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U-46 teacher travels the globe to enhance her lessons
Chris LaRue has helped grade Advanced Placement exams for the College Board for more than a decade. During a marathon grading session years ago, she heard other teachers talk about cheap travel opportunities for teachers. At the time she didn't know such grants were out there but the tip opened up a world for her -- literally.
LaRue, a teacher in Elgin Area School District U-46's gifted academy, recently spent two weeks in Turkey. She has also visited China and Germany and she hopes to go to Japan next summer.
This year's trip was paid for almost entirely by the Turkish Cultural Foundation though LaRue had to contribute $700 and promise to incorporate some of what she learned into her lesson plans. Neither requirement was a problem for her and LaRue already has multiple lessons in mind for her advanced placement world history, AP European history and AP art history classes.
She has a fully formed lesson about sacred spaces ready to go -- it was part of her application for the trip. Students will learn about how a people's beliefs and practices are reflected in the way they arrange their sacred spaces. Turkey's Suleymaniye Mosque, for example, faces Mecca, as all mosques do.
Her recent visit to the Basilica of St. John and the Hagia Sophia, which has gone from a church to a mosque to a museum, will inform her lesson plan and give students a chance to see pictures she took while she was there.
Giving students examples of travel -- and making sure they know about organizations that offer it at reasonable costs -- is all part of her "meddling," as she calls it.
"I always encourage students to have a global experience," LaRue said.
And many take her up on the recommendation when they get to college and have the opportunity to study abroad.
That's where LaRue got her start in international travel. As a student at Marquette University, she studied in Rome. That experience also gave her an introduction to Turkey, which she said was a very different country back in 1970.
LaRue said Turkey has come a long way, especially given its existence only dates back to the 1920s. Turkey is trying to meet the requirements of full membership in the European Union and LaRue said one current social push is to better respect minorities in the country.
"Hey, aren't we doing that here?" LaRue pointed out. "It's a universal thing -- respect the rights of all people in your country. Every country has their own culture and diversity problems."
The Turkish Cultural Foundation funds trips for teachers to spread understanding of the country within the United States. The tour included visits to sacred spaces, the site of the ancient city of Troy and Gallipoli, where one of the most famous battles of World War I was fought. LaRue and her fellow teachers got to meet other educators, students, artists, professionals and the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.
LaRue plans to brief other U-46 teachers on her travels and share her lesson plans, especially within the World History Department.
"The district is very encouraging of teachers sharing," LaRue said. "In a way it's free professional development."
Planning for a 2014 Turkey trip is already under way. Interested teachers can learn more at turkishculturalfoundation.org. Photos from LaRue's trip can be seen on her blog at larueturkey.tumblr.com.


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So I saw Inglourious Basterds over the weekend. The quick review: it was awesome.
Seriously, don't listen to the haters who slam on Quentin Tarantino just because it's the cool thing to do. Don't listen to the butt-hurt sci-fi nerds who think District 9 is the greatest movie ever made, and since Basterds dethroned it as box office champion, it must be inherently flawed (on a related note, I thought District 9 was decent, but flawed, especially in the way it abruptly ditched the documentary style two-thirds of the way through the film in favour of generic sci-fi nonsense).
Indeed, despite the mixed review from the professional critics, Basterds is the real deal, and definitely up there with Tarantino's best. Of course, what exactly constitutes Tarantino's best is a gargantuan topic all by itself … with the exception of Death Proof (which I've only seen once when it first came out), I like all of his films for a variety of different reasons — Jackie Brown has great performances, Kill Bill is just fun plain fun to watch, etc. To pick just one and declare it head and shoulders above the rest is no easy task.
But enough about Tarantino's previous exploits — this review is all about his latest work, Inglourious Basterds. Well, it's not really a review so much as it is a random series of thoughts pertaining to Basterds. No in-depth analysis here, kids — after all, I've only seen the movie once while in a packed theatre — just a few simple observations from the film.
