If you are old like me, or like I’m fixin’ to be soon, you might remember this commercial: Rather than launch into a discussion about how this irritated me when it came out, how it’s a tag phrase I remember now, and how it is possible they were making a joke (I hope), I will…
A very smart, very talented lady gave me this idea this Summer (Thank You to Mrs. R!) as a way to develop vocabulary skills. She is a word-lover from way back, and was able to cultivate this same passion in her kiddos by using something as simple as vocabulary cards. “Vocabulary cards?!?” you say? Yes,…
I re-learned something I think I knew once. Journal-writing is good. Systematic sustained writing on a daily basis improves writing. It just does. I’m not going to look up the proof for this, * I’m just going to state it as a fact–in order to improve your writing you must write. Over the last five…
Earlier this summer I was struck by a piece of brilliance. No jokes please…. I was watching the new Green Lantern movie and learning, for the first time, about the story of the Green Lanterns. Have you heard it? I will ‘splain. No. There is too much. I will sum up… There are tons of Green Lanterns in…
I haven’t posted a Caped Crusader of the Week in… oh… a gabillion weeks . But that’s okay because I just spent a month with twenty-one of the most amazing teachers ever to sit in one room at the San Diego Writing Project Summer Institute. I’ve met amazing teachers before (Lincoln Middle School–you rock for…
I took the plunge. I started a Twitter account and linked it to Wear the Cape. I thank SDAWP* and the National Writing Project for lighting a fire under my hiney and making me rethink my stance on Twittering (that it was evil and nasty and good-for-nuthin’). You can follow me by clicking to the…
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