Monthly Archives: March, 2009
Third Try
Okay, this is the third one I’ve tried. I know this is slightly nuts of me, but I can’t stop myself, somehow! So this one is less graphically interesting, I think, but it does everything I want it to do, blog-wise, and I think the type size and organization is better. Thoughts?
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Here’s template try #2. Please click through and let me know what you think of it in the comments! It’s available in green, blue, purple. When I read The Kite Runner, I realized how much literature can do to bring us into a world we might never have experienced otherwise. Not the most groundbreaking observation, …
Template Experiments
If you’re reading this through some kind of feed-reader, would you do me a favor? Would you click through and tell me what you think of the new look? I’ve been messing around with it for awhile this afternoon, paging through all the free themes available on WordPress, feeling like I need a change but …
Friday Poetry Blogging
I still haven’t settled on a Friday blogging feature yet, but today I wrote a poem that I thought might be interesting to share. We’ve had a visiting poet at my school this week who is absolutely amazing, and today she came to my class. We read and discussed her own work, talked about books …
The Anti-Quiz
As a student, I rarely enjoyed taking quizzes. Either I did poorly because I didn’t understand the information being quizzed (often math), or did well because the quiz was so easy as to be worthless for me (usually in English class), or earned an average score and didn’t retain any of that information. As a …
Food Jags
My friend Lauren is on a cupcake jag right now. She’s been uploading a steady stream of mouthwatering photos of all these delicious cupcakes she’s been baking– pumpkin spice, red velvet, coconut, vanilla, gingerbread, all with the perfect icing, perfectly frosted, with adorable themed toppers like sparklers and hula girls. She’s one of the best …
Shakespeare Set Free: Macbeth
Both of my degrees are in American Studies, so I knew when I started teaching English that I was going to need to work hard on preparing to teach British literature, especially Shakespeare, the biggest Brit author of them all. I teach Macbeth and Hamlet, and have accumulated quite the pile of lesson plans and …
Summer
This might sound ridiculous, but I really can’t imagine ever having a job where I had to continue working all summer. Sure, I “work” on teaching and I don’t stop writing, but to sit in an office all summer, as if summer wasn’t happening right outside? Incredible. I have also always thought that true destiny …
Star Wars
I was born one year after the first Star Wars movie came out, so it has quite literally shaped my initial understanding of popular culture. My older sister was an enormous fan, and the first few Christmases I remember all involve Star Wars toys– a Yoda hand puppet, the entire Ewok playset, and innumerable action …
Spring Break
I saw my first crocuses yesterday, and there are little green sprouts all over my front yard. This past fall I planted a bunch of different flowering bulbs, and it seems like some of them are coming up! The weather has started to warm up, and it seems that spring is finally here. I’m winding …
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