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My Take on This...
"It is 2013 and you find yourself in a modern-day adventure that parallels that of Odysseus in ancient times but with one major difference: you get to choose one sidekick who will survive with you all the way to Ithaca, aiding you through all the same adventures Odysseus had. Moreover, your sidekick will help you overcome Penelope's suitors and ( Read more... ) -
Teaching Tidbits (and more): A Day of Yay
I snagged a copy of Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook based on a recommendation from a colleague, and it's cracking me up. I'm really looking forward to curling up with it for a few giggles, but it'll have to wait a while. I have plans to bang out.
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Gee, I'm so glad I did this...
Um, not.
Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
80%
Jean-Luc Picard
65%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
55%
Mr. Scott
55%
Deanna Troi
55%
Beverly Crusher
50%
Geordi LaForge
50%
Will Riker
50%
Data
46%
Worf
40%
Spock
37%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
35%
Uhura
35%
Chekov
30%
Mr. Sulu
25%
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Making Kids' Heads Explode
This year is the first year I've ever been required to give a semester final, and I agonized over it for weeks before coming to a decision: I wouldn't do it. Instead I decided to turn it back on students, who'd have to reflect on what they've learned in my class over the course of the semester and find a way to prove to me that they have. I ( Read more... ) -
Personal Family Stuff
I was looking for a particular letter in one of my mother's photo albums, which meant I had to go looking through a half dozen before I found the one I was looking for. Going through photos of my family during the 60s and 70s particularly a family portrait that must've been taken in 1972.
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A work in progress
I'm still not satisfied with this, but it's progressing. Very slowly. I just don't know how to organize it. *sigh*
You ask the impossible. You want
martyrs - now, having
already stretched us
past
the
breaking
point.
We do without supplies,
without technology,
without ( Read more... ) -
Toying with another radical teaching idea
Instead of creating a long multiple-choice-and-short-essay semester final -- well four of them, actually, since I'd need one for English 9, an accelerated one for pre-AP English 9, a modified one for co-op English 9, and one more for AP Language and Composition -- what if I told students it's THEIR job to show me what they've learned this semester ( Read more... ) -
Three Poems for Veterans
Honoring those who serve on Veterans Day...
( The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War ) -
Finns, TVT, Discouragement, and Dilemmas
Perhaps my life's destination is a succession of Sisyphean escapes from one intolerable situation to another. Teaching is about to become intolerable in Arizona. In my second period class on Wednesday we talked about how we all thought the education system in Arizona was already at the bottom of the country, and yet it is now taking another ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I'm fiddling around in my head with ideas for a PBL Poetry project, but not getting very far. I really, really don't want to dive into the textbook and go through the stuff that's there, but I'm drawing a blank when searching the usual sources for poetry projects. There is a part of me that just wants to toss the Arizona State and Common Core ( Read more... )