Is language encoded in DNA? How much is built in? Acquiring Language is different than learning. Are verbal errors really errors? (We are trying to make the irregular, regular.) Children don’t know how to truly speak incorrectly. When there are errors that no child would make, it is assumed that …
Disclaimer: The following Weekly Authentic is senseless. It has purpose only to me, and I’m still trying to figure out what that is. I share it with you only to see if you can find meaning before I get to it. I just felt like I had to say these …
Discussion Questions for this episode of The West Wing: What did Josh mean when he said that “they” want to kill all of us the same amount? Why does Josh’s analogy make sense: Islamic Extremists is to Islamic as KKK is to Christianity? What are the specific grievances that terrorists …
Core 1: Discuss-On: What do we learn about your brain (way of thinking) by reading your Stream-Of-Consciousness Read your Stream-Of-Consciousness piece to at least two other people and ask them: Is this a true Stream-Of-Consciousness piece according to our definitions? What do you think I am able to do with …
Cores 1-4: My musical Weekly Authentic. Core 1: Write-On: Do a mind wandering exercise. Start with one image (A squirrel enjoying a particularly tasty nut, a baloon floating in the air, a huge crap that your dog took on the stairs that you tried to clean up last night but …
Cores 1-4: Go over the Language Arts instructions for your SLC. Show off the new Authenticity Awards. Explore some good Building Comments: Building Comment #1 Comment Building…9/11 Core 1: Discuss-On: Do we have the power to create new genres of writing? How? Distribute the Genre Master List and discuss the …
Cores 1-4: Re-Introduce the concept of a Building Comment and show example. Take a look at a controversial post. Is it inappropriate or not? Afix your signature to the Discovery Blogging Rules for 2006-2007. Go down to the library to work on Nominating, Commenting (Building or regular), or writing your …
Like Jeanne Simpson, Karl Fisch, Anne Davis, and Darren Kuropatwa before me, I decided it was important to flesh out blogging rules for my classes. I took much guidance from these four fantastic resources, but because these limits will most affect my students, I believe that they should be the …
Interesting Animal Grammar Article Animals do not have the capacity for generative grammar. They are committed to the behavioral form of learning language. Another article described the genetic link of stuttering. Metaphor as thought. (My contribution) A grammar is the derivation of understanding (not meaning, not sense) from syntactical and …
When I read this piece for the fourth and fifth time, I really got it. SoccerLover did a great job picking something that I could really connect to. She picked a representation of life through books that I find tantalizingly fulfilling. It did leave me with a few questions, though. …