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It Takes a Village…and the Village Gotta Eat

8 Dec 2016

Last Friday, I returned to DuBois Elementary eager after not seeing the students for two weeks. Post-holiday, we approached writing about the pursuit of happiness by way of two of our basic necessities…food and […]

Nothing Can Stop Us: Stairs and other Metaphors

23 Nov 2016

On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, the DuBois students and I returned to a concept we had touched upon the previous week—vocabulary. It is so important that student writers strive to strengthen their vocabularies, but […]

Hello Class! Hello Mrs. C! Hello Poetry!

20 Nov 2016

I met some of the students at Dubois Elementary a few weeks ago when I went to meet Ms. Dydo, the teacher I will be working with, and was immediately impressed by them. There […]

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