<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ccac317c-2c62-4ba6-b902-bced951932f2/A9033FBE-E886-462F-86F1-6018E7427AFF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm" href="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ncte.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ncte.org/img/0F3E6BFA-66A6-4135-8878-FF8446AD86A3" alt="NCTE - The National Council of Teachers of English - A Professional Association of Educators in English Studies, Literacy and Language Arts" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="3">Emergency Measures for Ugly Classrooms <HR /> </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm">I need help! Please if anyone can help me decorate!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="2">Kathryn Wilson<BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="2">The kids are complaining? Let the kids do the work. Dig through your school office and find some construction paper. Have students put their assignments on construction paper and decorate them. My students just finished a character sketch, and I had them "frame them" and now they're hanging on my walls. Have the students find a quotation they feel represents who they are/what they like to do. Write/type it on paper, decorate it and hang it up.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="2">Can't afford construction paper? Offer students five extra credit points for every package they bring in.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="2">Hang up a long piece of butcher paper with a few markers attached. Have a question each week ("What is your favorite way to spend a rainy day?") for students to write/draw their responses.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/cnp/back/109648.htm"><FONT size="2">Kelly Flanigan<BR /></FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9033FBE-E886-462F-86F1-6018E7427AFF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!