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  1. Edulinks

     Science and Math Terms
    Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    These sites provide fun games and materials to help students review science and math terms.

    Maggie's Earth Adventures

    Science Vocabulary Hangman

    APlusMath: Hidden Picture

    NRICH Mathematics Enrichment

  2. Lesson Plans

     Know Your Polygons!
    Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to help them distinguish the key properties that define different types of polygons?

  3. Word Routes

     Mailbag Friday: "Reticent"
    Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Maria C. of Jersey City, NJ writes in with today's Mailbag Friday question: "My coworker always uses the word reticent when he really means reluctant. Isn't he using the wrong word?"

  4. Blog Excerpts

     "Simpsons" Linguistics Redux
    Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Linguist Heidi Harley is back with her fifth annual roundup of language-related jokes on "The Simpsons." Click here for the latest cromulent crop.

  5. Department of Word Lists

     The Tawdry Hucksters of Tripe
    Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Bob Greenman, an award-winning writer, educator, and speaker, has written two outstanding guides to vocabulary enrichment: Words That Make a Difference and More Words That Make a Difference, with illustrative passages from the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly, respectively. We asked Bob to pick some choice words from the second volume (co-authored with his wife, Carol), and he came up with a trio of words exposing the seamy underbelly of Old Hollywood.

  6. Word Routes

     Play It As It Lays
    Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Yesterday, writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker offered a delightful lesson on the perils of learning grammar from rock and roll lyrics. Among the grammatical malefactors are Bob Dylan, whose song "Lay, Lady, Lay" uses the verb lay in an intransitive fashion instead of lie. Likewise, Dylan sang "If not for you, babe, I'd lay awake all night," and "I wanna lay right down and die." But he should get points for using lay in the transitive too, as in: "Lay down your weary tune," or using lay as the proper past-tense form of lie: "I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay." Still, if the foremost bard of American popular music can't be consistent on this point, what hope is there for the rest of us?

  7. Teachers at Work

     It's Only Rock and Roll
    Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker has a simple lesson for her students: Don't learn grammar from rock stars. Here Margaret explains how rock and roll lyrics with non-standard English constructions can often lead students of grammar astray.

  8. Backstory

     Jamie Ford, Author of "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet"
    Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    On a foggy February morning in 1983, fourteen people were gunned down at the Wah Mee club in Maynard Alley, just shy of South King Street in Seattle's Chinatown. It was the worst mass-murder in Washington State history.

  9. Dog Eared

     NBCC Awards
    Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    The National Book Critics Circle has announced its awards for the best books of 2008.

    2666 (fiction)

    The Forever War (nonfiction)

    My Father's Paradise (autobiography)

    The World Is What It Is (biography)

  10. Word Routes

     Banks: the Good, the Bad, and the Zombie
    Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    As the recession worsens, we're all learning far more than we ever wanted to know about the ins and outs of the banking industry, ground zero of the financial meltdown. And we're learning new lingo too: the news these days brings word of good banks, bad banks, zombie banks, and even banksters.
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