Mr. Fasano’s English Class

I’ve been very busy finishing up a book about MLA documentation. Coyote Canyon Press hopes to publish it as a paperback original this September. Yes, I know, It’s a pretty quick deadline, which means the book pretty much has taken over my life — the implications of which are long hours at the computer. It [...]

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I haven’t been around here too much this summer. Hope yours is going well.

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Please help support the work I do as a teacher and purchase a copy of this book of wonderful poems by Robert Frost. I selected and edited the poems and wrote the explanatory notes, and Coyote Canyon Press did a great job with their high production standards.
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Coyote Canyon Press is publishing a book of Robert Frost’s early poetry, for which I did the editing, selected the poems, and wrote explanatory notes. The idea was a simple one: gather up the poems from Frost’s first three volumes and write notes for the poems that needed some sort of explanation. The title of [...]

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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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A student of mine, Julio, wanted me to post this video of him and his friends demonstrating their skateboarding skills. That way, as he put it, “everyone [...]

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My neighbor’s dog decided he wanted to wish me a happy Thanksgiving when I took out the garbage. I share his joy because Thanksgiving is one of [...]

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Four very dedicated journalism students stayed until seven o’clock tonight. They worked on honing their skills and completing the first edition of Paw Prints. The paper isn’t completed, but my students’ skills have begun to improve dramatically.
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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.
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Believe it or not, I have a rather scary heart condition, and I need to see a cardiologist on a regular basis for different sorts of tests. Recently I had to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours. I also needed an echocardiogram, a strange experience in which you get to see your ticker on [...]

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