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FROM THE PAST

Many customers request past copies of CLASS ACT, and we’re happy to make these available.

CLASS ACT 2001-2002 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “History’s Mysteries Solved: Looking at Etymology” (deciphering etymological information)

ü       “Thought for Food: How to Write a Restaurant Review” (ways to hone nonfiction writing skills)

ü       “Beyond the Refrigerator Door” (publication outlets for student writing)

ü       “Langston Hughes and National Poetry Month” (the famous poet and the day celebrating him)

ü       “Introductory Paragraphs Made Easy!” (the “Inverted Pyramid Method” of writing)

ü       “Celebrating Cinco de Mayo” (looking at everyday English words of Spanish origin)

CLASS ACT 1999-2000 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “Black Poetry Day” (information about and suggestions for celebrating this day)

ü       “Don’t Touch That Remote Control” (nonfiction writing in the form of ads)

ü       “Secret Santa Writing Exchange” (a project using creativity and writing skills—but not money)

ü       “Time in a Bottle” (combining anachronisms and a writing activity centering around time capsules)

ü       “Words of Love” (combining love, romance— and literary terms!)

ü       “Food for Thought” (examining how food terms permeate the English language)

ü       “Baseball Quotables” (similes and metaphors from baseball)

ü       “Write Away” (addresses and web sites of museums dedicated to American authors)

CLASS ACT 1998-1999 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “Get the Ball Rolling” (helping students get to know each other)

ü       “Writing Anger” (understanding your students and their writing skills)

ü       “When the Bough Broke” (students learn about themselves through autobiography)

ü       “How to Write a Movie Review” (helping students do more than just watch movies)

ü       “Quiet Time” (looking at the oddities of English through a puzzle)

ü       “Whateverhappenedto?” (writing about favorite characters—after the book ends)

ü       “Shaking with Fear” (expanding vocabulary through a look at various phobias)

ü       “How to Write an Anglo-Saxon Riddle” (students get involved in an ancient writing form)

CLASS ACT 1997-1998 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these

ü       “Rediscovering Scheherazade” (getting students comfortable with various story ideas)

ü       “A Rose by Any Other Name” (researching famous authors and their works)

ü       “What’s in a Name?” (looking at the symbolic use of names)

ü       “Do You Want to Write Humorous Poetry?” (finding a novel approach to creating poetry)

ü       “Okay by Me” (combining parts of speech and the etymology of okay)

ü       “Looking at Life After School” (honing students’ interviewing and speech skills)

ü       “Silent Letters, Ghost Letters” (examining Old English and its current effect on speech)

ü       “How Sure Are You?” (examining students’ certainty about what they think they know)

CLASS ACT 1996-1997 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “The Palm Beach Rope Puzzle” (having fun with a “whodunit” for teens)

ü       “Looking into War of the Worlds” (combining reference skills with a history lesson)

ü       “Story Starters” (students get a needed push with their writing)

ü       “Get Published” (hints and outlets for the final step in the writing process)

ü       “Tom Swifties” (fun with entertaining adverbs)

ü       “Parts of Speech Inquiry” (clever ways to teach grammar)

ü       “Limericks” (guiding students in creating humorous limericks)

ü       “Sci-Fi—Can It Be So Bad?” (encouraging student writing in the science fiction genre)

CLASS ACT 1995-1996 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “Soul Music” (acquainting students with famous poetry)

ü       “Question Those Adverbs” (help with those pesky parts of speech)

ü       “Stretch Your Feelings” (breaking away from using trite words)

ü       “Turn a Folk Tale into a Joke Tale” (exploring idioms and folk tales)

ü       “A Paddle Here, A Paddle There” (looking at a number of African proverbs)

ü       “TV Talk Panel” (getting students involved in discussions)

ü       “It’s All in the Details” (engaging students in an interdisciplinary art / English project)

CLASS ACT 1994-1995 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “How to Write a Mystery” (writing for a specific genre)

ü       “Don’t Begin at the Beginning” (how to hook an audience)

ü       “Making a Beeline for Literary Terms” (examining literary terms that begin with B)

ü       “Take a Chair” (building a writing assignment around—of all things—chairs)

ü       “Of Hair Shampoo and Audience…” (learning the importance of determining audience)

ü       “Poetry Plan” (determining ways to popularize writing poetry)

ü       “Drop Two Puzzle” (a mixture of spelling, vocabulary, anagrams—and Aristotle!)

CLASS ACT 1993-1994 ($25.00)  Among the many titles are these:

ü       “Getting To Know You” (identifying students’ aptitude in various areas of language arts)

ü       “Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song” (a parts-of-speech/Valentine’s Day puzzle)

ü       “Who? Whom? He? Him?” (a new twist for learning who and whom)

ü       “Putting Acts of Kindness to Work” (a writing assignment concerning acts of kindness)

ü       “A Group Gothic” (collaborating to create a Gothic tale)

ü       “Back to the Emerald Isle” (an interdisciplinary/parts-of-speech activity centering around Ireland)

ü       “An A in Literary Terms” (familiarizing students with various literary devices)