Please note before reading that this short treatise does not discuss the gerrymandering purposes of the War on “Drugs” which enabled the government, predominantly the Republican party, steal representation from poor urban communities (predominantly people of color) and give it to rural white communities. That’s another paper. The “War on Drugs” has all along been… Read More
Another Hurricane Evac Adventure Story: Hurricane Helene, 2024
Helene is thus far believed to have claimed 220 lives and this number may continue to grow as communities take stock and this is only the human body count. Read More
NADA/UCLA Film Project #2
This film is a larger work compiled of 12 smaller works: Ethnographic stories from Master practitioners, Clinicians, mental health professionals, etc. Read More
Finally Finished It!
Stories are filled with conflicts, confrontations, challenges, struggles, successes,
failures, resolutions, revelations, changes, transitions, evolutions, highs and lows, etc.
These can be both internal, external, and more interestingly, a mix of both. Read More
The Research Paper Course
When you research a topic, you make yourself an expert on that topic and all the directly linked topics and subtopics. You learn about what influences and impacts it and about what it influences and impacts. Then you report and share your findings. Read More
Great Writing Made Easy: A Middle School Writing Workshop on Words & Word Choice
Choose words packed with detail that add to the image and move the story forward. Not all words add to the image, and more words slow the story down. Fewer words
speed it up. Read More
College Prep Research Paper Mastery Course!
The difference between a research paper and a position paper is that in a research paper, you do
not take a position, you summarize, draw logical conclusions, consider consider any holes in the research in need of further study, and suggest next steps. Read More
Designing the AP College Readiness Creative Writing Curriculum
This page is under construction The first few lessons of this course are similar to the first few lessons in the academic writing course. This cannot be helped since in all writing regardless of type, there are certain basic rules that must be understood from the beginning. However, there are subtle differences in how those… Read More
The Contrast-Comparison Paper
To categorize your facts is to put each fact into a group of similar facts and name the group for the kinds of facts it has in it, e.g., all the facts about origins in a group (folder) labeled Origins or evolution and taxonomy facts in a group (folder) labeled Evolution & Taxonomy, all those about physical characteristics in a group (folder) labeled Physical Characteristics, those on
behaviors in a group (folder) labeled Behaviors, etc. Read More
Designing the AP College Readiness Academic Writing Curriculum
The questions are, What
do you believe? What do you think? What does the research say? What
does the history say? What does the literature say? What do you want to
say? What do you want the readers to hear, see, believe, feel, understand
about the main topic, the subtopics, the research, your beliefs, thoughts,
ideas? Read More
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