My students are working right now on some short story projects, and I have to say that I am entertained. We are reading a few Edgar Allen Poe stories, which I love equally because they are delightfully grotesque and they illicit great responses from some of my students. I am starting to get a few videos from my classes of "their" versions of the ( Read more... )

I HATE the time change!

Well, I am slowly trying to make my way back to the journaling world. I don't know how well it will go, but all I can do is see ( Read more... )

Ok, I have a favor to ask everyone. My step cousin entered the Duct Tape Prom dress scholarship and needs votes! Just follow the directions below and please go vote for her. She spent well over 75 hours making this dress and then made her dates outfit as well ( Read more... )

I have been so bad about this thing lately. Well, a quick update: I got a job in San Antonio! I will be teaching at O'Connor high school with the Northside District. I couldn't be happier with this position, but it is going to be making my move very difficult. I will be in San Antonio from the 10-28 of July for training, and I am moving from ( Read more... )

I am still alive, beleive it or not. I have been horrible about this thing lately. Life has been a whirlwind lately. There are a lot of things going through my head, and going on in my life, and I plan to give you the most scattered train-of-thought post I can ( Read more... )

It has been forever, and I am sure that more than one person has given up on this thing ever being updated ( Read more... )

It has been forever, I know, but htings have been a bit crazy around here. so here is an update of what is going on, and what has happened ( Read more... )

So one of my fellow teachers was asked today to "give" a student 2 points on their semester grade from last semester so that the student can go on to play football at UT. I was conpletely dumbfounded at this request. The student, a lazy, cocky student who doesn't try in class, made a whopping 11 on his ACT test this year ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with an overwhelming urge to throw myself out of a moving plane. No, not suicide, skydiving. I have been wanting to do it for a while, but before now I never had $200 that I could blow on this type of experience. I have also had trouble finding people who were actually serious about going with me ( Read more... )