Thursday, 17 August 2006
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Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
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What is up with the silent q? For almost every child, they can remember when they read The Diary of Anne Frank. If you recollect, there were times when her family would spell her name differently, including with a Q. Well my friend's and my odd senses of humor thought it would be funny to put the silent q on my name. So I did and it stuck with key members of my high school life. Then the silent q disappeared for about 4 years until I found my way back into the high school classroom. As a teacher I wanted to see how many students would believe that I had a silent Q on the end of my name. I really didn't know how this affected my students until the annual assessments. My principal called me into his office asking me why around 30% of my students spelled my last name with a Q? Opps! Still funny to me 3 years later.
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i bought the keychain at www.bushslastday.com i bought three of them to share! we're in totally opposite work environments. i don't think you can get hired at my school if you're a republican! (charter schools...)
i haven't totally given up on the spray sunblock, but i do look like an alien with my white dots and white fingerprints. i'm sure i'll get tan enough in kenya to erase all of that!