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Subject to its Terms of Use November 9, 2009 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/100050410.html?nid=3716 = Text I'm reading a fascinating book professor Mary Carruthers called The Book of Memory tinyurl.com/yk8d2au This is a study of what memory ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/350050235.html?nid=3716 Some Books On My Shelf Did you all catch the article in the Times about new views of the Battle of Agincourt? tinyurl.com/ykg235l If you, o... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/580050258.html?nid=3716 The HF Seminar Clarified Something For Me -- And I Hope For You -- About K-12 Nonfiction As we discussed historical fiction, I suddenly came to ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/340050234.html?nid=3716 Both I selected the passages from March because I see in them examples of what I treasure as well as what I dislike in HF. Oddly enough the... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/120050212.html?nid=3716 Some Links, Courtesy of Monica My Travels With Alice -- talk she gave at a conference we both attended Blog posts tinyurl.com/ylpl6o2... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1930050193.html?nid=3716 So fellow seminarians, we've had -- and I hope continue to have -- a lively discussion. So for your final assay (consideration) and essay (if you w... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1730050173.html?nid=3716 How Can I Use This With My Students? Every kind of book for K-12 readers lives an odd double life. It is a book like any adult book, but it can,... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1440050144.html?nid=3716 Sticks and Stones: The N Word Your comments and Greenblatt's article have helped focus what we want from HF: that "hallucination of presenc... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/960050096.html?nid=3716 Lets Run This Like a Seminar, Not a Blog In other words, I am not here to state, first off, what I think, but to present to you the challenges G... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/540050054.html?nid=3716 A Beautiful Song, But I Think Our Job As Parents Has Changed (I promised to write about historical fiction and I will, but a couple of experienc... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/380050038.html?nid=3716 "The Hallucination of Presence" The same issue of the New York Review of Books with the Tim Garton Ash essay on 1989 included this rev... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/320050032.html?nid=3716 So They Tell Me, But Please Post If You Have Any Problems I'll put up a more normal, non-IT post, soon. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1930049993.html?nid=3716 If you, Like Mary, Could not get an RSS feed of this blog, the fault is ours. Apparently this is another system problem that is also effecting o... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1880049988.html?nid=3716 comments should work again http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1800049980.html?nid=3716 IT just told me that the spam blocker -- the captcha letters and numbers you need to write to post your comment -- is not working I'll let you k... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1690049969.html?nid=3716 The Wall Fell So Recently, What Can History Tell Us That We Don't Already Know? Tim Garton Ash, who not only knows a great deal about European h... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1500049950.html?nid=3716 Sorry For the Late Post I am getting old -- and not being really ready to face that, I played some pick up basketball a few weeks ago and tore m... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/700049870.html?nid=3716 As the NBA Finalist List Shows So do you agree? Has the NF this year been particularly good? Which ones? Why? -- Why both in the sense of what i... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1800049780.html?nid=3716 The Digital Download Library and the Flat Test Scores Today's newspaper defines the challenge for all of us. On the one hand, as the Times repor... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1230049723.html?nid=3716 I'd Love to Know How They Are Used I see from my Google tracker that most of the folks who recently visited my own website came there to look at... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/730049673.html?nid=3716 Where Present and Past Meet We visited an old family friends yesterday and it was a reminder of how much we need those contacts in our hectic tw... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/190049619.html?nid=3716 Where We Fit In the Push to Reform Education Yesterday afternoon I sat in on a webinar in which the Department of Education explained what it wi... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1620049562.html?nid=3716 Books As Captured Time I must admit, I've been caught up in the media swirl -- the leak about Bluestonehenge, then getting to go on TV to explai... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1580049558.html?nid=3716 from kids books to the white house Years ago I edited three books about native groups in Latin America written by Maricel Presilla -- at least o... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1880000388/post/1220049522.html?nid=3716 Friends -- Sorry to take up some much blog-space with my own book, but this is very new and very exciting. 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