"You will be paid $66.67 to attend this class today!"*
Kelly Gallagher
Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
*Actually, if you continue on to college or trade school, you'll make even more...

The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society by Sandy Baum, Jennifer Ma, Kathleen Paye

http://www.accessandequity.org/research.php

 

“Education Pays”

http://www.accessandequity.org/documents/The%20Benefits%20of%20Higher%20Education%20for%20Individuals%20and%20Society%20by%20Sandy%20Baum.pdf

“The difference between 'betting' on the future, and investing in it? 

Education.”  - Shawn Rutherford

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/news_team/Shawn_Rutherford

Story Corps - Shoeshiner Gets Foot in the Door to College

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140705810/soul-singer-helps-shoeshiner-get-on-the-good-foot

4-1-1 of Academic Planning

http://www.accessandequity.org/blog/archives/225
http://www.accessandequity.org/research.php
http://www.volrock.org/HOC__Volunteer_Opportunity_Search_Page?p=vct

 

Empowering Our Youth
Sat, October 1, 2011, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Avery Building

A panel of experts will help you get ready for college. No charge and no registration required.

http://www.rrhec.txstate.edu/

“Whaddya learn?” ~Brian Nash – Happy Birthday!

 Let's celebrate with some "Hook 'Em" chocolate!

Reality Check

http://www.cdr.state.tx.us/realitycheck/

Texas Workforce Commission

http://www.twc.state.tx.us/

President Barack Obama will deliver his third annual Back to School speech today. For the last two years, President Obama has taken time at the start of the school year to encourage students to study hard, work hard, and stay focused in order to achieve their dreams and goals.

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/09/28/news/politics/doc4e82c79a5e52c917566176.txt?viewmode=fullstory

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
http://www.educationnation.com/

 

“Maybe while he was in jail, Tupac started thinking about his Big Purpose.  That’s what D called it – our Big Purpose.  She said everybody’s got one and it’s just that we gotta figure out what it is and then go have it.”  (7)  “Maybe that was our Big Purpose --- to figure ourselves on out.” (134)

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/ya.shtml

Mauel De La Santos "... feel like Superman...forget my problem …"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-nt0eTb2w&feature=BFa&list=FLIJJPuzqI9SUipM4ptkOGWA&lf=mh_lolz

 “Movie that changed that my life… Legend of Bagger Vance...”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146984/

“People of all ages use our tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build their own portfolio.”

http://www.careercruising.com/

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin F. Fairless

"Operation Game Plan: What's Your Game, What's Your Plan?" Contest:

FIRST CATEGORY:

 If you have ANY rappers who want to test their skills and ROCK the mike, allow them do an Education is Important Rap

SECOND CATEGORY

Art Contest-A mural depicting post secondary careers and choices.

THIRDY CATEGORY:

AN ESSAY ENTITLED: MY GAME PLAN FOR MY LIFE...
FOURTH CATEGORY: BEST POWER POINT OR MEDIA PRESENTATION ON "MY GAME PLAN FOR MY LIFE"...

FIFTH CATEGORY: EDUCATION: WHY WE NEED IT COMMERCIALS....

LinkedIn Today: SPECIAL EDITION • Sept 26
Putting America Back to Work

http://www.linkedin.com/today/specials/jobs-growth-rebuilding-economy?trk=eml-mktg_oneoff-b-2-Obama

Jane Lynch – A Life of Happy Accidents

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/09/16/140502205/jane-lynch-a-life-of-happy-accidents

“A Change Will Do You Good”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwLPMOzHLY

 

A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You

By Ralph Fletcher

http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Notebook-Unlocking-Writer-Within/dp/0380784300

 

In the “Writing That Scrapes the Heart” chapter, “Some of my most important writing comes in the letters I write.” (103)

 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/

Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken.  ~Oscar Wilde 

"They were psyched," Vig says. "As I started talking to them, they told me they were ready. They had been rehearsing every day for three months. There was definitely not a slacker ethic in that band. I mean, they wanted to make a great record. And Kurt [Cobain] was very ambitious, you know. When they walked into the studio, they were ready to go."

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/22/140675226/nevermind-at-20-producer-butch-vig-on-nirvana

When discussing "literature of alienation" to introduce Langston Hughes' "I, Too,"
an astute student defined alienation as being "surrounded by nothingness."

 "I, Too, Sing America"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15615

YESEES AND NOEES

The Yesees said yes to anything
That anyone suggested.
The Noees said no to everything
Unless it was proven and tested.
So the Yesees all died of much too much
And the Noees all died of fright,
But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees
All came out all right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/nasty-school-and-other-poems-by-shel-silverstein.html?scp=2&sq=shel%20silverstein&st=cse

Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing'

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140566486/shel-silversteins-poems-live-on-in-every-thing

AND Fab website:
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html

...on location shooting Bernie (photo on About the Teacher)

About the movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/

About the benefit for Bastrop:
http://austin.ynn.com/content/top_stories/280516/-bernie--screening-benefits-bastrop-fire-relief

"The dark comedy is based on 'Midnight in the Garden of East Texas,' a Texas Monthly article written by Skip Hollandsworth, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater. The film will recount the bizarre mystery involving Bernhardt “Bernie” Tiede, an assistant funeral home director in Carthage, Texas."  
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austinmovies/entries/2010/09/30/mcconaughey_joins_jack_black_o.html
And:
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austinmovies/entries/2011/09/13/benefit_screening_of_linklater.html?cxntfid=blogs_austin_movie_blog

About the story/script:
See "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas"  in Handouts