So I'm trying to teach essay writing to my bottom set Year 9s (14 year olds). It's tough going. Almost all the kids in the room are special needs. Some of them have really picked up the idea of the lesson, but some are struggling ( Read more... )

This one cracked me up today. A quote from a case in Tennessee, 1926, where a man by the name of John Scopes was charged with illegally teaching Darwinism ( Read more... )

Ha! Novel rewrite is finished ( Read more... )

(*cough* soccer *cough ( Read more... )

I've been terrible at updating, I know. Don't think I've said anything about how my course is going since I started it in September ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to Jules!

Wooooo!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UeypOvsY91Q

Sometimes things don't go, after all ( Read more... )

( US Elections )

Well, a few people liked the last one I posted, so I thought I'd try another. This one is basically straight from a dream I had about a year ago, which should explain the rather laxical approach to causical sense-making. I decided I really wanted to keep the feel of the dream.

Here goes:

( The Pod )

The other week, or one before, I went to America, where there was an extremely awesome Wedding that involved dancing and which was followed by a trip to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, where there was an ocean that offered opportunities to swim after black fins in the water that I was fairly sure weren't sharks and luckily turned out to be ( Read more... )