Grace period for ad buyer?

Grace period for ad buyer? DA considers waiting for advocacy papers involving referendumBy AMY HETZNER
ahetzner@journalsentinel.comPosted: March 14, 2008

Brookfield - Waukesha County's district attorney said he might give the purchaser of an advertisement urging "Vote Yes" on the Elmbrook School District's upcoming building referendum until March 24 to register advocacy papers and file financial reports.

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Train Messenger

The Virtual Museum of Canada has a neat activity called The Train Messenger.  It would be accessible to English Language Learners of all levels.

In it, you can design a train and the scenery, write a message about it, and then email the url so it can be posted on a blog or online journal.  While you’re making your train, you can also read (in simple English) information about the types of rail cars and locomotives you’re deciding to use.

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Flat Judaism?

Many of my students feel a strong connection to Israel and have visited Israel at least once.  Some of my students are Israeli.  When an opportunity for my students to work with students in Israel on a “flat classroom” type of project, I jumped at the chance.  I am pleased to introduce you to our project, which I am calling “Faces of Judaism.”  Together with the Neveh Channah Torah High School for Girls, my students at the Weber School are exploring their Jewish identity through writing.  Some questions guiding our exploration:

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Vote: The Books America Can?t Live Without

This isn’t as scientific as I’d like, but given the amount of comments I received and the pool of books selected in those comments, coupled with informal polls offline, I have cobbled together a list of twenty books America can’t live without, in no particular order. Here’s where you come in. Let’s put them order. Vote for your top five in the comments. I will tally the votes and rank the books from 1-20.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter series by J.K. RowlingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Collected Works of William Shakespeare by William ShakespeareThe BibleThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutStranger in a Strange Land by Robert HeinleinDracula by Bram StokerThe Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’ConnorThe Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Nevada?s First Meaningful Caucus

Nevada Caucus participants “standing-up” for their candidates.

My wife and I helped make history today by participating in the first Nevada Caucus for president. I teach elementary school, but my BA is in political science, and I found the process and experience interesting and rewarding.

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