Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off Thursday for an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Here’s a McClatchy-Tribune OnePage that takes a look at their final voyage.
To download the page, click on the following link: http://legacy.grandforksherald.com/pdfs/20110221_DISCOVERY.pdf
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How many of you can name the four presidents featured on Mount Rushmore? Here’s a McClatchy-Tribune OnePage that highlights the four presidents immortalized on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Activity: Have students read the article and then quiz them on the fast facts included on the page.
To download the article, click on the following link: http://legacy.grandforksherald.com/pdfs/20110214_RUSHMOREr.pdf
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There is a new blog on AreaVoices you should check out, especially if you have students in Grand Forks Public Schools. The blog is called “4MyFuture” and is produced by the Grand Forks Public Schools Career and Character Education department.
“4MyFuture” is a blog devoted to the providing of Career and Character Education for all stages of a student’s life – elementary school, middle school, high school, and post secondary options. The authors of the content posted on the blog are staff of the Career Education and Character Education departments of the Grand Forks Public Schools. They intend to use the site to enhance existing programs by providing information to students, parents, community members, and other interested parties on a variety of topics under the umbrella of Career and Character Education.
Whether the individual posts are career-related articles, character reminders, research-based studies, upcoming activities, or department news and reminders, they hope that the “4MyFuture” content provides readers the foundation to take ownership in their career and character decisions throughout their educational and personal life.
Visit “4MyFuture” by clicking on the following link: ttp://4myfuture.areavoices.com/
Here is a McClatchy-Tribune OnePage that talks about the current situation in Egypt. Have students read the article. Then have them find the five newspaper W’s (Who, what, where, when, why) and the H (How) of the story. Write the answers on a piece of paper.
To download the article, click on the following link: http://legacy.grandforksherald.com/pdfs/EGYPTcropped.pdf
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Are you looking for a fun project for your students? How about submitting an entry in the grandforksherald.com Valentine’s Day Haiku Poetry Contest!
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, generally consisting of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. English haiku does not adhere to this strict syllable count, the typical length being around 10-14 syllables.
How does the contest work?
Submit your original Valentine’s Day themed haiku poem at http://www.grandforksherald.com/pages/haiku and readers will vote for their favorite!
Submissions accepted until 12:00 noon on February 7th.
Voting runs 12:00 noon on February 7th until 12:00 noon on February 10th.
Winner will be contacted February 11th.
Are there prizes? Yes. The winning submission will receive a Valentine’s Day bouquet of flowers from AllisoNicole’s Interior Design and Floral!
Some haiku poets are concerned with their haiku being expressed in one breath, and the extent to which their haiku focus on “showing” as opposed to “telling”. This is the genius of haiku using an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without “telling all”. Or as Matsuo Basho puts it, “The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”
Check out examples on the more detailed information is available at these Wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English
- Source: Wikipedia.org
