I have created an assignment which touches on at least 5 objectives, under the heading of mood. Here is a "Keynote" presentation that serves as an explanation for the assignment (and I have another one that can be used as an example. I have also made a scoring guide, which I will add soon--it's on my school computer).

Mood.key

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUhDV-72S0

Might be something to look at when working with Mood:-)

I learned something when four of us SJSD CA teachers met recently to discuss how we can use technology/Web 2.0 in our classrooms with only one computer. Me, who was going to show others how to use Wordle in the communication arts classroom. Angie Klaassen -- I want to be her when I grow up -- showed us how she takes the SOS for each unit as she gets ready to begin a new one, puts it into Wordle, and puts it in front of her students to process… Continue

Many of you probably have already discovered this phenomenon, but I wanted to share just in case you haven't found this resource yet. If you go to books.google.com, you are able to search for any book and some books have the entire text available to preview. For some books, you can only preview the first few chapters but for others, you are able to see the most/entire book. Just another resource to find text to use in the classroom!

In my classroom walkthrough session last week, I came upon two CA classrooms that were, to the most casual observer, in the middle of the workshop process with some of the toughest students our school has to offer them.

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