- Brad Pitt was awesome. Sure, it wasn't the greatest "acting", per se — in fact, it was campy and hammy as all hell — but every time he was on screen you were sure to be entertained (especially the scene in the theatre where he absolutely butchers the Italian language).
- For the people complaining that it was "all talk and no action", well, it's a Tarantino flick — what the hell were you expecting? Okay, so the final act of Kill Bill Vol. 1 is an exception to the rule, but for the most part, Basterds follows the Tarantino model to perfection.
Is there a lot of dialogue in Basterds? Sure, but if anything its dialogue serves a much greater narrative purpose than those of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. While those films featured bloated pop culture references that ultimately humanized the thugs and thieves — hey, Jules and Vincent are chatting about burgers, they seem like likable dudes — the conversations in Basterds creates palpable tension and a sense of dread that has you fearing for the characters' safety, as the dialogue is usually just a cover for the subtext of hiding / uncovering true identities in life-or-death, make-or-break situations (Col. Landa in the farmhouse, the Gestapo officer in the pub's basement, etc.).
- Hitler finally gets what's coming to him. Yes, I can understand why some people might be upset about Tarantino's "alternate ending" to World War II, especially those who say it disrespects the actual soldiers that sacrificed so much marching into Berlin to end the war. But hey, this was never advertised as an historical re-enactment — it's a work of fiction that just happens to be set in Nazi-occupied France and uses some "stock characters" from that time period (Hitler, Goebbels, etc.). It's an alternate reality, an alluring "What If?" scenario — nothing more, nothing less.
And besides, since when is killing Hitler a bad thing? In real life, he never really got his comeuppance. Sure, the Nazis lost the war, but nobody actually got the chance to shoot Hitler down, riddle his corpse with bullets, then blow up the corpse in a fiery inferno. The history books say that it didn't go down in that manner, but we all wish it did. Although they do say that the winner writes the history books … so why not have a Jewish hit squad take down the Fuhrer? Hitler deserved to die, anyway, if only for that wheezy, inhaling laugh of his. What an annoying jerk!
- Nice to see that Mike Myers still exists and that he didn't hang himself after the failure of The Love Guru. Sure, he was basically playing an elderly Austin Powers, but still, maybe some of that Tarantino magic will rub off on him and he'll get his career back on track.
- Even if they despised the movie, all of the critics agreed that the acting of Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa absolutely stole the show. And I definitely concur, Landa was a superb villain. Of course, the question remains — when he served Shoshanna that glass of milk in the restaurant, did he know who she was? The logical answer is that he couldn't possibly know, having never even seen her face before, and that it was all a coincidence carefully constructed to make the audience worry for Shoshanna's safety. But you know … Landa did have the same menacing look in his eyes as when he was interrogating the French farmer and revealed that he knew all along that Shoshanna's family was hiding under the floorboards …
- If there was on area that Basterds fell short, it was with the soundtrack — it just wasn't as memorable or catchy as the music found in Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill. Perhaps a better appreciation of the soundtrack would come with multiple viewings, but at first glance nothing really stood out like Miserlou or Battle Without Honor or Humanity.
All in all, Inglourious Basterds is undoubtedly one of my favourite movies of the year and I definitely recommend checking it out. Due to its 1940s setting there is a distinct lack of pretentious pop culture references, which should make the movie more palatable to even the harshest of Tarantino's critics.
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As anyone with a computer on which to bang out their disapproval can tell you, there's been a decided lack of magic this season on "American Idol."
The contestants are lackluster to the point where Crystal Bowersox, the rootsy, whiskey-voiced singer — who in previous seasons would have been escorted out the door by the top 10 — is considered the front-runner. The judges are varying degrees of useless: too nonsensical, too timid, too enthusiastically clinical, too already out the door. And Ryan Seacrest ... oy, don't get me started on him.
The host's jumpy nincompoopery notwithstanding, though, there seems to be a more fundamental shift in the show's very goals. It used to be that "Idol" celebrated mass appeal and aimed to discover a pop star whom we could all, in theory, agree on. It presented itself as the great dream machine of the new century.
