I've never successfully completed a National Novel Writing Month Novel, and my first year of teaching is probably not the best time to try again, but one of my friends asked me to do it with her, and I will have Teacher's Convention and Thanksgiving and everything, so:


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I've just reviewed a collection analysis that last year's librarian ordered, and unfortunately it's not as helpful as I would have hoped. It's too general to really help (for example, I know we need more easy-reading nonfiction, but there's no category for that ( Read more... )

Today, while reading a version of Stone Soup set in China where the soup makers were Buddhist monks, I asked a third-grade class what they thought a monk was. Before cutting them off, I got ( Read more... )

It's not enough of an insult that Learning Style Inventories are a complete crock with absolutely no supporting evidence, or even that it has been repeatedly shown, in direct contradiction to the theory, that students will do better when lessons are involve multiple learning styles than one learning style, even when that sole learning style has ( Read more... )

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife ( Read more... )

I submitted about a page of text in my earlier test. Then I resubmitted the last 3 paragraphs separately:


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 It's 12:15 am, the wee hours of Tuesday morning, July 15.  I am 25 years old ( Read more... )

 I CAN HAS JOB!!!

 Can someone, anyone born after 1900, other than Neil Gaiman, write one(1) short story for adults about something other than suburban ennui descending into soul-crushing despair?

Surely there is at least one other subject that is suitable for the short story medium.  Please?