The Creative Classroom Experience book

My 4th book, The Creative Classroom Experience, is now available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. It's a collection of some of my work on this site as well as some featured short stories that I've written**, along with some classic short stories from authors like Mark Twain and Ray Bradbury. And a commentary from--yes, it was "him"--Groucho Marx.

Here's the table of contents:

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1.    Commentary on the Creative Classroom Experience: p. 9

2.    “Welcome to the Creative Classroom”: p. 12

3.    Ground Rules and Principles of the Creative Classroom: p. 17

4.    The Creative Classroom Mandate: p. 21

5.    Grammar – Fundamentals of Reading and Writing: p. 25

6.    “Use to/Used to”: p. 27

7.    English is a crazy thing: p. 29

8.    Lay or Lie?: p. 35

9.    Numb about Numbers?: p. 37

10.  Homophones, homonyms, Synonyms, and Antonyms: p. 38

11.  The Perilous Points of Punctuation: p. 41

12.  Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?: p. 44

13.  Underlining and italics: p. 46

14.  Apostrophe marks show ownership: that’s mine!: p. 48

15.  That’s a Capital idea!: p. 51

16.  Quickly qualify quotes!: p. 53

17.  Clever, Crafty, Creative, and Calculating Commas: p. 55

18.  Writing is a good thing!: p. 59

19.  Oh, no, it’s ‘the dreaded Outline’!: p. 62

20.  THINK and brainstorm out your ideas!: p. 66

21.  “A Thesis is a powerful statement,” I declared: p. 70

22.  Who-What-Where-When-Why-How for a Thesis: p. 74

23.  Classic social archetypes (role models) for a Thesis: p. 77

24.  Four Motivating Factors of Society in Literature: p. 79

25.  The Creative Classroom Part II: a focus on literature and short stories and writing: p. 86

26.  Fluid Learning concepts for extrapolation and juxtaposing ideas: p. 87

27.  “What do you do well and how did you learn this?”: p. 89

28.  Topic Sentences are paragraph starters (and cues): p. 93

29.  Planning a Successful Tent Camping Trip: p. 99

30.  Learn to be a student: take notes and be responsible: p. 102

31.  Use transition words like a ladder for successful writing: p. 106

32.  Read good literature to develop critical thinking: p. 111

33.  “The Jungle” – a lesson in critical thinking: p. 113

34.  Using myth as a theme for a paper: p. 116

35.  Odysseus: the man and the myth: p. 117

36.  A myth: “A Modern Woman for the 21^st Century”: p. 123

37.  Go to college and find yourself a career and life: p. 131

38.  Haven’t I seen you somewhere before? Aren’t you famous?:   p. 134

39.  Bird Facts: p. 137

40.  The Renaissance – an outline for 8^th grade: p. 140

41.  Let’s Meet the Renaissance: p. 148

42.  The Renaissance Guild Assignments: p. 151

43.  “I’m (not) Afraid of Public Speaking: p. 171

44.  Poetry for Fun and Learning: p. 174

45.  MLA & APA – how to cite information: p. 179

46.  MLA & APA (and more) citation lessons: p. 182

47.  Even MORE Citation help for MLA/APA: p. 185

48.  Signal/Action Verbs show how an idea is presented: p. 188

49.  Sources for potential reading: science fiction, humor, fiction and more: p. 192

50.  “They Bite” by Anthony Boucher: p. 194

51.  “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury: p. 217

52.  “Jim Wolf and the Wasps” by Mark Twain: p. 250

53.  “Not Wasting a Watermelon” by Mark Twain: p. 255

54.  Great Builder: the Lady and the Brooklyn Bridge: p. 260

55.  “Manna From Heaven” – A one-act play: p. 273

56.  About the Author: p. 296