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An Experience Never Forgotten
An Experience Never Forgotten
I just had the most amazing experience. About two months ago, I was hired to teach a five-year old girl English. She knew only the alphabet song and could not recognize the letters or their sounds if they were put in front of her. I started slow. Every class, we would sing through the song while she followed along on a sheet of paper with the letters on it. We practiced the sounds over and over.…
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The Year So Far
The Year So Far
I know I promised weekly posts, and I apologize for not following through. I am prepared, now, to give my progress report for life as a teacher and author, however. This week is my last week at the college I work at as a writing consultant, freeing up my time for the rest of the month. So, starting next Monday, I will write at least ten pages every day in Breaking Earth. One of the main reasons I…
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Facebook’s New “Reactions” are Not What Users Wanted
Facebook’s New “Reactions” are Not What Users Wanted
Over the past year, Facebook users have been lobbying for a “Dislike” button to express their feelings about unwanted or distasteful posts. Well, the message got through to Facebook, but it did not have the outcome the users wanted. Instead of a “Dislike” button—which was all that was asked for—five other buttons now accompany the lonely “Like” button: “love,” “wow,” “haha,” “angry,” and…
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Camp NaNo!
It’s that time of year, folks! I’ll be finishing up Breaking Earth by the end of this month and hopefully publishing by the end of May. My word count goal is 60,000, and I’ll be posting weekly updates on my progress. However, if you want more detailed updates plus special excerpts from the book, please subscribe to my newsletter, which will be posted weekly this month! I’ve got my own cabin…
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Creating a Great Learning Environment
Creating a Great Learning Environment
Encouraging a Community of Learners My biggest tool for creating a community of learners is class and small-group discussions. Class discussions provide students the opportunity to share their ideas and ask questions while establishing relationships and developing the ability to seek their own answers rather than relying on the teacher for them. If I notice a common problem that the students are…
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Relearning Pronoun Usage
I had an embarrassing experience on Friday… A student asked for my assistance with her homework assignment and showed me the lesson she was working from. I went over the lesson the teacher provided and determined that a couple notes were incorrect. I pointed them out, and she told me what the professor had explained to her about the notes, after which I mentally kicked myself repeatedly. The…
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Going for My Certification
Going for My Certification
Though I dropped my minor in education in college, I have since found out that pretty much every teaching opportunity requires experience in education and most certainly a teaching certification. So, I have applied to take an emergency certification program in order to get the job I am passionate about, no matter where that may take me. I can only hope that in the meantime, I am able to get a…
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A New Experience
Today, I received the tremendous honor of teaching a 2nd grade class as part of a job interview. The experience was both enlightening and amazing! My lesson focused on text features in nonfiction textbooks, which I didn’t know was an actual category until the principal of the school gave me the topic. Anyway, back to the experience! The class was awesomely well behaved. I never had so few…
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Staying away from Character Conformity
Staying away from Character Conformity
I’ve recently run into a problem. I’ve been delving into dialogue and character interaction, but somehow, I didn’t feel like I was doing my characters justice. Then, last week, a long-time writing buddy pointed out, when I read a passage from my current work-in-progress, that one of my characters was starting to sound like another one. Needless to say, I was horrified to think that my characters…
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Planning a Proposal
I’ve been thinking a lot about a proposal for a presentation I want to give at the International Education Conference. Though I will not be ready by April with the presentation I want to give. I’m now laying out the plans for research and development on the topic. In addition to the presentation, I plan to write a paper on the same topic because of how passionately I feel about it. The topic…
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Academic Writing
Here, you’ll find essays that reflect my ability as a writer and information on structure and form. Literary Analysis Research_Paper Annotated Bibliography Cultural Analysis
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Newsletter Mania!
Since I have much more time on my hands, I plan to start sending out weekly newsletters instead of just monthly. These newsletters include a writing tip, an exclusive excerpt from Breaking Earth, and updates about my writing progress as well as a possible reward for subscribing! If anyone is interested in receiving these weekly newsletters, please visit my “Newsletter” tab on my website or click…
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Writing a New Chapter
Writing a New Chapter
The title of this post refers not only to the chapter I’m currently working on but also the new chapter that just started in my life. Last month, I graduated from college with a Bachelor of the Arts in English, and I’m getting ready to start my new life as a college professor. The road has been strenuous and long, but, by the grace of God and with a little (a lot) of help from my parents, I am…
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A Whole New Definition
A Whole New Definition
I have found new joy in words! Yesterday, I worked with a Taiwanese girl to improve her English vocabulary. We pored over a critical review of a short story that she had been assigned to read and summarize in her ENGL 1302 class. To be sure, it was a wordy affair, with plenty of sentences like “A feminist view of the reading most assuredly provides a correctness that gives the reading an…
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Teaching and Learning Sibilants; a Lesson for Students and Teachers
Teaching and Learning Sibilants; a Lesson for Students and Teachers
I recently taught a two-week, crash-course ESL class to a married couple from Carmen, Mexico. I have to say, it was both enlightening and exciting. Not only did I aid in the knowledge base of the couple, but I also expanded and developed my own teaching strategies. Near the end of the session, I got into sibilants. Sibilants are consonant sounds that make a hiss, which comes from air rushing…
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Don't Be Afraid of Semicolons; They Connect Ideas!
Don’t Be Afraid of Semicolons; They Connect Ideas!
I’ve been told recently that I shouldn’t use semicolons in my book. In fact, an awesome writer by the name of Kurt Vonnegut said in his book Armageddon in Retrospect,
My advice to writers just starting out? Don’t use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
Pretty harsh, right?
As much as I respect…
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Teaching to Love
One of my biggest goals in life is to inspire people to love words. I believe literature is man’s greatest invention, but with modern technology, it is becoming that much harder to be patient enough to sit down with a book for longer than thirty seconds.
A cellphone is always within reach, ready to provide an instant distraction from lines of text on paper to lines of text, more interesting text,…
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