Jo Ann Nash

“You CAN have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” ~Oprah

“Hollywood Jobs” Series

“And so location, location, location: It's the first step in getting us to
suspend disbelief for a few hours, and enter other lives.”

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134032333/for-location-scouts-its-all-about-making-the-scene

YOU KNOW WHEN
THE MEN ARE GONE
By Siobhan Fallon

http://www.siobhanfallon.com/

“…sentences popping like small arm fire, her stories scaring a gasp out of you like tracer rounds burning the night sky over your home town.” –author and reviewer, Benjamin Percy

http://www.benjaminpercy.com/

“Annotating is an important skill to use if you want to read critically.  Successful critical readers read with a pencil in their hand, making notes in the text as they read.  Instead of reading passively, they create an active relationship with what they are reading by ‘talking back’ to the book in its margins.”

“Annotating” Handout

Critical Reading Guide of Colorado State University

See “The House” in Handouts/Documents

Establishing Purpose in Annotating

"We have not won anything until a child can go to school and not think of their safety -- we have not won anything. Until a parent can think of their work, and not where they're going to find work, we have not won anything," he said. "The plural pronoun of 'we' is how we're going to meet the challenges. ... I do not want to see another child's name in memorial killed by violence."

Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm Emanuel,

winning with money and momentum,

preparing for more hard work ahead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20035263-503544.html

Herman, Ken

“Perry’s book, the power of an apostrophe…”

Austin American Statesman 11.5.10

I * attended an amazing play at UT titled Fight by Kimber Lee. It's the story of a young woman who is training to be a boxer in Newark, NJ amidst her mother's abandonment and her disabled father's psychological absence.

This quote was in the playbill:

"At a certain point, if he's going to get to the top of the boxing profession, a fighter has to learn the difference between the truth and a lie. The lie is thinking that submission is an acceptable option. The truth is that if you give up, afterward you'll realize that any of those punches that you thought you couldn't deal with, or those rough moments you didn't think you could make it through, were just moments. Enduring them is not nearly as tough as having to deal with the next day and the next month and the next year, knowing that you quit, that you failed, that you submitted. It's a trainer's job to make a fighter understand that difference, that the parts of a fight that are urgent last only seconds; seconds during which you have to stave off the convenient excuse--"I'm too tired" or "I hurt too much" or "I can't do this" or even simply "I'm not going to deal with this." Sometimes it just comes down to not floating -- just being there and understanding that if you give in, you'll hurt more tomorrow. Maybe there is no more important lesson to learn from boxing than that."

--Atlas, Teddy (well known boxing trainer). Playbill Fight. University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance. 21 November 2010.

* Thanks to our RROC Librarian, Ms. Blumberg

     "And above all, we saw a new generation emerge — a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears; a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations.  One Egyptian put it simply:  Most people have discovered in the last few days…that they are worth something, and this cannot be taken away from them anymore, ever.

     This is the power of human dignity, and it can never be denied.  Egyptians have inspired us, and they’ve done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence.  For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence — not terrorism, not mindless killing — but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.
    
     And while the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can’t help but hear the echoes of history — echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice.

     As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to perfect his own, “There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.” ~President Obama

Check out this great website featuring all presidents:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/barackobama

“I am a bricklayer of words, mixing, troweling, leveling across and down pages, creating new pathways of understanding.”

~National Writing Project

Money magazine’s “The 50 Best Jobs in America” (86)

“Skating on Thin Ice”

http://www.tvkim.com/watch/759/kims-picks-crazy-ice-skater

Create a Metaphor about YOU – model I Am a Pencil

Create a Simile about your career –
“Teaching is like reading a fascinating novel
that you lose before you've finished the story.”

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);

16th U.S. President

It’s All about Networking

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133474431/a-successful-job-search-its-all-about-networking

Network of Websites

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133583967/New-Network-Of-Websites-May-Help-Job-Seekers

“…students learn by creating, remember by experiencing, and show what they know by teaching.”  Edutopia

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-assessment-authentic-student-engagement-video

Loved this comment:

"Show what you know." Half of my mantra as a teacher. The other half; "What do YOU think?"

Revisit Holes Sam tells Katherine he is good with his hands.  Then he proves it...

“Wicked Smart”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s