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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Stories of Seventh Grade</title>
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	<description>Middle school teaching: Five shows a day, 180 days a year.</description>
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		<title>CSI?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I threaten to stop putting myself through this. As I have said before, let social studies or someone else teach the research paper. Let someone else slog through in-text citations. (&#8220;What? After every fact? There&#8217;s gonna be a ton of them.&#8221; Yes, I know.) Let someone else read another encyclopedia paper about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever it is&#8230;it ain&#8217;t working.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 05:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prologue: &#8220;Nancy&#8221; (she of fraternal twin fame) announced yesterday, &#8220;They changed my medicine, and I&#8217;m supposed to be able to pay attention better now.&#8221; Let&#8217;s see how that goes. Here on Earth. That dreaded time of year is at hand: Research. We&#8217;re going into the library next week, and we&#8217;re trying to get topics dialed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what I&#8217;m working with this year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 02:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[29 mo&#8217; day.  Never has that seemed so far away as this year. Here&#8217;s the sort of crowd I&#8217;m dealing with&#8230; We&#8217;ve been practicing with outlining in preparation for (shiver) research projects. More on that later. One of the in-class activities we did involved a brief excerpt (I actually got it from the textbook!) from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a webnews headline that read: &#8220;Twitter is the New CNN.&#8221; Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket? If Mr. Coward were to &#8220;tweet&#8221; his way through a typical day period (which is about as likely as, oh let&#8217;s see, Hell freezing over is too cliche, how about&#8230;Bill Gates going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Got Nothin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After almost 20 years of doing this job, I&#8217;d like to think I sort of know my way around the junior high psyche. Plus I remember 7th  and 8th grade like they were yesterday, and some might still accuse me of being a seventh grader yet. But every now and then&#8230;well, I got nothin&#8217;. Sometimes [...]]]></description>
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