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These are the Best of Times
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. May 10, 2013. For one afternoon,. In the sun of the middle of the day,. Your hand in mine,. I want to hear a song. That always makes me think of you,. And for the whole song,. Hold your hand in mine,. And feel your pulse with mine,. Knowing for the length of that song,. May 20, 2013 at 9:00 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Virtual Lesson: Thesis Statements. Virtual Lesson: When to Use Ellipsis. Authors no...
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These are the Best of Times: Informative Writing: Sushi Rice
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Author's Note: This is my informative piece which stands as a model of what we are trying to achieve in 7th grade LA class. I incorporated components I would like students to also use, and wrote in real time with the class so we could all experience the process together. A Good Rice for Sushi. Why should people wait for special occasions to eat the foods they really enjoy? I can ...
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These are the Best of Times: Poetry
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. Scratches cross the paper linen,. Rough profiled quality, dry and creased beyond repair. Wet lick of blue streaks lay out in lines,. All formed in shape, obedient,. All laid out in shapes. When thoughts emerge from deep within,. There stirs the dust of reckoning,. Then the light of consciousness,. Repellent pull of second-guessing,. But pen lays out by pen,. What paper would draw out anyway,. Bits of broken love,.
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These are the Best of Times: Parents: Respect Your Child's Dreams
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. December 5, 2014. Parents: Respect Your Child's Dreams. Author's Note: This is a response to a non-fiction article from Newsela - https:/ newsela.com/articles/Braille-startup/id/5878/. I tried to incorporate the information from the article into my essay by telling the story in chronological order. My take on the essay's topic was from reading it as a parent. Children need different kinds of help from their pare...
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These are the Best of Times: Re-Telling of The Last Dragon Slayer
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. September 24, 2013. Re-Telling of The Last Dragon Slayer. Jennifer takes the wizards to do odd jobs to make money, and realizes that the magical powers are all getting stronger. There are rumors that it may be because the last great dragon is dying. When Jennifer seeks to find the answer, she discovers she is in fact, the last dragon slayer - a title that only one person may hold, and which brings great ...When ...
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These are the Best of Times: Art Imitates Life
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. With all my work set for the day, I lean back, prop my feet up, and turn my attention to my own sketchbook where I am developing ideas of my own. Before I know it, students begin to appear for the morning sessions. I feel like I'm drowning in a sea of clichés - a high school graduate on her own in a big unknown city. Where have I seen that before? With that done, I return to my coffee which had begun to grow col...
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These are the Best of Times: Surviving Deserts and Surprises
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. September 12, 2014. Surviving Deserts and Surprises. Meet usually owned a store or gas station! The cholla is one of the cactus whose barbs are hooked, so pulling them out is incredibly painful. In fact, I had already heard stories from people whose dogs got stuck by the barbs, and when taken to the vet, they were routinely pushed through as that did less damage than pulling them out the way they came in. The su...
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These are the Best of Times: San Francisco: West Coast Waves
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. April 30, 2015. San Francisco: West Coast Waves. Each neighborhood of the city unfolds as we walk from street to street. The style of buildings changes, the food being served in restaurants changes, the language spoken by pedestrians changes. Curiously enough, what doesn't change is the sense of home, the sense that we are completely welcome, the sense that we belong no matter what neighborhood we are in. Then h...
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These are the Best of Times: What You Resist Persist - Carl Jung
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. January 23, 2014. What You Resist Persist - Carl Jung. Here in school from time to time behaviors occur which are not examples of us being the people we want to be; we make mistakes, and poor decisions. From time to time. The question that always arises is what is the best thing we should do as a school to address these issues. Should we enforce harsher penalties? Is reality counter-intuitive, asking us to stop ...
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These are the Best of Times: Between Waters
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These are the Best of Times. Informative Writing: Sushi Rice. Collaborative Writing: a Novel. October 29, 2013. The river flows,. Divided between the two of us,. The way the world has parted. No matter where we have gone,. No matter what has flowed over us,. Our selves not parting,. Our love’s bond unbroken. The Seine breaks,. Surrounds the Isle,. Sending surrounding waters,. Suspended in the light. Finds us discovering places:. A plot of grass, a settling bench. Falling into each other’s arms,. Virtual ...
