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In my world history classes we're talking about Medieval Europe right now. Today was all about kings, knights, serfs, and all that fun stuff. So as the kiddies in 5th period were starting on their writing assignment, one of them asked me the craziest, funniest question EVER!! Here's the dialog ( Read more... )

Your result for The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz...
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85% Artiste!


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We had Homecoming last week at school -- even though it's ridiculously early for Homecoming, since it was only the fourth week of school and the second home football game. But at least it's over early ( Read more... )

In my email from school I found a link to an article about how reading online differs from reading a book or something like that. One of the biggest points in it is about how our attention span is shorter when reading online. I know I fall into that. If I find something online that is just a huge block of text I tend to just skim it if I read ( Read more... )

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Just wanted to let everyone know I got home from Colorado last night :)

Yay!

(I was going to post last night, but I was so tired from flying almost all day that I just went to sleep when I got home)

I'll post pictures soon! :)

So this week I'm in Colorado to grade the free response questions on the AP World History exam. It's been a bit like DragonCon for world history teachers...only no costumes. Over 600 world history teachers and college professors descended upon colorado state university to read essays. For a week. And the name badges aren't nearly as cool ( Read more... )

1) Spell your name without the letter E ( Read more... )

Yesterday at school I was grading a stack of essays on World War II while my kids were working. As I was grading one of the last ones, I was scanning through the essay, making sure it had all of the required elements. Near the end of the essay I saw this sentence ( Read more... )