bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 30, 2009, 4:06 pm
I twitter my news.  I got the idea from a Christian Science Monitor journalist presenting about how to make the Middle East come alive for high school students.  This is beyond cool.  There are new...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 25, 2009, 7:29 pm
I’m back home in Jackson Hole for Thanksgiving.  I took a commuter plane from SLC to Jackson.  A woman from Charleston, South Carolina sat next to me.  Very talkative.  Woke up at 3:00am Bo...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 25, 2009, 7:19 pm
Highlights Seeing people, meeting new people.  Perfect weather. Seafood every day. Rental car with friends up the coast. Learning more about the Middle East. Looking through the books at the confer...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 19, 2009, 1:05 am
I took my original post about dating down because I didn’t feel like it needed to be said on my blog.  I’m pretty happy and ultimately I don’t care when or if it happens.  I just c...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 15, 2009, 5:07 pm
I took 5 students and a chaperone to Silent Weekend 2009, cowboy themed.  Stayed at the University of Utah overnight.  Friday night we played card games together till late.  There is a strict, no s...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 9, 2009, 10:49 pm
I can’t believe I can actually say I’ve been to Boston.  After all the times I had it on my list of places to go.  It was part site seeing and two different conferences.  Learned a lot....
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 5, 2009, 9:34 pm
I was asked to present at today’s Utah Foreign Language Association conference about innovation in Arabic teaching.  I really need a lesson on how to get videos to play from Power Point without...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Nov 2, 2009, 9:25 pm
Just finished Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time written by co-authors Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.  Read it in preparation for the forum...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 27, 2009, 7:01 pm
Greg Mortenson completely won me over today in his forum address to students at Brigham Young University.  I was actually struggling to get through the book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Missio...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 23, 2009, 11:36 pm
On the KSL 10:00pm news with anchor Deanie Wimmer as a language teacher in Provo High School’s International Baccalaureate program.  We are standing on the field in front of the student body du...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 21, 2009, 6:19 pm
Someone just asked me what it was like to switch from speaking Mandarin to Arabic in a short space of time.  It got me thinking. A story: When I lived in England, my best friend was Chinese, Song Ra...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 16, 2009, 1:15 am
I am very turned off by extremists in any direction.  I came to value moderate views living among Israelis and Palestinians.  I saw the futility of bunkering into a position that ultimately leads no...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 14, 2009, 4:17 pm
Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Sameh Shoukry spoke at BYU today about Egyptian views of Peace and Politics in the Middle East.  My co-teacher, Mohamed El Naggar and I met him and his wife (...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 12, 2009, 9:31 pm
I just returned from a weekend training from International Baccalaureate (IB).  Provo High School is an International Baccalaureate World School.  Some of my Arabic classes are IB hence I am learnin...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 10, 2009, 2:00 am
What I meant to say was, “Deaf people have periods in ASL,”  but the last part didn’t quite come out before the class burst out laughing.  For some odd reason, lately, we’ve ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 5, 2009, 3:00 am
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is an autobiographical look at Obama’s life written while he was in his 30’s.  It’s a book of discovering himself and the infl...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Oct 1, 2009, 11:11 pm
Abeer Harazneh, an administrator from Jordan, is staying with me tonight beginning her 10 day visit to Provo High School and Brigham Young University.  She will later be staying with administrators f...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 29, 2009, 6:32 pm
When you’re in Provo but you’re speaking eGyptian half your day, signing up for a year-long seminar on Egypt, co-teaching with an Egyptian, hanging out with Egyptians once in a while on yo...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 24, 2009, 5:26 pm
Ok.  So there’s this assignment where students try to experience a little about what it’s like to be deaf and then report about it in sign language.  Today one of the boys in the class g...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 18, 2009, 11:31 pm
So I’m down on the field during the Homecoming football game for some public relations things I’m doing with our exchange teacher from Egypt.  It’s fun because so many of my student...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 15, 2009, 6:16 pm
Mr. Mohamed El Naggar introduced himself today during faculty meeting.  With gracious words for the administration and faculty, he introduced his purpose here in the United States and specifically at...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 13, 2009, 5:48 pm
With great joy I can finally announce that I finished, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.  I read these 754 pages of dense history consumed by the story.  A few minutes ago as ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 10, 2009, 2:00 am
On September 8th, Obama gave a speech to the nation’s school children.  Our principal gave us the option to take our students.  In the conservative climate of this community, he also asked us ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 7, 2009, 11:23 pm
Mohamed El Naggar is out exchange teacher from Egypt this year.  He has been a great asset. Posted in A Comment
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 7, 2009, 11:20 pm
Steven Berbeco, the author of Marhaba, a new curriculum for teaching Arabic to high school students flew in from Boston to do a sample lesson for my students here in Provo.  After he left I asked the...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Sep 1, 2009, 7:41 am
Self Talk as part of language study I have been priveledged to meet and interact with some great minds.  I am guessing that Arabic is a draw for those minds.  It is a language deep and wide enough ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Aug 26, 2009, 4:58 pm
I’m excited this year to have students coming from other schools to attend my classes.  My principal was asked to put my top ASL classes and my Arabic class after lunch so students from other s...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Aug 21, 2009, 9:28 pm
I have a great team teacher here from Egypt to work with.  He is fantastic and my Arabic is improving every day.  But, first, a story. We went over the class policies and homework today.  I asked ...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Aug 16, 2009, 9:21 pm
It’s been a while since I’ve had my name printed on a card locating my dinner plate.  I was to sit next to our new faculty member on an exchange from Egypt.  We, Provo High’s assis...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on Aud’acious - Aug 12, 2009, 7:30 am
Naguib Mahfouz wrote stories about Cairo which won him in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Literature.  I was in a bus driving through the streets of Cairo late the other night thinking about him.  What mak...
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bookncurls B. posted an article on MidEast Snapshots - Jul 6, 2009, 10:47 pm

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