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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Supplementary Materials</title>
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		<title>Soundz!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, I touted the beauty of The Timer and havoc one might wreak with it upon the psyches of sensitive seventh graders. This is just a quick update to that. The link at the end of this post will take you to a directory with my stash of timer sounds. You can go find your own on the net &#8212; look for .wav files &#8212; but here are some to get you started. Tips: Change the sounds at random intervals. (Read the Read Me file for how to. It&#8217;s easy.) Surreptitiously crank up the volume after the start sound, so that the alarm sound has maximum impact (sometimes literally). Try to be talking just before the time runs out, so that they are distracted when it does. Then casually finish your sentence after they scream. Say, &#8220;I never get tired of that,&#8221; after they fall out of their desks. (at the start) Say, &#8220;The clock&#8217;s running; your mouth shouldn&#8217;t be.&#8221; Say, &#8220;Excuse me, must be that breakfast burrito,&#8221; after the raspberry sound. After time expires, but before you reset, if you click go you get the start and alarm sounds back-to-back. Kinda fun if you choose your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Timer Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one isn&#8217;t exactly a rerun per se&#8230;let&#8217;s call it more of a rewrite&#8230; This year&#8217;s crew has been a bit more, shall we say, trying, than any in recent memory. They&#8217;re nice enough for seventh graders and all, but they are really frying my bacon this year. So I have to get my kicks where I can&#8230;to sort of&#8230;take the edge off. I devoted a short post to THE TIMER (AKA: THE CLOCK) way back when this whole blog thang started in &#8217;08, but lately The Timer has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance, so I thought I&#8217;d share the wealth again. Several years ago I started noticing that the incoming seventh graders were very used to getting as much time as they needed to finish warm ups and quizzes and such. The idea of a timed test or quiz was completely alien to them. I couldn&#8217;t cope. At the time, I was using a Gateway Destination setup with a 32&#8243; inch monitor and some fine speakers, so I went searching for a little countdown clock I could put in the corner of the screen to start training these kids to work with/against the clock. &#8220;How much time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrape that Mucus Off Your Brain. (Also: Now I&#8217;m the Straight Man.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Floss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science &#8220;lesson&#8221; today. It&#8217;s Friday, so that means the weekly test, the suspense over whether they will score the 28/40 necessary to avoid the dreaded SSI (when the results were displayed today, one girl who made the cut did about as much dancing as one could do while still remaining seated), and best of all, mental floss. Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain &#8212; Ween Every Friday before the test, we scrape the mucous off our brains by mental flossing with some trick questions, math tricks, logic puzzles, Wacky Wordies, and etc. They&#8217;re all extra credit, and guessing is encouraged. Some are tricks, and some ain&#8217;t, but if it looks like a trick, it probably is. Today &#8216;s set saw the return of  another here&#8217;s-an-example-of-why-it&#8217;s-so-hard-to-learn-to-spell-in-English: What&#8217;s so unusual about this sentence? (Be specific.) A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. (Hint: Read it out loud.) Since I know how most (of my) seventh graders seems to have math issues, I also used one of my old looks-like-math-but-really-isn&#8217;t questions. I don&#8217;t tell them it isn&#8217;t a math question until the two-minute warning. What property do 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More New Shtuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow&#8217;s a &#8220;teacher work day.&#8221; The kids start Tuesday. I have actually been trying to get into the groove a little earlier this year&#8230; I revamped my class expectations sheet(.pdf) this year. I had sort of gotten into a rut each year of basically changing the year (or maybe a cosmetic change or two) and that&#8217;s about it.  I decided there was too much fluff.  I added a more complete list of novels, I rewrote the intro section and highlighted some of the technology we use, I included the late work policy (finally! duh!), and I added the KBAR FAQ. Speaking of FAQ&#8217;s. I added some to my web page this year. I finally got tired of answering the same questions over and over (hmmm you&#8217;d think I would learn faster than my seventh graders), especially the ones about late work and extra credit. (The pickle recipe is the best ever!) Anyway, I will emphasize these pages at Back to School Night, and with any luck, answer fewer questions this year.]]></description>
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		<title>New Stuff Since Last Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a few new things to lay on the kids this year when we read The Outsiders. I found a groovy audio file that demonstrates the use of the word dig as a slang term. It comes from an old vinyl record called How to Speak Hip, and although it came out in 1959 (about 8 years before The Outsiders is set), it is still a very groovy way to show the kids how versatile and expressive the word dig is to Pony and the rest. The Meaning of the Word &#8220;Dig&#8221; So now I&#8217;m going to combine this with the poem &#8220;Motto&#8221; by Langston Hughes (that I already use as one of the intro pieces for The Outsiders), and then I&#8217;ll be busting a new let&#8217;s-see-how-they-write-at-the-beginning-of-the-year assignment on them. Go here for that. I also added a few new outside links to the Outsiders page. One is to the primetime TV lineup for 1967, another goes to the top music of the time, and another gives some good pop culture and technology references.]]></description>
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