isn’t enough for you search for the others, they are easy to find.

Razzle Dazzle Writing

http://edujourney.net/Writing/RD%20Writing.htm

4 Square Writing

Four Square Essay Food

View more presentations from Gayla Keesee.

Essential grammar rules webquest

http://imet.csus.edu/imet5/koreen/imetsites/282/student/index.htm

LEAP scoring rubric

iLEAP Writing Rubric

Keith Haring

"I had music hooked up to a big speaker while I was painting. Everyday was like a big block party."

Keith Haring

As I start this school year I thank Brian Andreas for qualifying my thoughts, "Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking", and on to the 2010-2011 school year.