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Contact

If anyone wants to get in contact with me, here is my contact information.

Chris Byron
15955 South Canaan Rd
Athens, OH 45701
cbyron@thecareercenter.net
740-438-3614

annotated bibliographies

Your Annotated Bibliographies are now available on the OU AWP website under resources for research.


I will miss you all. I hope the rest of your summer is restful.

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Babble On.

Loved today.

What a day! Mary Ann's lesson set the perfect tone for the afternoon's powerful narrative readings, didn't it? Wow. Walking down the hill to my car, I got all teary thinking about the impact of everyone's personal narratives...until my backpack unzipped itself and all its contents cascaded to the sidewalk for all to see, then I felt like an extremely self-conscious middle schooler, frantically scooping it all up, looking around to see who was watching (Hi, Lena! The new laptop survived!) inspecting my Land's End panda backpack zipper for breakage. If that had happened when I was 13 in front a cute boy or perhaps the popular girls I would have run straight home and written to my diary about how humiliating the whole event was! (I guess I'm doing that now, aren't I?) Some things never change.

Off to work on the annotated bib, which is not nearly as entertaining as rereading another diary from 1977 that I JUST found an hour ago while cleaning out my messy briefcase. I promise I won't subject you to any more after this, but just for fun, here's an entry on my first teaching gig ever:

January 11, 1977 (age 10)
Dear Diary,
Guess what? I am an official piano teacher! Yes, that's right, I gave Marsha Williams her very first piano lesson at 4:00 this afternoon. Aren't you proud of me? Well, I hope so. After the lesson, Mommy and I planted some dwarf trees.
Love, Cathy

Mimi Hughes

Mary Ann- Great demo! And wonderful ideas! You are an awesome teacher and make it look so easy.

Also, great stories today everyone. Wow. I felt like we all needed a hug at the end of the day today. Intense and amazing stories. They left me kind of speechless. Whew...

Love you guys.

Mary Ann's Poetry Demo

I believe that Mary Ann has a great love and devotion to her students and their overall well-being, and she strives to help them to build self-esteem through positive awareness.  Mary Ann has shown us how we can reinforce caring for one another in her demo, and she did it in a fun and non-threatening way by creating a scenario by using  the post-its that the students could build upon.  I loved her use of the "I Am Poem" because even though poetry is not my forte, this lesson does help to introduce the concepts of poetry in a class. This could be a fun way to begin a unit on poetry, and this could be the framework for maybe using the same poem to create multiple styles of poetry; for instance, take the idea from free verse, to ballads, to even sonnets (but form would have to be seriously revised to fit into a 14 line sonnet, but the concept could still shine through)!  I loved the lesson, and though I really am not into country music at all, that song was interesting and relevant to the lesson.  Job well done!