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		<title>Grammar Videos</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/06/grammar-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninth grade students in Robin Neal&#8217;s English class used video as a way to learn and teach others about grammar.
Working in groups, students were assigned a grammar topic such as mastering the colon, comma rules, and avoiding fragment and run-on sentences. Students worked to become experts on their topics and produce short videos explaining their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Modern Slavery Project</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/05/the-modern-slavery-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 17:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started with a student’s question in a 10th grade English class.
The class was reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, and Asa Welch ’12 asked teacher Robin Neal, “Aren’t we going to do something?”
A different teacher might have given a cursory answer about how slavery is an age-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Writing Class Gets Screenwriting Tips from Glee’s Brad Falchuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The students in Debi Ellman’s creative writing elective got some expert advice on screenwriting from Brad Falchuk ’89, an executive producer and co-creator of Glee, one of this year’s most successful new TV shows.
To help them understand how a story makes the leap from the page to the screen, Brad sent the class the script [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Soundtrack for Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trend in Hollywood has been to take classic movies, plays, or comic books and modernize them to appeal to a new generation. That trend has made its way to an eighth grade English class at Beaver.
After reading Shakespeare&#8217;s Romeo and Juliet, students in Kathleen Kosberg&#8217;s class were asked to think about a movie version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Dig Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/01/the-biggest-dig-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sixth edition of the sixth grade Biggest Dig project is underway. This is the signature event of the sixth grade year at Beaver (and, oh yeah, it takes six weeks to complete).
Students have been assigned a year from as far back as 17,000 years ago up to 2009. Each year comes with a major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seniors Thank Robert Pinsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, November 19, Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the U.S. from 1997-2000, visited Robin Neal&#8217;s senior elective on local living writers. The discussion ranged from his writing process, to his thoughts on the being the &#8220;official&#8221; U.S. poet, to students&#8217; college choices. For a complete recap of his visit, see the news story on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Post Leads to Bestselling Author Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/11/facebook-post-leads-to-bestselling-author-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/11/facebook-post-leads-to-bestselling-author-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of social networking and web 2.0 was on display in English teacher Sarah Akhtar&#8217;s senior elective on memoir. Students were reading Mary Karr&#8217;s 1995 memoir The Liars&#8217; Club and were so moved that they wondered if there was any way to get The New York Times bestselling author visit their class to talk about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Lyrics, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/music-and-lyrics-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/music-and-lyrics-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Student&#8217;s in Robin Neal&#8217;s Local Living Writers class have completed the lyrics to one of two melodies provided by singer-songwriter Alastair Mook. Mook visited the class in early October to share his writing process and inspiration. (See the original mashUp post.)
Here is Mr. Neal&#8217;s assignment:
Alastair urged us to play with the sound of language and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Lyrics</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/music-and-lyrics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer-songwriter Alastair Moock visited Beaver on October 1 as part of English Teacher Robin Neal&#8217;s &#8220;Local Living Writers&#8221; class. The 12th grade elective focuses on Boston&#8217;s writing scene &#8212; from novels, to poetry, to music. Moock discussed his creative process and performed one of his original songs.
As a follow-up activity, Moock gave the class two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In and Out</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/09/in-and-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicole Lipson uses blogs in her &#8220;Shakespeare, Tragedy Tomorrow&#8230;Comedy Tonight!&#8221; 12th grade English class to facilitate class reflection and conversation. In this example she prompts students to respond to her post via commenting. Click here to see the original post and all of the comments.

Ms. Lipson&#8217;s post:
Hi all-
In a few days, we will be beginning [...]]]></description>
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