by JW Moxie on March 22, 2012 · 9 comments
in (Not So) Dangerous Minds, Bullets Are for Gangstas, FAMILY, Frankly Speaking, I'M JUST SAYIN', Infertility, On Writing, Outsmarting Infertility, Sort-of, The Minions
I’ve been the chair of my school’s Red Ribbon Week committee for the past three years. There is so much work that goes into planning the events and the culminating pep rally, but I have a great team of teachers working with me and each year’s celebration is better than the last. I decided that [...]
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Evidence of what happened to the last student who was disrespectful: Okay, so not really. It’s really one of the beginning steps of my students’ character analysis group projects. I call this one “Anatomy of a Character.” In groups of 4-5, students choose a character from one of the stories we’ve read to analyze. Using the [...]
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As I shared with you a couple of weeks ago, I’m one of several new writers at Aiming Low. If you have no idea what Aiming Low is, you can’t be in my posse anymore until you click over and check it out. It’s where all the cool kids are. Or, at least it’s where [...]
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Thank you for sending along birthday wishes to my sweet girl. How is it that they grow so quickly? Just yesterday Kyra and Jaiden were born. Now they’re ten and are barreling towards the end of their elementary school careers. Next year, they’ll be up at the middle school with me, albeit a couple of halls [...]
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(If you’re reading this through a reader, please do me a solid and click through today. I’ve finally made it pretty here so things look quite different. Please let me know if everything looks okay or if there’s something I need to fix. ‘preciate it!) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I like writing my response to the Sock It [...]
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