Author Events!

Over 40 Franklin students are attending the Portland Literary Arts author event: Sebastian Junger,  Journalist and Academy Award nominee, on Thursday evening 2/23/12. Some will post their reflection of the event HERE. Others will be adding to the Twitter Feed at hashtag #fhsauthors.  Check out their responses after the event.

DANIEL BEATY!   peforming his award winning one man show– Emergency!  Tuesday February 28-10:30 All School Special Student Assembly43 different characters fighting to be free –all played by one amazing man.  Special Assembly Schedule. Remind your friends! Be on time! Students sit with 5th period. Twitter about it afterward at hashtag #fhsauthors.

Or tell us about it by replying HERE (Type in word and spell check. Then copy and paste) Include first name and last initial only. If posting for credit. Make sure to include grade and teacher.

February Announcements and Links

•  2012 Puddly Awards – Powell’s Books.Check out great adult & young adult titles!
  
• Best Books for Teaching-Check out these Teaching for Change- Best Books of 2011
• Black History Month- Check out these links  and also THESE
• Digital Learning Day Resources NEW! on Technology Tools Page
• SLAM DUNK! Thanks to SUN school for offering the Slam Poetry Workshops with DeLuxtheLight Feb 28-April 10. Students will polish and practice pieces to perform at the FHS Poetry Slam on April 17. Cash prizes include $100 first place! Winners go on to Verselandia April 25.

What’s New?

The Toolbox now has even more!  We have added a College and Career Prep Page (Classroom Connections> For Everyone  & On the Success-Avid Tools) with lots of supports and practice tests.  We also have lots more Math Support Links  at our Math page (Classroom Connections) and on our Instructional Resources: Math page (Teacher Resources). There is also one of my favorite new sites for creating a facebook page for fictional or historical figures. My Fake Wall (I will put this on our Technology Tools page)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Costa Rica Diga!

Sandra Childs (me!) is going to Costa Rica from Nov 19-Dec 3 and would love to take you all with her!  Visit the Costa Rica Diga! blog (click here or on right side of Toolbox). Read the pre, during and post travel posts, look at the groovy pictures (once she takes some), check out the resource links, post a question or comment and participate in her travels. Sponsored by Toyota, Childs is one of 26 teachers traveling to Earth University, a cocoa or coffee plantation, several schools, a volcano, and a cloud forest.

National Novel Writing Month

NaNoWriMo is here! It’s not too late to start! Just give yourself 30 days.

Read In at FHS Library!

To celebrate Teen Reads Week students at FHS will sign up in advance to spend the morning of Wed. Oct. 26th reading in the library for the fun of it. All PPS high schools will be participating in a Read In on the same date. We will have our Read In from 8:15 – 10:25 a.m. Comfy furniture + juice and muffins + a good book = Read In. Any questions, feel free to contact Jan Donald, Librarian.