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I’m Deborah, author of this site and the resources you find here. I love sharing language arts teaching tips with educators, and you’ll find ideas and resources geared mainly to middle and high school students here. If you need help finding something, please use the contact form to get in touch. I’m glad to help.

Blogging…Making Time…and Implementing CCS

I have been trying my hand at blogging for a short while, but I think I have been missing the point. Sorry folks, but I haven’t been posting every day. I have been reading some tips for beginning bloggers, and the number one tip says to POST DAILY. Wow! I

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Testing is Over…Now What?

Well, I haven’t had a minute to post anything since we have spent the last month preparing for testing! Today, it was finished. The culmination of a year’s work, is now over. However, school is not, and Monday only comes too soon. We have three more weeks of school, and

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The Hunger Games is on fire for many, but not all

The Hunger Games has just been released in theaters and promises to be a huge blockbuster rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. Many teachers are teaching the novel (as well as the other books, Catching Fire and Mockingjay) in their classrooms and looking for educational activities and resources to go with the trilogy. The

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Do a Good Deed Every Day

When I was in the Girl Scouts, we were taught to do a good deed daily. It was our motto. I sometimes wonder how many of us live by this motto, or has it gone out of style? My students seem surprised by it, and most have never heard of it. I share

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