This song reminded me of the Joad family and their struggles in California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJgg6APFO4http://
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Mayfair Reads Bookmarks
Hi Ms. Fletcher,Because the magenta on my printer isn't working I figured that you could at least view the bookmarks with the right colors here.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thinking about Neil Postman
I keep thinking about Postman as I listen to the news about the potential meltdown in the reactors in Fukushima after last Friday's 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, and think about them dropping water from military helicopters and shooting water cannons at cracks in the building, hoping the water will sort of pool near the super hot reactors.
NINE POINT OH-my-gawd earthquake.
Tsunami. 4000 dead, death toll expected to rise.
Nuclear reactor MELT DOWN.
and
What's for dinner tonight? What kind of tomatoes should I plant in the garden? Do I look fat in these pants? Have I used all my cell phone minutes? When is Charlie Sheen going to dry up and blow away? Who's on Twitter? Can I afford a nap this afternoon? I should probably take a walk instead. Oh yeah. There's a nuclear reactor melting down in Japan.
NINE POINT OH-my-gawd earthquake.
Tsunami. 4000 dead, death toll expected to rise.
Nuclear reactor MELT DOWN.
and
What's for dinner tonight? What kind of tomatoes should I plant in the garden? Do I look fat in these pants? Have I used all my cell phone minutes? When is Charlie Sheen going to dry up and blow away? Who's on Twitter? Can I afford a nap this afternoon? I should probably take a walk instead. Oh yeah. There's a nuclear reactor melting down in Japan.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
SAT Vocab 01/02
O Verdun! 8 words from the first multiple choice practice of Second Semester
calamitous; innocuous; cataclysmic; dicomfiting; preponderance; epitome; garish; lionize
Here's my Cindy Lauper example -- can you work out which word this photo represents?
Dear Child: 8 words from the second multiple choice practice of Second Semester, Sample Exam 2, passage 2: precocious, pompous, supercilious, ineptitude, conciliatory, stoic, intimation, duped
If you are looking for the lists of "most frequently used SAT words," A) I would be suspicious of any such list, but it wouldn't hurt to study it, and B), here are some handy links:
100 Most Common SAT words
A list from Scribl
from The Washington Post
The MOST effective way to acquire a strong vocabulary is to read voraciously, deeply (go over your own head), and often. Readers have better vocabularies than non-readers, period; hours spent studying lists may be better spent reading because reading helps build up your contextual skills. Here's an article with ten tips for a better vocabulary. Looking at these tips, do you see why we draw the graphic organizer to make as many associations (positive, negative, visual, exemplar) as possible??
Go play and save the world on Free Rice.
calamitous; innocuous; cataclysmic; dicomfiting; preponderance; epitome; garish; lionize
Here's my Cindy Lauper example -- can you work out which word this photo represents?
Dear Child: 8 words from the second multiple choice practice of Second Semester, Sample Exam 2, passage 2: precocious, pompous, supercilious, ineptitude, conciliatory, stoic, intimation, duped
If you are looking for the lists of "most frequently used SAT words," A) I would be suspicious of any such list, but it wouldn't hurt to study it, and B), here are some handy links:
100 Most Common SAT words
A list from Scribl
from The Washington Post
The MOST effective way to acquire a strong vocabulary is to read voraciously, deeply (go over your own head), and often. Readers have better vocabularies than non-readers, period; hours spent studying lists may be better spent reading because reading helps build up your contextual skills. Here's an article with ten tips for a better vocabulary. Looking at these tips, do you see why we draw the graphic organizer to make as many associations (positive, negative, visual, exemplar) as possible??
Go play and save the world on Free Rice.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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