Happy Birthday, Anna J. Cooper, & Can learning languages help when you are under stress? Yes! Write your Dreams in your favorite Languages!

Anna J. Cooper was a strong advocate for education, especially in Washington, DC, and one of the first Black women to earn a PhD. August 10th is her birthday, and as she fought to make the dreams of Black students possible, we must fight to make all of our collective dreams possible for a safer,…

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Do Better, Writing Process: A Nonfiction Logline??

Originally posted on Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story:
  This part of chapter one made me realize that I had no log line, although those are generally reserved, so I thought, for fiction work:  The end goal of this project is to create a community and a plan that would…

Day 43/67 of GED in Five Months, Area vs. Circumference, and, transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Adulting often requires knowing how transportation ties in with a variety of types of knowledge, like the distance around an obstacle, given the area of the area you want to avoid.  Also, when does it make more sense to use   mass transit than to drive?  Start of week 12/18 Day 43, Lesson Plan: Grammar: […] Day…

Day 42/67: Five Month GED, “Discrete What?” & Health Terminology (and a Note…) — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

(Quick note: Dear Readers, this is nearly the end of my lesson plan series, which I am working to post so that the new Page listing these plans will have fresh links.  Then, we will return to our regularly schedules stories… -Shira)      Adulting often requires understanding vocabulary, and how certain words have slightly […] Day…

ShiraDest’s Ann and Anna, (serial short story, Part 16): Power — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

…  Parts 15 (Knowledge),  14 (Words),  13 (Interruptions),  12 (Gifts),  11 (Punishment),  10 (Warmth),   9 (Found),  8 (Lost),  7 (Rock),  6 (Believe), 5 (Naming), 4 (Home), 3 (Trust), 2 (Hope), and 1 (Nightmares) have posted on previous Sundays… —      Anna looked at us, her mischievous smile mirroring that of little Tilly.  They […] Ann…

Day 41/67, Five Month GED: Cycles, and, “Wh” Questions — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Adulting often requires Public Library resources to answer important questions about issues ranging from the life cycle of an organism, as in today’s science reading, to election cycles.  Or resources like the old “Who’s Who…” books that recorded facts like the number of presidents who have been impeached, and why.       Questions like what, […] Day…

Do Better, 5th Draft: Ready for Reviews

Originally posted on Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story:
We still need more eyes on this new PDF of the current, 5th, Draft of Project Do Better‘s book , if Beta Readers would like to volunteer. (Please leave feedback on this book by commenting here on this post…) Oh, and new…

Still Separate and Unequal, and Adulting for all

Originally posted on Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story:
This book should be read by every Adult, and our country must become more fully inclusive for all of us.   Gillon expains the importance of The Kerner Commission’s Report, which was apparently ignored, and then buried. Following the Report’s recommendations, as…

Ann and Anna, (serial short story, Part 15): Knowledge — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

…  Parts 14 (Words),  13 (Interruptions),  12 (Gifts),  11 (Punishment),  10 (Warmth),   9 (Found),  8 (Lost),  7 (Rock),  6 (Believe), 5 (Naming), 4 (Home), 3 (Trust), 2 (Hope), and 1 (Nightmares) have posted on previous Sundays… —      Not long after beginning our lessons, Mrs. H. had noted a peculiarity about me.  While […] Ann…

Day 40/67, Five Month GED, Cheerful Facts About the Square of the Hypotenuse, and, Standing Like an Adult — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Adulting includes learning which languages work to help you learn best, such as the language of music: musical learning for facts vegetable, mineral, and mathematical, especially quadratical, and maybe even songs for finding out where your law-makers stand.  🙂    How, by the way, would you find out where your Congressmen and State Assembly/State Senate […] Day…