Sep 25 2005
If you are going into education, or are currently an educator, I urge you to read this article that I found about literacy. It offers some incredibly powerful tactics to improving literacy in younger children. While some of them seem to be common knowledge, they only are effective IF they are used properly. Check out this article on “The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction.”
–Zach
Sep 25 2005
Just finished up my essay on the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. It discussed life during the Japanese internment during WWII after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I always knew about this type of injustice, but had never heard a first-hand story from a primary source. The book is a really easy read and should be required reading for every student at the high school level or above as it sheds light onto one of the largest injustices on American soil.
This essay, like the rest, is in Adobe PDF format, and requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don’t have that program, you can obtain it for FREE directly from Adobe using the link below:
Once you have Acrobat Reader (or another version of Acrobat) installed on your computer, you may read my essay on Farewell to Manzanar. Please right-click and hit “save-as” to save a copy to your computer. I hope that you read the novel first and then my essay to seek clearer understanding of Wakatsuki’s account of injustice.
–Zach
Sep 23 2005
I’m back into the whole eBay thing again. If anyone remembers, I used to be an eBay freak that would buy just about anything that I could. However, this time, I’m selling. If you’re interested in purchasing anything, go for it! I need the money as I’m trying to save for this new Canon EOS 20D camera.
I really didn’t get any homework done like I was supposed to. I only finished my portfolio and did my listening exercises for music. I didn’t get to my open letter or my Farewell to Manzanar essay. Neither of them should be horribly difficult, but I don’t really feel like doing them. I think I’ll just stay home tomorrow night and finish both of them. That way, I can have the rest of the weekend to kick back and relax. Also have to make time for the game on Saturday. It’s the final game of the CBC series and you don’t get much more exciting than that! 🙂
Well, I’m headed off to get a jump-start on my essays.
Goodnight for now,
Zach
P.S. The review of the new Coheed CD should be coming within the next couple days.
