Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh May 9, 2015 A Pile of Stories
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey Some of the best writing I read every day comes from the...
The Big Fresh May 2, 2015 Navigating Boston
Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau I recently went to a conference at the JFK Library in Boston with my colleague...
The Big Fresh April 25, 2015 What We Crave
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ...
The Big Fresh April 18, 2015 Messy Inventions
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison My nine-year-old sons love to invent contraptions created from Legos. Rarely do they follow instructions...
The Big Fresh April 11, 2015 Perspective
The present moment represents all moments. John Zeisel It was a day my mother’s dementia was weighing heavily on me. Donna, a caregiver, must have seen it in my...
The Big Fresh April 4, 2015 True Horizontal
Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi There is a beautiful scene in Cutting for Stone,...
The Big Fresh March 28, 2015 The Devotion of Reading Teachers
If you plan to build walls around me, know this — I will walk through them. Richelle Goodrich Reading teachers are a devoted, dogged, stubborn type, aren’t they? Last...
The Big Fresh March 21, 2015 Taking Detours
Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. Paulo Coelho I recently was in the midst of studying the novel Lord of...
The Big Fresh March 14, 2015 Eating an Orange
In this moment, there is plenty of time. Victoria Moran A writer’s life is a necessarily slow one. To write, I need ideas, inspiration, and details, the collection of...
The Big Fresh March 7, 2015 The Power of Play
People tend to forget that play is serious. David Hockney If you visit the Galapagos Islands, one of the first things you notice is that sea lions are everywhere. They...
The Big Fresh February 28, 2015 The Ketchup Incident
Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson Sam asked me, “Mom, did you hear about the ketchup incident?” “No. What’s the ketchup incident?” I asked, pausing as I chopped...
The Big Fresh February 21, 2015 What Comes First
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once. Mignon McLaughlin This winter I started hosting a...
The Big Fresh February 14, 2015 Joy’s Path
When I was 10 years old, I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought...
The Big Fresh February 7, 2015 Rereading the Classics
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. ...
The Big Fresh January 31, 2015 Portmanteaus and Eggcorns
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. Ludwig Wittgenstein I’ve always loved Ralph Fletcher’s advice that vocabulary instruction is all about...
The Big Fresh January 24, 2015 DEARO
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. Steve Maraboli On a cold winter day last month I stood at the front door of a local school,...
The Big Fresh January 17, 2015 The Power of Nonfiction Picture Books
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. E.O. Wilson Student choice is a key component of my fourth-grade reading workshop. I believe that if students have more control in...
The Big Fresh January 10, 2015 What I’ve Read
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty...
The Big Fresh January 3, 2015 Cookies and Coaching
Cookies are made of butter and love. Norwegian Proverb I always knew that the way to a person’s heart was through their stomach, so when I moved to a...
The Big Fresh December 27, 2014 Happiness of Pursuit
When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it. Amelia Earhart I’ve been enjoying the book Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life...
The Big Fresh December 13, 2014 What Makes a Writer?
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. ...
