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Coming November 23rd: "Write Beside Them" Book Club with Penny Kittle

Author, teacher, and EC Ning member Penny Kittle is currentlyt hosting our book club for her book Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing. Heinemann will offer free shipping through December 25th, using promotion code WBTNV9. Applebee and Langer's article in the June 2009 English Journal titled “What's happening in the teaching of writing?” points to troubling trends in writing instruction. Penny will help us move to address these issues in our own classrooms. Click here to read Penny's letter inviting all to join her.

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Meredith S

NCTE Resources 12 Replies

Started by Meredith S. Last reply by Steve J. Moore 1 hour ago.

Dave

Racoon Meat: How far will you go to show your kids you care? 5 Replies

Started by Dave. Last reply by Teresa Bunner 1 hour ago.

Michael Umphrey

The Ethics of Authencity: Chapter 9: An Iron Cage? 50 Replies

Started by Michael Umphrey. Last reply by Bill Maniotis 2 hours ago.

Chuck

Literary Magazines anyone? 2 Replies

Started by Chuck. Last reply by Meredith S 3 hours ago.

Michael DiMasi

To Kill a Mockingbird 3 Replies

Started by Michael DiMasi. Last reply by Jacque Helms 3 hours ago.

Heather Corman

Disappointed in Edublogs 10 Replies

Started by Heather Corman. Last reply by Jacque Helms 3 hours ago.

Meredith S

NCTE Reflections 22 Replies

Started by Meredith S. Last reply by Deirdre Zongker 6 hours ago.

Jessica Marie Egan

How many pages per night? Assigning outside reading. 17 Replies

Started by Jessica Marie Egan. Last reply by Eric T. MacKnight 7 hours ago.

Kathleen Jensen

Top 10 things I’ll be sharing with my department from NCTE 7 Replies

Started by Kathleen Jensen. Last reply by Stacey Kerr 8 hours ago.

Justin Greene

Teaching Vocabulary 1 Reply

Started by Justin Greene. Last reply by Tara Braverman 10 hours ago.

Josephine Pedone

Need HELP with an assignment! 1 Reply

Started by Josephine Pedone. Last reply by Erin Maney 11 hours ago.

Eileen Williams

MacBeth - any good activities before starting to read? 18 Replies

Started by Eileen Williams. Last reply by Eileen Williams 14 hours ago.

Bev

Incorporating Art and Music in the English classroom 38 Replies

Started by Bev. Last reply by Meredith S 14 hours ago.

Eileen Williams

Does class size matter? 21 Replies

Started by Eileen Williams. Last reply by Eileen Williams 14 hours ago.

Kathy

Need Recommendations for Book Study at CTE School 6 Replies

Started by Kathy. Last reply by Kathy 15 hours ago.

Blog Posts

Bill Maniotis

How will the push for Common Standards and Assessments affect us?

Posted by Bill Maniotis on November 24, 2009 at 8:43pm

Steve J. Moore

Initial NCTE Reflection

Posted by Steve J. Moore on November 24, 2009 at 8:31pm — 1 Comment

Paul W. Hankins

From Room 210 in Southern Indiana: Book Talking in the Classroom

Posted by Paul W. Hankins on November 24, 2009 at 7:30pm

Hamilton Salsich

BEAUTIFUL AND SIMPLE

Posted by Hamilton Salsich on November 24, 2009 at 12:56pm

Dennis O'Connor

Kermit the Frog Search Challenge (Information Literacy Games)

Posted by Dennis O'Connor on November 24, 2009 at 12:34pm

Robin Gatling

Seeking NBPTS support

Posted by Robin Gatling on November 24, 2009 at 5:24am — 2 Comments

Alan Sitomer

The exhilarated exhaustion

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 24, 2009 at 5:00am — 5 Comments

tgraff11

A Poem of Thanksgiving

Posted by tgraff11 on November 23, 2009 at 5:22pm — 6 Comments

Cathy P

student sensitivity

Posted by Cathy P on November 23, 2009 at 5:00pm

Jack

Your Thanksgiving Brainypics :)

Posted by Jack on November 23, 2009 at 3:00pm

Hamilton Salsich

SWEET CONVERSE

Posted by Hamilton Salsich on November 23, 2009 at 11:59am

Dennis O'Connor

How to Introduce the 6-Traits

Posted by Dennis O'Connor on November 23, 2009 at 11:11am

Dennis O'Connor

Wordle: Play with words!

Posted by Dennis O'Connor on November 23, 2009 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Jack

Brainypics: Week 8 Winners

Posted by Jack on November 23, 2009 at 9:00am

Teri Lesesne

thoughts on NCTE

Posted by Teri Lesesne on November 23, 2009 at 7:53am

Susanne Nobles

Still Learning: Next Installment on Diigo

Posted by Susanne Nobles on November 23, 2009 at 6:36am

Alan Sitomer

Teaching teens is good stuff

Posted by Alan Sitomer on November 23, 2009 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Lisa Park

NCTE: Sunday session with Wilhelm, Sitomer, Burke

Posted by Lisa Park on November 22, 2009 at 9:04pm — 1 Comment

Paul W. Hankins

A Fanboy's Letter of Gratitude. Still a Fanboy. . .but a Grateful Fanboy. . .

