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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Literary Stuff</title>
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		<title>Playing God (Part One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out of action for family bidness tomorrow and Friday, so today was my last day of 2009.  I accidentally leaked the info early to one period, (the girls&#8217; club) so they brought snacks today and sorta forced me into a &#8220;party&#8221; of sorts. I have never been able to resist a good snickerdoodle, or two, or ten. So that meant that I had to shorten things up in the other periods too&#8230;so it was sort of a nutty day today. But in the 2 1/2 days I had to work with this week&#8230; (Aside: I&#8217;m breaking a perfect record of never having showed a movie in class, ever in 20 years. But this time I&#8217;m having the sub roll the cheesy Outsiders movie tomorrow and Friday while I&#8217;m gone. They&#8217;ve been begging for weeks, and I&#8217;ve been telling them to &#8220;wake up&#8221; from the dream, but this will be my little Christmas present to them.) &#8230;we did a little Giver epilogue and what-have-you. Yesterday, we discussed a few &#8220;literary&#8221; type questions. #4. The denouement (resolution) of  The Giver is when Jonas slides down the hill on the sled with Gabriel.  a) True  b) False Trick Question! FALSE! There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Material, and OMG, Groups!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been testing some new material lately. We finished Outsiders last week, and since S. E. Hinton managed to cram an example into the book of pretty much every single literary term we&#8217;re supposed to teach, I finally made a worksheet. And some new literary terms questions based on The Outsiders. (One, two, three) (Advertising: I updated my Outsiders CPS clicker database to include the three new quizzes about literary terms (30 new questions based on the book), AND three 20-question Challenge Boards. The CPS database is the only place you can get the answers to all the Outsiders quiz questions on the website. Hint. Hint. Go to clickers.mrcoward.com.) We played Jeopardy last Thursday as a finale to The Outsiders. Actually, now that I have the clickers, I&#8217;ve been using the built-in feature called Challenge Boards. (Here&#8217;s a screenshot.) You get four categories with 5 questions each, with game point values from 10 to 50. You take previous questions you have used, and drag them into the categories and amounts. Since I have waaay more than 20 questions, we do multiple rounds. I use this as a quiz grade instead of having a final exam (they also do a project). [...]]]></description>
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