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Now "Idol" seems to have abandoned the dream altogether, and is emphasizing niche appeal instead. No wonder the contestants this season haven't been breaking a sweat or taking any kind of risks — nobody's competing against one another anymore.
They're just doing their respective things and getting eliminated whenever, satisfied that they've gotten enough exposure to turbo-boost their careers. The contestants stay confident in the knowledge that they never "betrayed" themselves by, say, putting down the guitar and being anything other than a watered-down Jonny Lang, Casey James.
Conformity is the name of the game
Despite the show's reputation for conformity at all costs, it wasn't always like this. Contestants were once expected to run the gauntlet of a whole host of different styles in order to make it to the end. Versatility was a virtue.
It's not for nothing that Kelly Clarkson's most celebrated performance wasn't any of her three Aretha Franklin songs or anything resembling her later pop-rock hits, but "Stuff Like That There" from Big Band Night. Similarly, Carrie Underwood's cover of Heart's power ballad "Alone" is widely considered her crowning moment.
This season, by contrast, the contestants aren't just expected — but are encouraged — to make the themes conform to what they do, rather than vice versa. There's no denying that that's been a tactic in the past: Chris Daughtry was notorious for turning the dial for every song — from Johnny Cash to Stevie Wonder to Bryan Adams — to "maximum Creed," but it's never been taken up by just about the entire lineup at once. Instead of exploring contestants' stylistic ranges and discovering their untapped strengths, we're watching them dig in at the first spot of cover and wait their opponents out. It's trench warfare, with melisma.
In that sense, this season's Shania Twain show was a masterstroke despite seeming at first glance like an oddly limiting choice. (She probably has the smallest song catalogue of any single-performer theme in "Idol" history.) But as Twain admitted, her songs are designed to be molded to any genre. Her 2002 album "Up!" was released in three different mixes for three different markets. That made her the ideal artist to be covered this season, allowing the singers to honor her by disregarding her originals entirely.
The judges seem to have given up on the prospect of a multifaceted, pan-genre winner as well. If the contestants won't budge from the specific thing they do, the question then becomes: Is the thing they're doing saleable? It's clearly on the judges' minds. They don't talk about talent or artistry anymore, though the word "artist" is certainly tossed around enough to make the contestants seem a lot more substantial than they actually are.
What they've started talking about most of the time is marketing. Any time Simon Cowell refers to a contestant as "relevant" or Kara DioGuardi mentions the "format" where the singer could fit in, it's purely business talk.
After wee Aaron Kelly's performance of Twain's "You've Got a Way," Simon told him, "This is the kind of record, if you're going to make records, that you should make." Granted, that's been the subtext of the show from day one, not to mention probably an accurate reflection of an increasingly fragmented music industry. For some reason, though, the judges are just flat out admitting it this season.
That's been at the core of a lot of Simon's arguments with Kara: They're fighting over which radio stations to market the contestants to. In previous seasons, they wouldn't have bickered about, say, whether Kelly would do better in country or in pop. They would've simply marveled at or tsk-tsked what he could do in one or both.
The judges may couch it in terms of the singers not knowing who they are, but it's really just a problem of uncertainty over the best promotional push to give them. That's one reason Simon usually gets a twinkle in his eyes whenever Crystal Bowersox performs. He's thinking, "I know how — and where — to make money off of this girl."
It's not a new look for Simon, and "get back in your box" has been a boilerplate judges' comment of long standing. But the singlemindedness with which they've insisted that the contestants stick with what works for them — the push to get James to take a risk has been about his one-note performances, not about his stylistic consistency — has given away the game more openly than ever.
And the singers have been all too willing to play along. They may not ever achieve the level of broad popularity as Clarkson or Underwood, but they're not interested in it. The audience at home might not be, either. But it would be nice to know that somebody on "Idol" at least dreamed about it.
Marc Hirsh is a writer in Somerville, Mass.


