Tag: education
member name: Pamela H.
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February 23, 2007 11:32 AM EST --
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day...
How do you get to the stage in life where the shadows are beginning to fall, and suddenly discover the mind and magic of Bob Dylan? How do you . . .
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March 16, 2007 07:58 PM EDT --
When televangelist Jimmy Swaggart had his fall from grace in February of 1987, many Americans delighted in his public humiliation. Swaggart had been caught with a prostitute. He was a hypocrite, . . .
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April 17, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
This being school vacation week here in Massachusetts, and me being a teacher, I am -- of course -- correcting papers.
And I have this one stack that are problematic. They are my students' letters . . .
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February 26, 2007 10:15 PM EST --
With Spring Training games set to begin this week, baseball is finally on the horizon. Still, at least for those of us in the northern half of the country, there is enough winter left to read a few . . .
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June 02, 2007 04:58 PM EDT --
This is the story of the fifth-grade schoolteacher -- me -- who became so inspired and captivated by Bob Dylan that I went on pilgrimage to his hometown, a journey of 1575 miles from my front . . .
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March 01, 2007 07:58 PM EST --
My upper elementary level students are studying the Medieval period in history this year. We've covered the Middle East and the origins of Islam; Western Europe and Feudalism; and three of the . . .
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March 31, 2007 04:19 PM EDT --
Opening Day in Major League Baseball is tomorrow, and that's no April Fool. The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets will open the 2007 season tomorrow night at 8. But despite MLB featuring . . .
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May 05, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Here's your hat.....what's your hurry?
Of all the lines written by Bob Dylan, this may be the most unexpected and unlikely: "By the way, that's a cute hat." ("Sweetheart . . .
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April 25, 2007 10:55 PM EDT --
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why.
-- James Elroy . . .
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April 28, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
Ever write a "found poem"? A found poem consists of lines taken from some other work. The poet culls lines and phrases from any number of possible sources -- the newspaper, a magazine, . . .
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May 08, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
"What My Grandparents Mean To Me."
Sounds like a simple assignment for a fifth and sixth grade essay, doesn't it?
Not really.
In my combined fifth and sixth grade class, we are reading . . .
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June 22, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Now that school is over, the final week of games, grades, awards, meetings, banquets, invocations, convocations, graduations, and plain old tears at goodbye behind me, I can at . . .
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June 08, 2007 11:14 PM EDT --
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
Walking into the Hibbing Public Library on Thursday, May 24, the morning of Bob Dylan's 66th birthday, . . .
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