The Terror of Concentric Circles!
Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
A great Onion news story. There’s enough vocabulary in it for a whole lesson and throw in a solid sample of parody as well.
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Not Very Punny . . .
. . . but I couldn’t resist. Not timeless certainly, nor broadly applicable but I’d have some fun with this in an English classroom. It’s along the same lines as the remixed “Read” posters Dan started and I did a few of a while back. Lil Wayne and one of his lines from A MilliA good song but probably not playable in most classrooms and if you can get away with it I’d play the version with Jay Z instead.. Not sure if I need to be this obvious but it’d depend on the class. If, for some reason, you want the big version of either just click on the image.
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May be time to change themes. I’m tired of cut/paste embeds not working. What do you think Jim?
Sound’s good to me. I’ve become partial to three column themes with the sidebars on the same side. Let’s look around a test a few out…