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ELA (Emoji Language Arts)

Can I tell you about this “Hail Mary” lesson I did the other day? I say “Hail Mary” because it was mostly unplanned, thought of in the moment, and was the result of weeks of frustration. It also isn’t specifically "CCSS-aligned” or whatever. It’s also in a similar vein to my “Don’t Fear the Reaper/SNL” lesson. We are working on speeches and how speakers create tone, through repetition or word choice. We started with The Gettysburg Address, to which many kids replied “how can we tell tone if we can’t hear him?” I ultimately played the Wikipedia audio clip, but they were quick to realize that wasn’t particularly helpful. We tried connotation/denotation, we tried vocabulary, we tried focusing on repeated phrases for importance…everything. They saw a wall of text with no way to make meaning of any of it. The next morning, I copied/pasted these emojis onto a slide: 

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This was an awesome author panel at SEYA Book Fest today.  So much fun.

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Because this made me laugh.  

#Preds Forsberg

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Fair Park Nashville. I miss this place even if it was old and out of date. That roller coaster was great. #TBT #ThrowbackThursday.

#tbt #throwbackthursday

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Coney Island

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Santorini, Greece

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Shea utters the magic words

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Pekka Rinne back on the ice for the @predsnhl. This makes me very happy.

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The Vancouver Canucks start a grassroots campaign

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boy u got my heartbeat runnin’ away (｡♥‿♥｡) → Roman Josi

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I can’t tell you how thankful I am for a little infinity.

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After having driven through Atlanta during the ice-pocolypse in January 2012, I will never complain about TN DOT's snow management again.  I cannot believe a city the size of Atlanta was completely shut down and the GA DOT was doing nothing about the ice on I-75, etc. I did not see one salt truck until I was way north of Fulton Co.  It was absolutely ridiculous.

I wasn’t going to say anything but I’m beyond pissed. I wonder if it’s possible for Atlanta to use this snow and ice situation as preparation for next year.

I thought the same thing about the snow last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that…

I guess...

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This exchange between Colin Wilson and Sergei Kostitsyn made me laugh.  Two boys who have shared the Trotz doghouse no doubt understand each other well.  "Tell Barry I said hi."  LOL.  Who knew SK74 had a sense of humor :)

#sk74 #kostitsyn #colin wilson #Preds

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Craziness at the Canucks/Flames game apparently.  Entire opening line for both teams in the box.

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First read of the new year.  Loving it so far.

#stiefvater #ILoveBooks #Scorpio Races