I Don’t Think My Opinions Are Stupid

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Dear Anne,
I know it must be difficult for you to discuss your thoughts and ideas with people who do not understand you, or worse people who berate and belittle you, but I do not think it is a good idea to bottle up your opinions. I don’t think your views are stupid, [...]

A Picture Says A 1000 Words

Many of you have written about your want or I should say need to bring a camera to document your experience if you were ever to go into hiding, while others have mentioned the need to bring photographs to help you nurture your memories and keep them alive.
A photograph can be a powerful tool to [...]

Memories or Dresses? Easy a Guitar!

I asked the students to write on this prompt. Here is my response:
The first thing I would try to take with me more than anything else would be my guitar. Now some people may try to argue that the act of carrying a large wooden instrument goes against the criteria set in the prompt-what you [...]

Writing Is Never Perfect

Righting is nver perfct. we all make mistkes we miss airors, sometimes we do not prrofread, and when we do me still mis things. Some of us are writing in a second language and grammatical rules are still being leanred to us. We all right at different levels. Some of us are examplrty, while others [...]

What is Courage?

I cannot promise anything, but my plan is to be able to complete every writing assignment that I assign my students. Correcting papers and planning lessons may take precedent, but I hope that by doing what I ask my students to do, they will see that writing is not simply a torture device used by [...]

1, 2, 3, let’s Blog!

Students in Mr. R’s English class will be using personal weblogs to post various reflective journals, diary style entries (For the Anne Frank unit), and a variety of other writing assignments to the Internet. This project is part of the technology integration initiative in the middle school. Our class will be working closely with the [...]