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THIS is why I love teaching
Written by Luis, one of my ESoL students, while in our regular English class:
"In my house a crazymouse play with me every time when I was in the house and I was angry because I can't trap the stupid mouse and one day the mouse eat many cheese and he was very fat then he can't run and then I put snare and go outside he was dead of many cheeses or -
It's time to re-define your deophobic mind...
found this video of skillet's here: http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=725712838863fb1a260b
it deals with child abuse and rescue. good stuff.
and this is the video of Plumb's "Cut" (about self-mutilation, something that has hit home with me too many times when it came to people i love). http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey= ( Read more... ) -
Y'all might like this
Written by one of my co-teachers ( Read more... ) -
if you become the change...what happens tomorrow?
ahhhh...what a great two days it has been. an exhausting two days, for sure, but great nonetheless ( Read more... ) -
Sound device
We did some review for the mid-term in Eng. 1 today. When asked what assonance is, one of my students replied, "It's not having sex until you're married." -
(Untitled)
"Here I am, Lord, and I'm drowning
In Your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don’t want to end up where You found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight
I know You've cast my sin as far
As the East is from the West
And I stand before You now
As though I've never sinned
But today I ( Read more... ) -
I don't normally cry at school...
but this did it for me. Please go check it out...It's a five-minute clip of a skit done to Lifehouse's "Everything" on what would seem to be a cheesy website, but it's phenomenal and is my heart's cry...there are so many people in my life whose lives are in pieces, and it breaks my heart.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey= ( Read more... ) -
a must
you guys have to go check out my friend hollis roberts' music. go here: http://www.holliselisabeth.com
at the bottom you'll see a link to download the windows media file "unforgotten voices." holy guacamole...it's amazing. you won't regret it. -
For you writers
People are getting paid for bad writing. If you don't believe me, go here: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2007.htm
The winning sentence:
"Gerald began-but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for ( Read more... ) -
Still alive
Lately I've been in this uncomfortable time of conviction and introspection...The vileness of me compared to the holiness of God is generally very disconcerting. I'm proud. I'm arrogant. I almost always have to have the last word. I speak before I listen. I isolate myself from people most all the time. I talk about people far more than I like to ( Read more... )