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AMC Renews Talking Dead and Comic Book Men
AMC announced today a second season pick-up for its unscripted series Comic Book Men and Talking Dead. Comic Book Men is executive produced by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), Charlie Corwin's Original Media (LA Ink, Storm Chasers, Swamp People) and Elyse Seiden (Red State). The series continues to delve into fanboy culture by following the antics in and around Smith's New Jersey comic shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. Talking Dead, the network's first live after show that serves as a platform for discussion for AMC's series The Walking Dead, is executive produced by Michael Davies and co-executive produced by Jen Kelly from Embassy Row. Chris Hardwick (Nerdist; G4) is the host. Season two of both series consists of 16 half-hour episodes.
"Pinch my fat ass, 'cause I must be dreaming! A thousand thank you's wouldn't cover the gratitude I'm feeling right now. And as you might imagine, everyone at SModcast Pictures is in love with everyone at AMC today! Rest assured, Walt, Bry, Mike, Ming and I are suited up and ready to hit the ice for our second season with Team AMC," said Smith.
"AMC set out to build shows around authentic characters and original worlds, and Comic Book Men really delivers on both of these. Charlie Corwin and Kevin have created a truly unique show that is funny and informative — whether you like comic books or not; and the guys from The Stash are the kind of real life experts we always wanted to build the show around," said Joel Stillerman, AMC's EVP of original programming, production and digital content. "Talking Dead is just great synergy and it gives our audience a destination to continue the conversation about The Walking Dead. We are thrilled that Chris is back to lead the discussion. He is genuinely knowledgeable about the genre, and truly entertaining."
"Talking Dead has been an amazing experience and I cannot pile enough hugs and thanks onto AMC for renewing it. I CAN'T WAIT for Season 3 of Walking Dead, so that we can finally talk about Rick meeting [SPOILER] and [SPOILER]-ing him with a heavy-duty [SPOILER] at the [SPOILER]. And let's not forget all the rest of the [SPOILER]s getting in on the action! [EXPLETIVE] me! It's going to be great…,"said Hardwick.
Comic Book Men allows viewers to see the Secret Stash's staff and customers geek out over mind-blowing pop culture artifacts and the legends behind them. Leading the crew behind the Secret Stash counter are moody manager Walt, uber-nerd Mike, career slacker Bryan and Ming, the shop's go-to whipping boy. As the team buys, sells and discovers the treasures of the comic collecting world, they share all the juicy details with Kevin through their outrageous podcast, which is woven throughout the series. AMC's season one of Comic Book Men reigns as the most engaging reality program on television.*
*Source: Nielsen TV Brand Effect (IAG), STD (09/12/11 – 4/29/12), A18-49 & A25-54, premiere episodes. All measured primetime broadcast and cable programs included.
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A moment of silence is marked on the steps of the Massachusetts State House one week since the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Boston observed a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday – exactly one week after an annual springtime rite in the city was shattered by a pair of explosions that killed three people and injured more than 200, including some who lost legs.
From the Watertown police department whose officers searched their town for a bombing suspect to the Massachusetts State House to the neighborhood where a little boy who died in the attack had lived, the city remembered those it lost.
A full minute of silence was observed at the request of Gov. Deval Patrick, Mayor Thomas Menino, and charitable organization One Fund Boston. The White House announced that President Obama marked the occasion, as did the New York Stock Exchange. Governors in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut asked residents of their states to take a minute to commemorate those killed and injured as well.
Earlier Monday, a funeral for victim Krystle Campbell, 29, at St. Joseph's Church in Medford was packed to overflowing, with a thousand more people standing outside. Gov. Patrick was joined inside by Attorney General Martha Coakley and Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley.
"The great irony was it was so peaceful, loving, and supportive, and we were all there for a senseless, angry, horrific tragedy," Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn said after the ceremony. "Everybody knew her as someone with a great sense of humor. They say at times she was a little loud but everybody loved her for it."
