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Students of Mr. Jay Rehak at Whitney Young Magnet High School
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teachers and staff at Whitney Young who are interested in and like to write.
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Fresh Ink - Most Recent Content
The six most recent lessons or stories.
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The most recent comments
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The Allure of Thomasina
21 min 6 sec ago
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Arcadia - A General Discussion
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Silent reading vs Reading in class
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The Allure of Thomasina
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Arcadia - A General Discussion
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Arcadia - A General Discussion
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The Allure of Thomasina
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Silent reading vs Reading in class
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The Allure of Thomasina
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Arcadia - A General Discussion
9 hours 12 min ago
The 10 Most Recent Audio Files to be posted
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Tue, 2013-04-09 00:49
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Mon, 2013-04-08 21:01
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Most Recent Illuminated Text
Well-Worn (Popular) Text
Lessons and handouts sorted by views - though not necessarily by downloads.
Illuminated Text (both Flash and Power Point) sorted by views though not necessarily by downloads.
- Cat in the Rain by Jenny Lee
- "Indian Camp" - Illuminated text by Jesus Alonso
- Illuminated text on Interchapter V by Maria Verdos & Carli Segal
- The House on Mango Street - An Illuminated Text example
- "House" an Illuminated Text by Norberto Rivera and Danny Chan
- "Sally" an Illuminated Text by Marjorie Easley and Denisha Brown
- Peacekeepers by Jenny Lee & M. Rodriguez
- Won't You Join Up? An Illuminated Text by Beata Kasiarz & Saquina Haque
- Sonnet 97 an Illuminated Poem by Alex Nuttall and Alex Galus
- Sonnet 46 - "Mine Eye and Heart" an Illuminated Text by Toni Qui and E. Yau
Audio sorted by numbers of plays.
- A Day in the Booth
- The murder of Emmett Till - A Sound Portraits Production
- "Indian Camp" - A class discussion of Ernest Hemingway's story - 2009 - 4th Period
- Beautiful sounds of Whitney Young by Sean (Yixion) Liu
- Go Dog Go - Stephen Booth and Literary Criticism - 9th Period - 2011
- The Three Witches - 5th Period
- To Jane - A Song by Alaina Stacey, inspired by Catcher in the Rye
- The Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale: A Class Discussion
- The Sounds of Whitney Young, Elizabeth Mucha, 2008
- James Joyces Counterparts - A Class Discussion May 13, 2011
Forum topics sorted by number of responses
- Should students be routinely quizzed to determine if they have read the assigned text?
- What is (and should be) the role of technology in the classroom?
- Should teachers interject their own political beliefs into the classroom?
- A clash of symbols: does the teaching of ideas such as "symbols," and "theme" help or hurt a student's understanding of the text
- Why I became (or want to become) a teacher
- Should teachers friend their current students on Facebook?
- Is there a way to decrease the amount of cheating in our classrooms?
- Rudeness in Class
- Should English Teachers spend time talking about what an author meant?
- Keeping to the Text
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