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Theatre in 1962 (Blogathon ’09 #7)

In 1962, both the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia: The original Broadway production credited the choreography to an obscure dance director named Hugh Lambert, while the much better-known Bob Fosse received only a “musical staging [...]

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A-Z Challenge

I got this idea from Sassymonkey, so I thought I’d give it a try! I made this be #74 on my 101 in 1001. The idea is to make a list of books whose titles begin with A-Z, then read them (I included numbers too, just for fun). There may be some overlap between these [...]

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Children’s Literacy Initiative (Day of Blogs ’08 #42)

Won’t someone please donate to Children’s Literacy Initiative? Straight from their website, here is how CLI’s Professional Development Program works: • Developing Engaging Read Alouds Because being read to adds directly to children’s knowledge and vocabulary, experts stress the importance of reading aloud to students. At the writing center, a first-grader has word books, a [...]

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