Where Reading and Writing
Meet Thinking and Creating...

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Please, please watch this short video!

The Heart of the Matter from americanacad on Vimeo.

Your fearless leader...

Hi! I am Mrs. Williams and welcome to my online classroom resource!

Here you will be able to:
    -keep track of and upload your assignments.
    -share with your classmates, and enrich your real-time classroom experience.
    -discover new ways to show your learning.
    - showcase your best writing and projects.
    -learn new methods of accessing literature.
    -ask questions and get answers.
Use these pages as a central hub for all things English. Explore ThatEnglishTeacher to find information about our classes, great projects, and of course... GREAT BOOKS!

ps. sometimes I hide extra credit on these pages... :)

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ts   Quote a Day

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Please take a moment
to participate in my Favorite Genre Survey.

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html?loclr=lsp_rg0001

#1 Reading Myth: Not Enough Time to Read

The Truth: Reading literature takes no more time than anything else does.

Author and historian David McCullough once explained just how much a person could read if they spent as much time with books as they did with television.

The average person, he said, watches four hours of TV a day, and reads at a rate of 250 words per minute. If those four hours of TV were spent reading, in one week a person could read all the poems of T.S. Eliot and Maya Angelou, two plays by Thornton Wilder, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the book of Psalms. In the second week, he continued, a person could read all of Moby-Dick and make good headway on The Brothers Karamazov.

We have enough time to read; what we need is commitment and a new set of priorities. Spend even half of your TV time reading quality books and watch your life change before your eyes.

–Teen Literacy Tips; Nick Senger

 Where can you find at least thirty minutes a day for reading?

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