MSM 289:  Upcoming Vacation, Back to the Future - Grammar, and Election (Signs)

Jokes You Can Use:

Eileen Award:

Twitter: Dan Balestrero

Advisory:

Halloween Candy

http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/candyx600_103014.png

Idioms

http://www.hotelclub.com/blog/idioms-of-the-world-infographic/

Back to The Future Grammar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXIZoaD8NBg#t=119

10 Greatest Changes of the past 1,000 years

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/30/10-greatest-changes-of-the-past-1000-years

Octothorpe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEVOM0VycMI

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

From the Twitterverse:

Strategies:

Counter Factuals

Given the perilous political circumstances in some regions of our world today, understanding what could have been, may in fact help us better understand what might be.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119357/altered-pasts-reviewed-cass-r-sunstein

Resources:

6th - 8th Grade Paired Text Question Sets

http://www.readworks.org/rw/6th-8th-grade-paired-text-question-sets

Yummy Math

http://opencurriculum.org/user/yummymath/

NASA Library of Space Sounds

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/10/nasa-posts-huge-library-space-sounds-youre-free-use/

https://soundcloud.com/nasa

Socrative Quiz List

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/access-more-than-1000-socrative-quizzes.html#.VFTVdlPF94U

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dtoP6ivVNJtqTw0d6OSKLEq5WlZZ7ak9onjU1kph0Co/edit#gid=20451944

Election Day Resource

www.electoral-vote.com

Teacher - Student Assessment

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/10/26/here-are-forms-my-students-are-using-to-evaluate-themselves-me/

Web Spotlight:

Gifted and Talented…and Afraid

http://eduguideblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/gifted-talented-and-afraid/

50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar

We're starting this celebration of teaching with Socrates, the superstar teacher of the ancient world. He was sentenced to death more than 2,400 years ago for "impiety" and "corrupting" the minds of the youth of Athens.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/10/29/359325963/50-great-teachers-socrates-the-ancient-worlds-teaching-superstar

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