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		<title>Senior Speaker Samples</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for examples of Senior Speeches from other years, refer to the speeches below.
*Note:  Many of these samples were written and performed by two people. While you could choose to do this, there is nothing inherently better or more beneficial to writing a speech with a partner.

Kirby 2011
Alex and Sarah 2004
Andy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons of Moneyball for our Classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Lewis’ recent book-turned-movie titled Moneyball is the story of how Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics more-or-less defied conventional baseball reasoning to maximize the potential of some highly undervalued players.  Though I believe that Michael Lewis over exaggerates both the brilliance of Beane and the ignorance of MLB, he does offer us some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Your Homework on Homework</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=282</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we develop plans to improve student completion rates and performance on homework, we have to begin with a few important questions about why the problem exists.  This is necessary to avoid discarding students as simply lazy or apathetic, when that may not be the case.  Surveying students and talking to them is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stratifying Homework</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=279</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our building’s literacy goal this year, I am focusing on homework practices.  In my first newsletter, I offered some questions to challenge you on the nature of homework in your classroom.  And for this month, I am going to discuss the “structure” of homework.  I will first present a portrait of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Affordances of Multimodal Texts and Their Impact on the Reading Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presentation 
Paper
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		<title>Lit Planning Oct 5th</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=273</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome Lit Planning Committee
Review Purpose and Objectives
Brainstorm Goals
Discuss Rethinking Homework
Potential Goals:
-	Read and discuss a book as a group.
-	What’s on Your Shelf?
-	College Project
-	½ Day Workshop with Katy Carthey
-	Sponsor a One Book One School Event
-	Create a Homework Wiki in Moodle 
Rethinking Homework Discussion Chapt. 1
-	History of homework
o	What can we learn from a look at this history?
-	Laying Bare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Newsletter&#8211; The Homework Debacle</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=269</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vosssm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter the age of the student, the title of the course, the time of year, or the content area, teachers often mention the difficulties they face in getting students to do their homework. The struggle is not new.  Looking across the history of schools in the U.S., you would find similar difficulties throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sr Speaker Samples</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=260</link>
		<comments>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=260#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vosssm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for examples of Senior Speeches from other years, refer to the speeches below.
*Note:  Many of these samples were written and performed by two people. While you could choose to do this, there is nothing inherently better or more beneficial to writing a speech with a partner.  
Alex and Sarah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCA Prep</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=254</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vosssm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the documents you can use for the MCA Prep in 10th grade English Classes.
Cover Sheet
Lesson Plans
Practice Sections (Progress, Elders)
Article of the Week
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		<title>AVReading Newsletter for February 2011</title>
		<link>http://avreading.org/wordpress/?p=253</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone,
Here is the AVReading Newsletter for this month.  It discusses the intensification of the school day and the impact of that on our practices as teachers.  It also offers some textbook reading tips for you and your classes.
In other news, our Literacy Planning Committee is meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, February 2nd) in Room [...]]]></description>
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