From: "Carla Beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's new at Web English Teacher?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:38:52 -0500
What's new at Web English Teacher?
September 24, 2002
1. New Page
2. Hispanic Heritage Month Resources
3. IndiVisual/Hewlett-Packard 'Read for Life'
scholarship for US schools
4. Tidbits
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1. New page
James Fenimore Cooper
http://webenglishteacher.com/cooper.html
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2. September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month.
Here are some resources to help you and your students
celebrate:
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/hhm/
A&E, the History Channel, the Biography Channel, and
History International celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
This site has a program schedule and information,
teaching materials, links, and suggestions for a fiesta.
Sandra Cisneros
http://webenglishteacher.com/cisneros.html
Ideas for teaching The House on Mango Street.
Esmeralda Santiago
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/puerto/
Discussion questions for When I was Puerto Rican, and
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/almost/
Discussion questions for Almost a Woman.
Gary Soto
http://webenglishteacher.com/soto.html
Links to ideas for teaching a variety of works by Soto.
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3. IndiVisual/Hewlett-Packard 'Read for Life'
scholarship
The 'Read for Life' scholarship consists of a wireless mobile
reading lab with 5 Hewlett-Packard laptop PCs complete with 3
years unlimited student-use of IndiVisual Reading ($25,000 value).
Another plus with this scholarship is the fact that Dr. John
Manning, a former president of the International Reading
Association, is the author/advisor behind the IndiVisual Reading
program. The scholarship is available to any public, private,
parochial or charter school within the United States.
For more details, visit the links below or contact them directly
at 651.602.3144.
Direct link for the scholarship itself, to apply online:
http://www.indivisuallearning.com/scholarship.html
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4. Tidbits
A school teacher injuired his back and had to wear a plaster
cast around the upper part of his body. It fit under his
shirt and was not at all noticeable. On the first day of the
new year, with the cast still under his shirt, he found
himself assigned to the toughest students in the school.
Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, he opened the
window as wide as possible and then busied himself with desk
work. When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he took his
stapler and stapled the tie to his chest. He had no trouble
with discipline that year!
Everyone who has ever taken a typing class knows about
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." Apparently
this sentence was the winner in a contest to find a sentence
using every letter of the alphabet in the 1930s. There was a
shorter sentence: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
However, due to the tension with Prohibition in America then,
that sentence was disqualified.
Teacher: Who was the biggest thief in history?
Student: Atlas. He held up the whole world.
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
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Carla Beard
Web English Teacher
http://webenglishteacher.com
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