Mr. Fasano’s English Class

My students had to draw a creative map of the places in THE GREAT GATSBY. I gave them a worksheet with a list of what needed to be on their maps, and then told them to be creative. To my delight, many of them were. Here are some of the results.

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Yes, when the teacher is away, the kids will play. Witness the above video. I was out last month attending a funeral, so my journalism students took [...]

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The timeline project is going well. I’ve seen a lot of great stuff coming from many of you, and I can’t wait to display your work both in the room and on this page. A student said to me today that this was the first project he’d ever wanted to do . . . ever! [...]

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Tomorrow I will be making an announcement about who our editors will be. I have a lot planned for you. Yes indeed! You’ll be so busy, in fact, that your work will take the place of the research project. In fact, your hard work will make everybody’s research project all the better.
For the past few [...]

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A kid named Zach Endres has posted some remarkable videos on Youtube. I’ve copied his rendition of “The Devil and Tom Walker” and posted it to my Multimedia page. I suspect this was some sort of class project, one for which I’m sure he received an A+. Years ago, creative kids like Zach would’ve been [...]

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From this day forward, my students will be able to download the day’s notes, which essentially will be a digital pix of what was on the whiteboard — no extra charge for the messy handwriting. When I get a Smart Board, doing this sort of thing will be a snap. See the Notes page for [...]

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I’m looking for two students in each of my classes who would be willing to assist us in journalism. I need eight students willing to learn the page layout program InDesign. You also will need to have proficient writing and editing skills because one of your jobs will be to read, edit, and mark up [...]

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[This is not our staff meeting; picture from Web.]
Yesterday at our staff development day seminar, a woman from SMART Technologies demonstrated the use of a smartboard. I’d previously had no knowledge of the thing, but her demonstration filled me we awe and envy.
The smartboard is the latest in digital gadgetry. To get one installed in [...]

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Several members of our Paw Prints staff stayed late to finish typing their articles for the first edition of the paper. We’re doing our best to meet our Thanksgiving week deadline. Be patient. We’re taking baby steps this year. My staff is new and inexperienced, so our learning curve is quite steep.
While my students were [...]

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