Category Archives: Media
Monday Media: Book Foods
So, I will confess, I am a reader-eater. Specifically, I always find myself wanting to eat along with the characters in the book I’m reading. They’re sitting down to tea in my murder-mystery? I want tea. They’re sampling some exotic … Continue reading
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Wednesday Writing: Fall Cross-Under Reads
As I wait for my copyedits to come back to me, I have started thinking about future books… both mine and those of others. To that end, I thought I’d share a fabulous list of some exciting Fall … Continue reading
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Monday Media: Military Marketing
Anyone in writing knows that book publishing these days demands far more of authors than it did in days of yore. This week, Publisher’s Weekly ran an article detailing the intensity with which one particular author is engaging in this … Continue reading
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Tuesday Teaching: Nurture Shock
This week I head back into teacher training and setting up my classroom. Next week, the kids are back and the school year starts up again. I’m not sure how much I will manage to do differently, but one book … Continue reading
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Monday Media: When it Pays to Tweet
An interesting comment on the power of Twitter: Arijit Guha, an Arizona graduate student who had to undergo expensive treatment for colon cancer while under a capped student health plan, took his frustration to Twitter. Distressed at having $118,000 of … Continue reading
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Tuesday Teaching: Girl Talk
Okay, so this is not *entirely* about teaching, but I do think it has some nice parallels, especially if you’re teaching younger children. I recently bumped into a co-worker and his completely adorable 3-year-old daughter. I instantly scrunched down to … Continue reading
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Monday Media: The Perspective of Other Presses
I am still in Ireland (though I’ll be home sooner than I would like), and one thing that I’ve been doing is listening to and reading the Irish news. Which brings me to my post for today… it is fascinating … Continue reading
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Monday Media: Bravely done!
I went to see Disney/Pixar’s latest, “Brave,” and I wanted to take a quick minute to highlight why I thought it was a great kid’s movie, emphasis on the “kid.” The heroine is a redhead. Automatic awesomeness. Enough said. . … Continue reading
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Monday Media: Authorship in Journalism
This past Saturday, NPR ran a story on This American Life, creatively titled “Forgive Us Our Press Passes,” about a journalism company, Journatic, that outsources local news reporting. That’s right: they outsource local reporting to places like the Philippines where journalism is … Continue reading
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Monday Media: High-Low Fiction
The problem: A terrifying percent of high-schoolers can’t read. (77% of 8th graders read below grade level in CA.) The solution? Write books for teens at a 3rd-grade level. The LA Times reported that Saddleback Educational Publishing is launching a … Continue reading
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Wednesday Writing: Marketing Jitters
A few weeks ago Jenny Lawson was on NPR talking about how, while writing is easy, up-keeping her media presence sends her into panic attacks. As this is my first attempt at blogging, it amused and comforted me to know other … Continue reading
Monday Media: You are Not Special
This past weekend, David McCullough spoke at the Wellesley High School Graduation, delivering the key message that, well, you are not special. “Think about this, even if you’re one in a million, on a planet of 6.8 billion, that means there … Continue reading
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Tuesday Teaching: Cooking Commands
This project idea was given to me by Renee Dacey, Spanish teacher extraordinaire at Burlington High School. I just used the BHS 1-to-1 iPads and a class YouTube channel to spice it up a little. LESSON: Given a unit in … Continue reading
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Monday Media: Should kids use Facebook?
The Economist just ran an article titled “Facebook and children: Let the nippers network” in which they maintain that “with appropriate safeguards, children should be allowed to use social networks.” The article reasons the following: Kids are already doing it: … Continue reading
Tuesday Teaching: Musical Subjunctive
My Spanish 3 class is deep in the throes of learning the subjunctive, that wonderful tense in Spanish that you use whenever the resulting action may or may not occur. It is not the easiest tense in the world for … Continue reading
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Tara Sullivan 