Reminders: *List ALL of your essential attributes associated with the intended job description. If an outdoors job, make a point to spend some time acquiring and growing your knowledge base towards certifications or licenses that benefit and interest you in the field. For example, an outdoors-related area might include first aid or a ham radioContinue reading “Resumes and Cover Letters Tips”
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More College Essays and Scholarships Tips to Consider
*Consider your interests and hobbies when writing. Sounding passionate about what you write about is a must. *Stand out among the rest. Take the time to investigate by reading sample essays to see what to do and not to do. Grade school teachers spent years showing you samples of rights and wrongs in writing. UtilizeContinue reading “More College Essays and Scholarships Tips to Consider”
College Application and Scholarship Essays Tips
* Keep it real to you *Make it a personal statement that you truly believe in *Make a list of everything you want in the theme or question asked of you *Write and Rewrite several times to survey whether you covered everything you wanted to cover *Perhaps treat it how you might write a bioContinue reading “College Application and Scholarship Essays Tips”
Read a good book today…
Find your comfort book and snuggle into a blanket. Think about it…there is a book on the shelf that is hopping to be turned, dog-eared, and put on a pedestal when it is finished. My list is long but will tease with a book a week. My first High School level reread book sitting highContinue reading “Read a good book today…”
“Uncoiling” by Pat Mora is such a great introduction poem to a “We are Women, Hear Us Roar” Unit.
Pat Mora is an amazing writer for today’s world. Her influence on America literature is a great asset and inspiration to future classroom themes and units. Take the poem “Uncoiling” all the way to the bank. Use it to introduce a figurative language unit or a paired text unit on influential women. Stick with womenContinue reading ““Uncoiling” by Pat Mora is such a great introduction poem to a “We are Women, Hear Us Roar” Unit.”
O. Henry Quotes to Introduce an O. Henry Unit-Literary Quotes Friday
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” -Gift of the Magi ” And then I told him that my scheme was to put the whole job through immediately and that we would get the ransom and be off with it by midnight if old Dorset fell in with our proposition.”Continue reading “O. Henry Quotes to Introduce an O. Henry Unit-Literary Quotes Friday”
Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense: for always the inmost becomes the outmost,–and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgement.” Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Be careful what you think inside for it becomes so when comes out on the outside.Continue reading “Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.
This is a phrase that doesn’t get enough press and often is not taught as a training topic like it should be. When we are in elementary settings we teach whole group and then teach on level to each small group. When students move to a middle school level, depending on the school system forContinue reading “Teaching all students to a high level. Teach to the high.”
ELA On The Move 