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Welcome! American Idol Language Arts
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American Idol Language Arts
This session is an example of how to use Pop Culture to draw students to your side as together you explore reading and writing using a popular television program as a reference point. Country Music Diva is one way to examine summary from the standpoint of beginning, middle, end and problem/solution. Join Dottie Hall and me (Kaye Price-Hawkins) Sunday at 8:30 to see how this works and what other connections we can make. If you would like to contact me for additional information, please feel free to access my website: www.pricelessliteracy.homestead.com. Thank you!
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Try this incredibly simple but quite useful analogy to reach students who are struggling with issues of audience and style. Soon they’ll be speaking to, and not at, their audience.
Lynette, I've also been to a lecture given by Mrs. Jago and have to agree whole heartedly with your assessment of her work. She is one of several whose message helps keep me renewed as an educator.
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MIT university is trying to build a free resource to help kids learn SAT/ACT thru the power of user-generated images and video. We are currently running a nationwide contest, challenging kids to make fun and memorable flashcards by pairing sentences and images to a common test word. There will be a small cash prize and iTunes giveaways. Due date is May 22.
More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules. Do you have students or colleagues who would be interested?