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topham's attic: January 2011

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A blog for my students and their parents. Monday, January 31, 2011. Will he or won't he? Only SNOWZILLA knows for sure! Yes, we are all on SNOWZILLA watch! Don't count your blizzards before they're.um.blown. Or whatever. But we could get some serious. Snow action starting some time tomorrow. Meanwhile, let's talk about today. In the 2cp/3h world, we had writing workshop. We introduced the new vocab. Concept the WIKICAB boards. And bring enough copies for your groups, please? Still a nnotations are due!

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topham's attic: August 2011

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A blog for my students and their parents. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. No doubt about it: I'm feeling awfully Wednesday today. Hope you had a good day! We shared thoughts about each other's names and I read a couple of samples of Name Pieces. Your assignment. Start drafting a piece about your own name in which you discuss it with attitude. We also learned how to keep track of your workshop efforts using a Workshop Summary. We discussed how to use the r. Draft instructions that can be found here. Today fee...

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topham's attic: May 2012

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A blog for my students and their parents. Thursday, May 31, 2012. 5/31 just a quickie. Last day of May! I'm almost finished grading ESC and Capstone essays for juniors, which is all I need to finish prior to attacking the finals. I should be grading finals tomorrow. I will post grades for things tomorrow as well and probably send out some emails. Not all. Pieces will prompt emails, though, so if you want to ask me something after your grade posts, please do so. Posted by Karen Topham. Yet added into grade.

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topham's attic: April 2012

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A blog for my students and their parents. Monday, April 30, 2012. Yes, the sophomores. Turned their in today! And now the count gets bigger and bigger again! We finished the movie and started presenting our projects. Marty and Peter presented first with vastly different videos. More tomorrow. We took some time to look at portfolios and then I read Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." HW: Read "The Fall of the House of Usher.". We read another ESC paper today and then we continued Macbeth. We began "Requiem F...

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topham's attic: August 2014

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A blog for my students and their parents. Sunday, August 24, 2014. It's the first day of school for everyone. Posted by Karen Topham. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). CW 1st Letter (on writing). So you want a rec. Old E3H class pages. Old E2CP class pages. Old E2H class pages. Old CW class pages. Old Acting class pages. Old Film class pages. Mrs T's stories 'n' stuff. Great Grammar (Etc.) Help from The Oatmeal. Ie vs e.g. In this space you will discover much ado about vocabulary. On that learning experience t...

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topham's attic: December 2011

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A blog for my students and their parents. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Just a mid-vacation word for those awaiting revision corrections, especially on Asher Lev. Papers. I've been sleeping a lot from the pills I've been taking for pain from my surgery, and have spent most of my waking time in a strange little chair with my shoulder hooked up to a contraption that keeps it moving. This is to say that I have not forgotten you but have had little opportunity to do the job. Posted by Karen Topham. WORD OF TH...

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topham's attic: September 2011

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A blog for my students and their parents. Friday, September 30, 2011. 9/30 when september ends. Yes, September is over, and with it the first six weeks of the school year. Gone. Gone with the wind. Gone with the fleeting memories of summer. Gone with- Oh, forget it. You're not reading this nonsense anyway. Why bother? Actually bothers to check this silly page day after day to see what kind of inspired or (mostly) uninspired lunacy I come up with? Make a huge dent in the Conference Chart. So we've been wo...

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topham's attic: March 2011

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A blog for my students and their parents. Friday, March 25, 2011. Spring break, spring break, kicking down on spring break. Have a great break! Drama folks: memorize your scripts! And here is today's "Friday" parody:. And if that is not enough:. And here is Rebecca sans autotune:. Posted by Karen Topham. Thursday, March 24, 2011. All i ever wanted. Vacation, all I ever wanted.vacation, got to get away. Umthere are these portfolios due tomorrow.you probably hadn't heard. We will be finishing Catcher.

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topham's attic: January 2012

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A blog for my students and their parents. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. 1/31 Ferris Bueller's Day Off.again. Welcome back, Ferris:. There is a new conference schedule up. Check it out. Started to watch "Garden State." More tomorrow. Discussed Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." No new HW. Discussed SD's friends. Read on to page 243 tonight, but the goal is 269 tomorrow night. It's a big jump, I'm afraid, but that is how the chapter is divided. I'd suggest reading beyond tonight's assignment. I will be...