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Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

February 29, 2012

School Library Journal: Gr 5 – 9 — Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Houghton, 1984) has taken on …

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Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples

February 28, 2012

BookList: Books for Youth, Older Readers: /*STARRED REVIEW*/ Gr. 9-12. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989), with its wholly realized …

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Girls’ Gym Class Circa 1879

February 28, 2012

A gym class at West Heath School for Young Ladies, 1 Ham Common. It became a school in c.1879 under …

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War Horse-Junior/intermediate Point of View Lesson

February 27, 2012

Artists Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones describe their War Horse puppet as an “emotional prosthesis.”* It takes three puppeteers working …

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Compare your drips to those of Jackson Pollock

February 26, 2012

Paint like Jackson Pollock As soon as you visit this site you won’t be able to resist slopping paint like Jack …

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Burned Libraries Considered

February 25, 2012

In 2003 Ms. Baker, 50-year old, head librarian of Basra’s Central Library worried when Iraqi government officials moved their offices …

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Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Children

February 24, 2012

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Children Film throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine …

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Visual Literacy-why it’s important to students

February 23, 2012

Visual Literacy Prezi Educator Andrea Hunt uses Prezi to introduce junior/intermediate/senior students to visual literacy and its importance to our …

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100 Years Since the Titanic Sank-BBC writing resources

February 23, 2012

BBC Titanic Video Clip  Duration: 01:41 This subject may be of interest to you and your students with the 100th anniversary of the …

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Google Science Fair for 13-18 year olds

February 22, 2012

Google Science Fair Teachers’ Page This year’s deadline for Google’s 2012 online science fair is April 1st. Young people from …

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