Posted by Paul W. Hankins on November 22, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Rachel C.

NCTE= fantastic

Posted by Rachel C. on November 22, 2009 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

 
 

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Jim Burke replied to Penny Kittle's discussion 'Let the writing begin! #2 (part two... keep talking, but a new thread)' in the group ECN Book Group: Write Beside Them
Thanks for your thoughts, Mr. Alan. Let's all work to keep our discussion related to Penny and her work as this is not a general forum. The Management
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Teresa Bunner commented on Steve J. Moore's blog post 'Initial NCTE Reflection'
It was big and it was bold! But I'm very glad you came! Wonderful to see people in person and not just the small square of a profile picture. This was not my first conference and I, too, am still processing. I think that is okay. Our brains will ...
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katherine martinez castillo replied to Joy Evans's discussion 'Monster by Walter Dean Myers' in the group Teaching Texts
This is awesome input...thanks so much! Have a wonderful holiday week all!!
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Steve J. Moore Made an Amazon list of Carol Jago's books from her talk: http://amzn.com/w/1AR5OBVQNA532
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Steve J. Moore replied to Meredith S's discussion 'NCTE Resources'
Thank you so much for this list and your talk! I just made an Amazon list with these books so it will be easier for people to access them.
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Teresa Bunner replied to Dave's discussion 'Racoon Meat: How far will you go to show your kids you care?'
Thanks, Dave! I tend to go out of my way for kids often. And I know that often I will get nothing in return, sometimes not even thanks. But my hope is that if I can be the one adult who takes their time to help, if I show them they are important e...
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My 9th grade alternative ed students' first digital composition. The culmination of a unit on choices and consequences. Thanks to all my teacher friends who inspired me to look beyond ppt! Thanks, Meredith for the patient tech coaching!
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Bill Maniotis added a blog post
Carol Jago has lent her voice to a critique of the Common Standards that were recently adopted by the NGA. There is a great critique included here: http://www.edexcellence.net/index.cfm/news_stars-by-which-to-navigate-scanning-national-and-intern...
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Renee Moore replied to Kate Stevens's discussion 'MLA Research paper' in the group Teaching Writing
I teach high school and college students, and with both groups, the major challenge in research writing is learning how to summarize or paraphrase information they locate from any outside source. Any body have some good ideas on helping students w...
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Steve J. Moore added a blog post
As a new teacher, I fancy myself an expert at being overwhelmed. I find myself inundated most days with involuntary illusions of industry (if it’s wrong of me to alliterate so copiously, I don’t want to be right). In other words, I make a strong e...
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Bill Maniotis replied to Michael Umphrey's discussion 'The Ethics of Authencity: Chapter 9: An Iron Cage?'
I'm a real fan of Mr. Finn, and Ms. Ravitch. Here is a great resource put out by Finn and Ravitch a few years ago: http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=372
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Would you please send me the powerpoint as well? Thanks!
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That great pedagogical tool, YouTube. It has really saved me in the purchasing of obscure videos. However, I still have to have my Tex Avery's Screwball Classics in order to introduce Of Mice and Men. . .long live VHS. . .
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Hilary Short replied to Shay K's discussion 'I need a hero :)' in the group AP Lit and Language
That is awesome! I wasn't able to locate a copy of the tape, but...I may have found it on the next best thing....YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEPSIAkmzAE Thanks for the tip!
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Alan Sitomer replied to Penny Kittle's discussion 'Let the writing begin! #2 (part two... keep talking, but a new thread)' in the group ECN Book Group: Write Beside Them
Kelly, I think you nail it when you say that testing mania is a culprit. I mean the more schools get demonized for low test scores, the more test scores become the tail that wags every other dog on a campus. I was talking with a friend's 4rth gra...
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Any suggestions for poems that could be incorporated into a unit on poetry for Year 11 Lit students?
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Horror Genre Unit
Hi everyone, I'm trying to design a unit on Horror for our Year 10 students and I'm having trouble working out where to start. The final product is going to be a folio of creative writing pieces but I'm finding myself getting overwhelmed trying t...
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Kelly Gallagher replied to Penny Kittle's discussion 'Let the writing begin! #2 (part two... keep talking, but a new thread)' in the group ECN Book Group: Write Beside Them
Great strand thus far. I can't specifically answer to pages 1-19 because I left the book (which I have read) on my desk at school, but reading the strand brings a couple of thoughts to mind: 1) There is a huge chasm between assigning writing and ...
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