Had my evaluation with Barry today. It went well as I tried something new. As a class, we did a guided reading, and then filled in a chart related to the reading material. I made use of one of the two Critical Thinking books I bought while at UBC. It was good, although too bad that I could do the whole activity and had to shorten it some since I ( Read more... )

While the kids took tests today, I scratched out the rest of my semster, and what I'll be doing for the rest of the week in brief. I still need to write out a lesson plan for tomorrow, even though I have it all in my head. I need to get some stuff from my sponsor, must remember that ( Read more... )

I just happened to have The Insider turned on when they talked about Sheryl Crow's new collaboration with Sting. It seems that Sheryl takes a very moving song on her CD Wildflower and turned it into a duet.

Always On Your Side (duet version) unfortunately comes out after the release of her CD Wildflower so I went to her official website to find ( Read more... )

My summer registration was successful after three tries. I swear, the UBC computer system was not being nice to me. And of course, by the time I got my worklist to actually register, the section of the one of the classes I wanted was full, so I had to go back to the list and pick out another section of the class. Thank god there were a good half a ( Read more... )

Last day before Spring Break! I gave my students a pretty easy day as I let them go at a class debate. It didn't turn out too badly, although there were arguments that I thought were questionable, but hey, that's normal. Of course, the students found the topic slightly silly, and one of my students made his arguments a little silly. That put the ( Read more... )

What's different about today? Owen's not here. He's at a training session, and I'm taking over his classes. It's not so bad. The SS11 is just lecturing stuff, and the Law 12 class has a test. Several of my students from all classes are going to on a Rugby Tour to Australia, so preparing for them was a little bit more difficult ( Read more... )

So I taught a two-part lesson on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It started yesterday with an exercise where the students have to make cases where their freedoms are violated. Today, they had a concept obtainment exercise where they had to figure out what was government action. After all their hard work, as the concept obtainment exercise was ( Read more... )

Reese Won!! My darling Reese won for Best Actress in a Motion Picture. Not only that, but Ang Lee won for Best Director, and Crash won for Best Movie. This was an amazing Oscar as far as awards go. But John Stewart just wasn't as good a host as some of the past MCs from previous years.

More on the clothes later.

Had a four corners class debate today for both my classes. Owen joined in on this adventure and it went fairly well with both classes. One class didn't even get to finish. Maybe we'll have some time at the start of Monday for it.

Big day today! Lots to do and too little time ( Read more... )