Showing posts with label Educational concepts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Educational concepts. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2024

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 21st 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 8th 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



Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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