About one thousand members of Teamsters Local 25 gathered at St. Joseph's Church earlier in the day after the Westboro Baptist Church said they planned to demonstrate, according to local president Sean O'Brien. But no members of Westboro showed up, he said.
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On Sunday, a wake was held for Campbell, and lines stretched out the door and down the street from the funeral home. The memorial, which was scheduled to last an hour, went on for five, WHDH reported.
Medford draped a 45-by-90-foot American flag across the front of city hall on Monday morning in honor of Campbell and the other victims. McGlynn said he had the flag commissioned after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Two-year-old Wesley Brillant of Natick, Massachusetts kneels in front of a memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings near the scene of the blasts on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, April 21, 2013.
At Boston University, where Chinese graduate student Lu Lingzi, 23, was working toward a master's degree in statistics before being killed in the explosions near the marathon finish line, a public memorial was planned for 7 p.m. Monday night.
A memorial scholarship has been instituted in Lu's memory.
"There isn't an individual at BU who didn't have some connection to people who were there," university trustee Kenneth Feld said in a release from the school.
Over the weekend, more balloons and teddy bears were added to a makeshift memorial for 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, who died last Monday as well. His mother Denise and sister Jane, 7, were wounded in the blast; Denise required brain surgery and Jane lost a leg to the pressure-cooker bombs set off on the race sidelines.
The Richard family thanked law enforcement for "a job well done" in a statement released after the capture of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Richard was remembered at a packed mass on Sunday at the family's St. Ann Parish in Dorchester, where neighbors have said his parents are active community members.
"Our entire community shares the grief and suffering felt by our young family," the parish's Father Sean Connor said in a letter on the church's website. "We can only imagine the suffering that the Richard family carries today, as a result of the Boston Marathon tragedy, will be with them each day of their lives."
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Running shoes are placed at a makeshift memorial for victims near the finish line of the Boston Marathon bombings at the intersection of Newbury Street and Darthmouth Street.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology mourned the loss of a popular campus safety officer who only got to enjoy a little more than a year on the job. Officer Sean Collier was shot and killed by the suspected bombers late on Thursday night, police said. The men shot the 26-year-old Collier multiple times while he was sitting in his vehicle, according to authorities.
A memorial service for Collier has been planned for Wednesday, April 24, at noon, according to a release from MIT police. Collier's family has requested that his wake and funeral services remain private.
The proceeds from a Brahms performance at MIT on Sunday that drew hundreds of singers from local choruses were donated to One Fund Boston. The school also created the Sean Collier Memorial fund, which will support an award for individuals "who demonstrate the values of Officer Collier," according to a letter from University President L. Rafael Reif on Monday.
On Monday, the areas where the blasts occurred were transitioning from crime scene to street scene. Mementos left at a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street are being moved to a park at nearby Copley Square; city workers on Sunday began removing the running shoes, flowers, and notes left by friends, family, and strangers with the goal of having all pieces of the memorial moved by the end of the week.
Students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where alleged bomber and Suspect 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was enrolled as a sophomore, planned to observe the minute of silence. A student vigil on campus was planned for 5 p.m.
The mayor's office released a five-step plan on Sunday to reopen the area around the finish line on Boylston Street that included testing buildings near the blast sites and removing debris.
"Nearly a week ago our city took a deep breath and was forced to dive into a pool of uncertainty and fear," Menino said in a press release. "Friday as our officers reported to the world 'we got him,' a huge sigh of relief was felt across our great city and nation so now it is time for us to start moving our city forward."
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Cheers filled the streets after a Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive but wounded Friday night — following a daylong manhunt that shut down the city.
- 'Adorable' boy, 8, mourned after Boston Marathon blasts
- Second Boston Marathon bombing victim identified as 29-year-old woman
- Outpouring of grief for third Boston victim, Chinese university student
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By Sharon Kapnick
It's no secret that Pinot Noir grapes are difficult to grow. The delicate, thin-skinned berries are often called temperamental, finicky, troublesome, demanding, high maintenance, fickle, fussy, capricious, headstrong, challenging and/or headache-inducing (sound like anyone you know?). That's partly because they're quite particular about growing conditions and prone to mildew and viruses. And the slightest weather change can have a dramatic impact on their well-being.
