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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Rerun</title>
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		<title>The Titanic Finally Really Sinks! (Also: Sidekicks.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First year ever! No Titanic! O. M. G. The average is about 7 or 8. The record was the 1997-98 school year with, count&#8217;em, 27. There was a renaissance in 2010, with about 20. I&#8217;m talking about research papers. And finally, for the first time since I started at this school in 1993, I won&#8217;t have to plow through another &#8220;all about the Titanic&#8221; nightmare. O. M. G. I&#8217;m just going to savor that thought for awhile&#8230; until some clown &#8220;can&#8217;t find ANYTHING&#8221; on his/her topic, and I cave and say, &#8220;Just do the Titanic.&#8221; Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year once again, the dreaded (by me) research paper. You might ask how I managed to sink the Titanic as a research topic, even as James Cameron and other rich guys celebrate the 100th anniversary of the giant metaphor. I didn&#8217;t use it as an example topic. I went through dozens of topics, both good and bad, as we played &#8220;Is This a Good Topic or Not?&#8221; for a week and a half, and I assiduously made sure I never even mentioned the Titanic as a topic, good or bad. My whole thing on research is that I HATE the &#8220;all about&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Flower? Phew.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is from January &#8217;09; back in the early(ish) days of this here blog. I was just reminded today when one genius thought I was asking for a paragraph of 150 pages, instead of 150 words. &#8220;I thought that was a pretty long paragraph&#8230; I mean really.. And you&#8217;re always telling us to use paragraphs, so I thought, whoa, and then I thought, hey, and then-&#8221; We were reading Tom Sawyer then too. Yesterday, we were going over chapter three, where Tom sees Becky (&#8220;The Adored Unknown&#8221;) for the first time, and falls in love. He shows off for her and she tosses a pansy over her shoulder. They always ask why he picks it up with his foot. &#8220;Being a boy, he can&#8217;t be seen picking up a flower. So he&#8217;s trying to be all nonchalant about it&#8221; There are also always some that ask what a pansy is, even after I just get through with my previous response. This time though, a girl in my friendly class says, &#8220;Oh, now I get it. It was a pansy, like the flower. Phew. I was a little worried about this book. I kept wondering.&#8221; &#8220;Why?&#8221; &#8220;I thought it said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Groove Yet (Also: The Giver and No Homework Returns)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you guys (remember the old Electric Company intro: &#8220;Hey You Guys!&#8221;), but I&#8217;m having trouble finding any sort of groove so far in 2012. The kids are all dopey and spacey (I know; how can you tell?), nothing much is happening around school, my student servant doesn&#8217;t even have much to do right now, things are just feeling &#8230;weird. &#8230; They seem to be enjoying The Giver though. I have a Q/A each day before the reading quiz, and the questions have been coming fast and furious. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know what elephants are? What are they, stupid?&#8221; &#8220;Are all the kids adopted?&#8221; &#8220;So you don&#8217;t get to pick who you marry?&#8221; (Ask Depeesha over there in the third row.) &#8220;Why do they call it a family unit?&#8221; (What? They&#8217;ve never seen the Coneheads?) &#8216;Why aren&#8217;t there any cars?&#8221; (THAT sounds like utopia to me.) &#8220;Why is this book weird?&#8221; (I know you are, but what am I?) &#8230; Regarding the discussion beginning over there on the right side: Mrs. M, I really want to read that book. I went to their web site and read their brief excerpts, which were no more than one sentence teasers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What about the butterflies?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stories of Seventh Grade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the second day of Christmas&#8230; I had been crabby for the first half of the week for many and various reasons: a &#8220;mama bear,&#8221; a moron or two, a faculty meeting, the brrrnesss of the weather lately&#8211;30 degrees on my bike to school every day this week&#8230;really? Really? I thought this was California&#8230; But today was full of laffs. aside: For some reason, I just really love spelling it that way and seeing it spelled that way. I don&#8217;t know why, I just smile every time I see it that way. Here&#8217;s one of today&#8217;s knee slappers. (I think I might need to save some of the others for days 9 or 10, if the well starts to run dry.) A few weeks ago, I found a stash of  the &#8220;consumable&#8221; workbooks that I thought we were out of, and we&#8217;re working (haha) our way through the &#8220;reading in the real world&#8221; type exercises. Yes I have blogged about this before, but instead of making you click the link to get the back story, I have conveniently included it below, along with the related &#8220;video,&#8221; which this lesson gives me an excuse to drag out each year. I&#8217;m sure my old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading and a Rerun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. Thanksgiving is over. Time for a new post. Well, I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230; I&#8217;ve been learning a lot about maintaining a thirty year old pinball machine. And, ummm, playing one. Digesting food. Seriously. I weighed myself TDay evening, and then again then next morning (barely&#8211;it was almost afternoon). Six pounds difference. I don&#8217;t know where it goes. Well, I guess I know where at least some of it goes. Trying to stay ahead of my video class. Since there aren&#8217;t as many hardware issues this quarter, things are moving along much more quickly. I have a couple of pairs who are two weeks ahead of last quarter. D&#8217;oh. Enjoying our 70+ degree weather. In November. Sorry. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I live here. Reading. Latest in progress: Damned (narrated from Hell by a 13 year old girl&#8230;there are certain contexts when a 13 year old girl&#8217;s perspective is the best one to have), by Chuck Palahniuk, the same guy who wrote Fight Club (never read it or seen it&#8230; I might now). Damned funny. Sorry.  1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (an epic in three parts totaling 1000+ pages &#8212; I&#8217;m about 1/4 of the way in). I love his work. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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