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faculty book club
April 2017: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
article of the week
June 5, 2017: "Amazon.com Is a 21st Century Deal with the Devil" by Amy Koss for the Los Angeles Times (Note: This is the final AoW for the 2016-2017 school year.)
news
Check out the Spring 2016 edition of The Exchange, the official newsletter of the Secondary Reading Interest Group of the International Literacy Association.
Felipe, one of Kelly's seniors, recites the famous advice scene in Hamlet to the class.
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Is it bad to admit publicly that I still get mixed up between "further" and "farther"?
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Peer editing and peer response are not the same thing. The former often makes papers worse; the latter often makes papers better.
Moving Beyond the 4 x 4 Classroom...looking back at this past school year as I worked to increase the volume of reading and writing in my classroom