"Just whisper 'rain' to Pinot Noir, and it rots," George Bursick told me when he was winemaker at Sonoma's J Vineyards. Julia Vazquez, former winemaker at DeLoach Vineyards in Sonoma's Russian River Valley, put it a little differently: "You can do almost anything to Zin, and it's still Zin. You look at Pinot Noir wrong, and it can turn on you." According to Vazquez, the varietal demands "patience, wisdom and more patience."
More dramatic still is Michael Hill Smith, co-owner of Australia's Shaw & Smith winery: "You don't have to be clinically insane to make Pinot," he said at a seminar I attended, "but it's a distinct advantage."
While winemakers have to contend with many hurdles when crafting Pinot Noir, they're drawn to it because of its many wonderful qualities (more about them later) and its captivating, alluring mystique. And because, as Matt Kramer writes in his book New California Wine, "a great Pinot Noir brings you as close to God as any wine can."
Pinot Noir, you see, elicits extremely strong feelings, and Pinotphiles are always eager to talk about it. As Bouchaine winemaker Michael Richmond points out on its website, "Pinot Noir … evokes passionate discussion among those under its spell."
Among them is Burgundy-born wine impresario Jean-Charles Boisset, president of Boisset Family Estates, for whom Pinot Noir is simply a necessity, practically like air. "If a day goes by without it," he once told me, "I don't feel right. I feel a portion of my blood is Pinot." Among the words he used to describe it are refined, sophisticated, romantic, seductive, ethereal, almost mystical at times, charismatic, mysterious, elusive, sensual, whimsical, silky, lacy, sexy, racy, poetic and inspirational. He's obviously head-over-heels for the varietal.
Boisset was born into Pinot Noir, but Sonoma winemaker Greg La Follette of his eponymous winery never expected to work with it. "I always thought I would work with something much more sane," he said. "But people kept sucking me in to Pinot," starting in the late '80s and then the early '90s at Beaulieu Vineyards with the great influential winemaker André Tchelistcheff. "I kept getting dragged, usually kicking and screaming, into the world of Pinot winegrowing." Eventually La Follette surrendered, saying to himself, Pinot, take me, I'm yours. "Having done so, I was a much happier person," he added, "spending a lot less money on therapy and actually starting to enjoy the thrilling roller-coaster ride on which Pinot began to take me."
While meeting with California winemakers Gary Sitton of Clos du Bois and Scott Kelley of Estancia recently, I asked them about the vagaries of making Pinot Noir. "It's not hard to make, it's hard to grow," Sitton said, "hard to get right on the field. And it changes [more than other varietals] from site to site." He added via email: "Among red wines, Pinot Noir has the least latitude for error. It shows flaws more readily … and has to be handled more gently." Kelley agreed. "It shows everything you do to it," he said.
While it may be hard to produce good Pinot Noirs, the wines are exceedingly easy to drink. Pinot Noirs are loved for their velvety, voluptuous nature; satiny texture, aromatic complexity, depth and food friendliness. They can be charming, entrancing, elegant, ephemeral, smooth and/or subtle. Most Pinot Noirs are lower in tannins and lighter in body than many other reds, and therefore more versatile. And their medium-to-high acidity enhances their compatibility with food.
Recommended Wines
Although winemakers may not use it when explaining the difficulties of producing good Pinot Noir, the language of love is the language used to describe the wines. Here, then, are some California Pinot Noirs to beguile you. (You can supply some of your own loving adjectives.)
More than half are from the 2009 vintage, which was an excellent growing year. According to the Wine Spectator, it produced "wines of uncommon finesse, marked by purity and density of flavor, showing delicacy coupled with great structure." They are simply wonderful.
Clos du Bois North Coast 2009 (SRP* $14.99): Aromas and flavors of cherry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, vanilla and spice. Smooth tannins, silky texture, well balanced, delicious. Excellent value.
