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Monday, January 23, 2012

This is No-Name-Calling Week

Watch the video and find other information at
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/no-name-calling-books-childrens-books/379002621/?&cm_mmc=Facebook-_-BN-_-product_page-_-no_name_calling
Posted by Ms. D. at 11:05 PM
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      • Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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      • Notes on Essay for Historical Fiction
      • The Suffix -less
      • Friday, February 17, 2012
      • Parent Teacher Conference Thursday, the 16th
      • Wednesday, February 15, 2012
      • Monday, February 13, 2012
      • Have you contracted this disease?
      • Symbolism
      • Totally, Like Whatever, You Know?
      • The Prefix "mis-"
      • Sample Answers for Jan-Feb Book Assessment
      • Thursday, February 9, 2012
      • Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens!
      • The Help
      • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
      • un- and -ist Illustrations
      • Garrett and others who read The Light in the Fores...
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      • A Lot or Alot?
      • Sample for Historical Fiction Essay
      • Theme?
      • Core Test: What Will Be On It This Year -- Probabl...
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      • un- and -ist extra credit
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      • Historical Fiction Books and Topics
      • This is No-Name-Calling Week
      • Look Forward to Reading This Book in Ninth Grade!...
      • Commas in a Series
      • Thursday, January 26, 2012
      • Tuesday, January 24, 2012
      • More Poems for Words By Heart/Historical Fiction
      • Wow! It's Grammar Ninja!
      • Three Little Pigs if Told By Shakespeare
      • The Help
      • War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
      • Friday, January 20, 2012
      • Wednesday, January 18, 2012
      • Parts of a Paragraph, Essay, and Fictional Story
      • Third Term Requirements
      • A New Beginning -- Term 3
      • Illustrations for il-
      • Informal Citation 2012
      • Fun with Books!
      • Why It's Hard to Spell in English
      • Friday, January 13, 2012
      • Wednesday, January 11, 2012
      • Monday, January 9, 2012
      • Quote
      • Steal Away. . . to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong
      • A Few Transition Words and Phrases
      • Combining Sentences Using Commas in a Series
      • Now, everybody say "Awwwww"
      • History Stuff
      • Thursday, January 5, 2012
      • Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you." - From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler
"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
-John Berger
“Think of education
as a garden
where questions
grow.”
Anna Devere Smith

". . . success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline." President Barak Obama

"The future is not a gift. It is an achievement." Robert Kennedy as quoted by President Obama

A great grammar link (with some errors, but it has Yoda!)
http://www.lordalford.com/grammar/grammarevil.htm#2

What I've Been Reading -- January - February 2011


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Other Classes and Activities

Contact Ms. Dorsey at cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org

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http://www.myaccess.com/

This is the English Class Blog.

If you're looking for Ms. Dorsey's other classes and activities, here are the links:

For Reading 7 go to
http://cavereading.blogspot.com/

For Creative Writing go to
http://cavewriting.blogspot.com/

For Mock Trial go to
http://cavemocktrial.blogspot.com/

For READ180
go to http://cave180.blogspot.com


Use Pioneer to search for useful information for school projects, etc. For access from home --
Go to http://pioneer.uen.org
User Name: pioneer
Password: search

World Book Web
http://worldbookonline.com


Here's a site with word games, etc.:
http://www.fun-with-words.com


Play a punctuation game at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm

Wonder how to pronounce author names? Go to http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=3090
and begin with a very popular author. Use the search to find others.

About Me

Ms. D.
I teach English 7, Reading 7, Reading Dynamics, and Creative Writing at American Fork Junior High. I have six children and three grandchildren, and have lived in Idaho, Utah, Connecticut, and California. I enjoy reading, hiking, camping, gardening, bird-watching, going to plays and museums, and being with my children and grandchildren.
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Book-of-the-Month Genres

2010-2011
January-
February: Historical or Multicultural Fiction;
February-March: Nonfiction (including biography, autobiography, single-subject nonfiction books not including how-to books)

March - April:

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