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Bridge in the Middle - Thoughts of a Middle School Principal: Visiting Author Program
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Bridge in the Middle - Thoughts of a Middle School Principal. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. For the past four years, our school has invested in our visiting author program as an opportunity for our students to interact with professional authors. I am happy to say that this investment has been very worthwhile and I believe these visits have had a profound impact on our school culture and our writing program. Over the past four years, we have had visits from professional writers such as Taylor Mali. I really ...
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Sara Holbrook's Blog Spot: January 2015
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Whats so Big About - Where? Thursday, January 29, 2015. Backwards Day All Year Long. Some poems visit you at sunset. Some haunt you in the wee hours with Jabberwocky logic because, let's face it, anything seems logical at 3AM. There are poems you reach for when a friend dies, when a marriage implodes, when gratitude washes away pain. Dan Ferri's poem, Backwards Day. You know what this list is? Sometimes at school we have a special day. We call it backwards day. Everyone wears their clothes backwards.
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Sara Holbrook's Blog Spot: Teen Books
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Whats so Big About - Where? Poems from Him and Her. Grade 7 Up—Through a series of "he" and "she" poems, Holbrook and Wolf detail the range of emotions when a childhood friendship become a teenage romance. The relationship goes from shy uncertainty to blissful togetherness, dark rejection, and, finally, a return to friendship. Most of the poems are complementary and conversational, such as the excellent opening selections: "What to Do When She Looks at You? And "What to Do When He Looks at You? But teach...
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Sara Holbrook's Blog Spot: February 2015
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Whats so Big About - Where? Thursday, February 12, 2015. A Valentine's Day Story. It wasn't the worst thing that ever happened to me, and you'll be glad to know, I did not injure myself or others despite the murderous, vengeful thoughts going through my head at the moment I tried to capture in the poem. But 50 years later, I still remember. On Valentine's Day, be nice. I gave Jim a valentine. He stuffed it in his shirt,. Then stood there in the hallway. With his jerko friends and smirked. November 1-6 Fr...
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From Beijing to Tokyo | Wiersze w Metrze - Poetry from Poland
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Wiersze w Metrze Blog. Wiersze w Metrze – Poetry from Poland. From Beijing to Tokyo. During the past two weeks the daily average of 7 million of Beijing subway commuters was able to stop for a couple of minutes and ponder upon Poetry from Poland. Scattered among selected underground stations. The meeting with Jerzy Jarniewicz. Has officialy initiated the campaign in Beijing and the Spoke’N’Word Festival at Bookworm Beijing. Our campaign remains eastbound and moves on to Tokyo, Japan. From Beijing to Tokyo.
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Tag you’re it! Poetry tag for teens! | Top Of My Head
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Top Of My Head. YA: Can we look in the mirror? The best writing advice you’ll ever get. →. Tag you’re it! Poetry tag for teens! December 19, 2011. When I was approached to contribute to this exciting e-book project by the great children’s Poet Janet Wong. And literary taste maker extraordinaire Sylvia Vardell. I jumped at the chance. I had heard of their first project, Poetry Tag Time. The rules for this poetic game of tag are brilliant in their simplicity:. A poet is tagged. The poet tags another poet.
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Portable Teacher: I Walk With You
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. I Walk With You. I am doing a lot of thinking about who influences my teaching practice. Patrick Allen wrote about who he was walking with into his classroom and his post on Facebook and Michelle Haseltine. I walk with Janet Allen. And Becky Bone and Christine Landaker. And a host of Geese who taught me real lessons. I walk with Beth. I will walk into this year with Jackie and Krystin. And Amorette and Tracie. I walk with Sara Kajder. I walk with Sara Holbrook. Life in my room a...
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Portable Teacher: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Blueprints of a Lifetime. Life starts with story. The story of the time Jenny snuck into her parents' whirlpool bath tub while they were out working in the yard. She did it even though she was not supposed to. She filled the large tub to the rim with steamy water and submerged herself. She was alone in the house, alone in the tub. You guys, she lives. The story in Mrs. Spillane's class! Kids glanced at each other sideways, exhaled and chuckled. Lynn christmas Rat Narrative. Such ...
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