Estancia Monterey County Pinnacles Ranches 2009 (SRP $15.99): Aromas and flavors of blackberry and black cherry. Earthy. Excellent value.
Wild Horse Central Coast 2010 (SRP $20): Aromas and flavors of cherry, pomegranate, cranberry and spicy red fruits.
DeLoach Russian River Valley 2010 (SRP $24): Aromas and flavors of Bing and black cherry, strawberry and cranberry. Hand harvested, well balanced, elegant.
Estancia Reserve Santa Lucia Highlands 2008 (SRP $25): Aromas and flavors of black cherry, raspberry, plum, blueberry and spice. Silky tannins, medium to full bodied, intense.
Robert Mondavi Carneros 2010 (SRP $27): Aromas and flavors of blackberry and other black fruit, raspberry, red currant and other red fruit. Elegant.
La Follette Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Coast 2009 (SRP $39.99): The Sangiacomo family works closely with Greg La Follette to get consistently concentrated fruit. Aromas and flavors of raspberry and red cherry. Supple tannins. Has the refined balance and seductive texture La Follette strives for.
La Follette Van der Kamp Vineyard Sonoma Mountain 2009 (SRP $39.99): Aromas and flavors of red fruit and spice. Intensely aromatic, structured, Old-World style; complex. Features eight different Pinot clones, which are individually handpicked as each vine matures. A beautiful wine.
DeLoach Russian River Valley O.F.S. 2009 (SRP $40): Aromas and flavors of blackberry, black cherry, raspberry and rose petals. Silky, well balanced, medium bodied. A spectacular wine. Created completely by hand using ancient Burgundian techniques.
Robert Mondavi Carneros, Napa Valley Reserve 2009 (SRP $65): Aromas and flavors of blueberry, black cherry and raspberry. Velvety tannins, balanced acidity, powerful yet subtle. Hand harvested and sorted.
Wild Horse Cheval Sauvage Santa Maria Valley 2008 (SRP $65): Aromas and flavors of red and black fruit, including black cherry, pomegranate and cranberry. Concentrated and intense.
*Wines can usually be found for less–sometimes considerably less–than the SRP (suggested retail price). Check out wine-searcher.com to get an idea of actual prices.
Note: I received samples of these wines.


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Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
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Longwood, Florida
Trumbull, Connecticut
Students' weekend adventures make the headlines in this lesson that uses personal events to have young students practice authentic writing. This recurring lesson, which is meant to be conducted each Monday, asks students to write about one "newsworthy" event or activity from their weekend. Each session includes a 10-minute writing minlesson based on what students have demonstrated that they need to know from the previous week. Students then write for approximately 20 minutes, applying their knowledge about spelling and grammar as they work. Students become reviewers as they assess their writing before sharing it with the class.
Sipe, L.R. (2001). Invention, convention, and intervention: Invented spelling and the teacher's role. The Reading Teacher, 55(3), 264273.
- It is important to recognize that teachers' activities during the drafting stage of writing, when children are first getting down ideas, must not inhibit children's willingness and desire to write.
- In interactive writing, students are actively engaged each time they write using what they already know about writing and spelling.
- Interactions between the student and an "expert other" are crucial for scaffolding understanding with a variety of instructional techniques.
Fraser, J., & Skolnick D. (1994). On their way: Celebrating second graders as they read and write. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
This book includes a weekly "weekend news" writing activity that also has students generate their own set of criteria for evaluating their writing.


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Put the force on yourself – Personality Development
Put the force on yourself – Personality Development
The world is full of people who are waiting for somebody to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescues. These people are waiting for a bus on streets where no buses pass. If they don't take charges of their lives and put the force on themselves, they can end up waiting forever and that is what people do.
Only about 2% of people can work entirely without direction. We call these people "leaders." This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can, if you decide to be.
To reach your full potential, you must form the habit of putting the pressure on yourself and not waiting for someone else to come along and do it for you.
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