The Idea Men are Plotting…

My original topic started out as books that were being censored in schools.  That topic was a pretty interesting one for the first round of blog responses.  From those articles I learned that literature, like sex, religion, war, and other topic can be a touchy one (even a school newspaper, which my other blog responses [...]

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Teacher loses job for helping student newspaper
By Eric Stevick, Herald writer
For this blog response, I think I am tapping into some interesting boundaries.  I received a blog response through RSS to this article.  Upon reading it, there are tons of responses to Monica Guzman’s entry.  But before I look at some of those, let’s take [...]

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Journalism coming to more schoolsA $500,000 grant will enable 24 city high schools to run media clubs, aided by professionals and interns.
By Martha Woodall
Oh blessed grants, thank you for helping run media clubs.  Let’s see the quote from the horse’s mouth:
“Officials from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today are scheduled to [...]

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I have responded to the following people’s blogs:
Tyler
Another one of Tyler’s
Eli
Nathan
Michael
Johnathon
Christina
Shakura
I have responded every time to a blog but I can’t find them all so if anyone happens to look and see mine on there let me know.

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“Students learn to craft articles for newspaper”
11/14/07
Agnes Hagin
Continuing on with my theme of student newspapers, censorship, and promotion of student writing, I found this article titled “Students learn to craft articles for newspaper” by Agnes Hagin.  She has wrote an article about Rockmart Middle School in Rockmart, GA which has a newspaper.  Yah, big whoop huh…well, [...]

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Student newspaper shut down at E. Coweta
Published 10/12/07 in The Times-Herald
By W. WINSTON SKINNER
winston@newnan.com
Winston Skinner starts this article out with a compelling thesis:
“Smoke Signals, the award-winning East Coweta High School student newspaper, is on ice — the remaining copies of the last edition impounded in the principal’s office.”Without reading any more of [...]

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Student Newspaper Shows Diversity, Concerns of
Los Angeles Adolescents

By Mike O’Sullivan

Los Angeles
08 October 2007

This article caught my eye immediately due to this phrase “…free from censorship by school officials”.  When I read the first couple lines: “A student newspaper in Los Angeles called L.A. Youth is giving a voice to teenagers, free from censorship by school officials. [...]

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Dr. James Shapiro is a man who definitely knows and loves his Shakespeare.  When I was listening to him talk about excerpts from his book and the pre-play Q and A, I could tell he was a very passionate man.  He boasted a lot of his vast knowledge of Shakespeare.  He has the right to [...]

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Metro Briefing |
New York

Manhattan:
Reading by J. K. RowlingBy Jennifer MedinaPublished: September 6, 2007 
This article isn’t that big but I need to have it in to help with my other article that will connect.  On October 19, J. K. Rowling will be at Carnegie Hall to read from the new book named “Harry Potter and the [...]

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Schools expose students to variety of books
By: Brandy Rissmiller
Republic Herald
Students at Minersville Area Schools in
Minersville, Pennsylvania have a pretty sweet system going when it comes to exposing students to literature.  Grades K through 12 are given ample resources when it comes to fall school in the library and the classroom.  For example, Kelly Crowe, a [...]

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