Kat, I am going to take the CSET. I took the practice test and did well on analysis and comprehension, but sucked at the theoretical stuff. Do you have any books on teaching reading skills you can recommend? So I can tell a phoneme from a schmomeme and stuff.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2008 9:46:54 am PST #7890 of 28414
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kat - Nov 06, 2008 9:50:35 am PST #7891 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Marilyn Adams is a big deal in early literacy. She has lots of info on teaching reading for early grades (is it CSET for elem, right?) I didn't know you were trying to get a credential.
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 10:00:43 am PST #7892 of 28414
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Toddson, by action I meant actual action. Weird, innit?
ION, I also read "Middlesex" last night. I'd tried to read "The Virgin Suicides" years ago and was terribly bored and couldn't get into it, so I had been "eh" about trying "Middlesex" for years. But I got it at the library and was pretty entertained. Although I thought the ending was truncated and kinda of abrupt and lacking.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 10:14:15 am PST #7893 of 28414
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I'm reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion. I think I have a new near-favorite author.
Scrappy - Nov 06, 2008 10:21:15 am PST #7894 of 28414
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am aiming for the Distric Intern thingie in Middle School English--as a way in to eventually teaching Drama. I realized I really missed teaching and I ain't getting any younger. And, frankly, you are an inspiration to me as a teacher, as well as other Buffista teachers. I have two friends who did the intern program and really liked it and are both now teaching Drama.
This wouldn't be until next year, as the test is in January and the training is in May.
Gris - Nov 06, 2008 3:43:43 pm PST #7895 of 28414
Hey. New board.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Love. Re-reading some of her stuff right now, AIFG.
Calli - Nov 07, 2008 2:19:17 am PST #7896 of 28414
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I loved Bujold's Vorkosigan books, but I really, really loved Curse of Chalion, to the point where I haven't read the others in that universe. Curse just about broke me toward the end, I was so invested in the characters and their world.
Kate P. - Nov 07, 2008 2:53:32 am PST #7897 of 28414
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ok, YA readers, I have just finished The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Seriously the book rocked.
Yes! I read it a few months back and loved it. I was cheering for Frankie the whole time.
Polter-Cow - Nov 11, 2008 10:03:56 pm PST #7898 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sj - Nov 13, 2008 10:35:39 am PST #7899 of 28414
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Folio Society is currently offering the complete Harry Potter hardcover boxed set for $14.95. link
ETA: Nevermind it's one of those deals where you have to sign up to get more books in the future.