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		<title>Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book&#8217;s preface Chesterton states the purpose is to &#8220;attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ring Lardner and Baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ring Lardner]]></category>

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This time of year when many sports fans turn to baseball, my mind wanders to writers like Ring Lardner, who wrote about baseball during the game&#8217;s heyday. Oddly, I&#8217;ve never taught Ring Lardner, and now that I don&#8217;t teach American Literature, the odds are slim that I&#8217;ll be teaching him anytime soon. But the impulse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First post from iPod Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I downloaded this amazing Wordpress app that enables me to update this blog from the comfort of my couch. Not bad, especially since I&#8217;m trying to spend less time in front of the computer. I can also post pix with this app, but I&#8217;ll have to fool around with it a bit before I get [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney]]></category>

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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>Van Gogh&#8217;s Bedroom, 1889</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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In a letter to his brother, van Gogh described this painting in great detail:


My dear Theo —
At last I’m sending you a little croquis to give you at least an idea of the direction the work is taking. Because today I’ve gone back to it.
My eyes are still tired, but anyway I had a new [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Books for Teachers]]></category>
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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>The Simpsons Lord of the Flies &#8211; Das Bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Lord of the Flies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Siimpsons]]></category>

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		<title>Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Stevens]]></category>

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I found this interesting short film about Wallace Steven&#8217;s &#8220;Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.&#8221; I plan to use it as part of my poetry unit with bith 10th and 12th graders.
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		<title>&#8220;The Daffodils&#8221; by William Wordsworth (Rap)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></category>

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MC Nuts spits William Wordsworth hip-hop style.
The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
			I wandered lonely as a cloud
   That floats on high o&#8217;er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
   A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as [...]]]></description>
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