Choice Lit Topic: Big Fresh Archives
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The Big Fresh November 3, 2012 Giving Too Much
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too...
The Big Fresh October 27, 2012 Consider It Done
Choice Literacy hosted workshops recently at a resort where the motto is “Consider It Done.” This was the tagline heard whenever a staff member introduced herself, as in “Hello, I’m...
The Big Fresh October 20, 2012 Not Proficient
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. ...
The Big Fresh October 13, 2012 More More More
Never play cat and mouse games if you’re a mouse. Don Addis Thea was quiet and serious, with brown eyes and flyaway auburn hair, and a nervous habit of constantly...
The Big Fresh October 6, 2012 Future Literacy
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation. Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you’re going to add...
The Big Fresh September 29, 2012 Shining a Light
I believe that this corporate machinery of scripted programs, comprehension worksheets, computer-based incentive packages, and test practice curriculum facilitates a solid bottom-line for the companies that sell them, and give...
The Big Fresh September 22, 2012 Going Through the Motions
All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. William Shakespeare A teacher once said to me, “A...
The Big Fresh September 15, 2012 Delegation Gone Bad
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. ...
The Big Fresh September 8, 2012 Something Better
They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side. John Mayer I must admit I didn’t have high expectations for sushi at the airport....
