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		<title>Catcher in the Rye &#8211; Sticky Notes Activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to report that today&#8217;s sticky notes activity went well, the purpose of which was to give my seniors ownership of two chapters each of The Catcher in the Rye. That is, I wanted them to revisit the book and do a close reading of at least a small part of it, then report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for your Grades?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no longer maintaining the online grades. They proved to be more than I could handle. Teaching is a full time job that cuts into every aspect of my life. Even when I&#8217;m home I&#8217;m working. At school, I am teaching classes, meeting with students (before and  after class, and during lunch), counseling with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Room Arrangement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in this room almost a year now and have come to a few conclusions about the placement of the desks, especially the teacher&#8217;s desk. Sitting in the back gives me the advantage of surprise in that it&#8217;s much easier for me, considering my style of teaching, to monitor the class after taking myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible Topics for &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; offers many possible topics to write a paragraph about.
By Friday my seniors will have to annotate Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; as well as write an insightful paragraph about it. Writing about poetry is not easy for them, so to get them ready, to sort of grease the wheels, we did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Term Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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What my whiteboard looks like after we get done discussing possilbe meanings of the title of Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break.&#8221;
In my class the whiteboard is becoming more an essential tool for thought, helping us to capture what we think and challenging us to explain why we think it. For example, today my seniors read &#8220;Mid-Term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crate and an Unfinished Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing confounds writers more than the challenge of organizing drafts, notes, miscellaneous scribblings, odd jottings, etc. so that we can find the stuff and use it later. The book I&#8217;m writing now &#8212; A Thousand Words: Graphic Organizers in the English Classroom &#8212; grew organically over the course of four years, and finding the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom management isn&#8217;t easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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A recent article in the Los Angeles Times about the difficulty of managing a classroom struck me as being spot on.
The article was right in mentioning that among the top reasons teachers fail and eventually leave the profession is their inability to manage their classrooms. In fact, according to the Times findings, the vast majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Full Day of School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Mr. Fasano jumps for joy.
You can tell it&#8217;s the last full day of school. Only two exam days (half days) left to go till summer.
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		<title>MLA Handbook Seventh Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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The newest MLA Handbook
A lot has changed since I used the 1977 edition of the MLA Handbook to write my first undergraduate theses. (Keats was its subject, but what little could I have known about this marvelous of poets back then?) Funny, how I have vivid memories of the handbook&#8217;s now-archaic instructions for preparing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;P Puppet Show (Student Project)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These guys did a very creative job and have given me a great idea for next year.
[See post to watch Flash video]
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