The 19th Century Twitter

The Fox sisters had a clever little hoax, but it certainly would never have become a nationwide movement and a religion without the endorsem...

Dianne Gets Social

Okay, the photo to the right is a picture of my ARCs of We Hear the Dead . Aren’t they pretty? They don’t have a whole lot to do with this ...

Process Writing Mirrors Publication

Anyone who is a teacher will be familiar with Process Writing as taught in the classroom. It consists of steps labeled Pre-Writing, Drafting...

Dr. Kane's Volcano

It’s probably time I explain the volcano picture at the top of this blog site. People who are familiar with the historical characters in We ...

Define Reading ... Part 2

Reading in today’s society tends to be a social activity. People share books, recommend them, discuss them, blog about them, and list them ...

The Little Ice Age

No, I’m not talking about the Blizzards of 2010! I realize that I was supposed to post the second half of my reading/testing essay today, bu...

Define Reading (and Support Your Answer with 3 Examples from the Text)

I asked my students: “What did Natasha say about men walking on the moon?” Chad had an answer. “She said it never happened. She told Tough...

The Haunting of Hydesville

The history of spiritualism in America began in 1848 with a house in Hydesville, New York that was supposedly haunted by the spirit of a mur...