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Domestic Violence Right-to-Know Act Needs YOU, California!
On behalf of my friend, Alexis Moore, President of Survivors in Action, I am posting this appeal. If you are a resident of California, please consider lending your voice to this important debate. Alexis' website is http://alexisamoore.blogspot.com
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: Domestic Violence Prevention and Right-To-Know Act. CALIFORNIA WE NEED ( Read more... ) -
Reading Comfort Zones?
I found this on a blog called, I kid you not, http://bookeywookey.blogspot.com/. What follows is the question posed. Your comments are welcome; my response to it is below.
Do we all have reading comfort zones, I wonder - that is genres or specific types of authors or periods or subjects within which we like to stay, knowing that our reading ( Read more... ) -
Hilarious metaphors found in high school students' essays
I found this at http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/. She had bolded her favorites.
Analogies and metaphors found in high school essays:
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
He spoke with wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a ( Read more... ) -
Johnny the Tar Spot and Barack Obama
When I was a little girl, my mother pointed out to me the areas of the road patched by tar, and told me that those were, in fact, what was left a boy named Johnny, who, just last week, had played in the street and was run over. I didn't know any better, and, hell, at that point the woman hadn't given me any reason to doubt her credibility, so I ( Read more... ) -
Update to Censorship of Pat Conroy's novels
UPDATE: FROM THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (NCTE) ONLINE NEWSLETTER:
The Kanawha County School Board in Kanawha County, WV has proposed instituting a rating system for books following a recent controversy over two novels by Pat Conroy. NCAC and five other groups supporting intellectual freedom submitted the following letter to the ( Read more... ) -
Courage in Patience: a story of hope for those who have endured abuse
Courage in Patience: everyone's story
Hi, I'm Beth Fehlbaum, author of Courage in Patience, which will be published by Kunati in September, 2008.
Courage in Patience is a story that is close to my heart. I've been an English teacher for about ten years, and I've known kids who have left impressions on my heart that will stay with me always. The ( Read more... ) -
Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides, is my hero
On February 21, the Kanawha County (West Virginia) school board will meet to vote on a policy requiring that teachers at Nitro High School notify parents if a novel set for study contains offensive material. Teachers are required to offer an alternative novel for study if the parents do not want their children to read the "offensive" novel.
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Alexis Moore Leads Fight for Domestic Violence Offenders' Database
Alexis Moore, a person who has been very supportive of my book, e-mailed me this morning asking that I spread the word about her need for support of the first bill that her organization, Survivors in Action, has submitted to the California legislature. The bill would create a database of people convicted of domestic violence, no longer allowing ( Read more... ) -
A creative idea for standing against bullying
On Holly Desimone's blog (http://fightforjustice.blogspot.com/), I found an awesome story about two Nova Scotia teenage boys who stood in support of a ninth grader who was being bullied. Check it out-- it's fantastic:
(From a Globe & Mail article)
“David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in ( Read more... )
