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May The Best Poem Win!
The trial run of my long-awaited March Madness Poetry Tournament is finally here! I spent a good portion of this weekend, with the help of my Facebook friends, assembling a list of 32 outstanding poems that will compete against each other in head-to-head battles during each of my three freshmen English classes, beginning Tuesday and …
New Leaf, New Page: New Semester
This week is midterms at my school, which for the students means hours of cramming and worrying and (hopefully) synthesizing. They are scribbling in blue books and hoping against hope, some of them, that this exam will not swamp the average they’ve worked hard to maintain. Others are hoping for an exam miracle, while others …
Final Project: Windows and Mirrors
Recently Mrs. Chili posted in full the final project assignment for her freshmen after reading Something Wicked This Way Comes. I am wrapping up my senior elective this week, and so I thought I would post the final assignment I gave them (feel free to use or adapt if you like): In your assignment for …
Moment
Prompt: Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). They are boisterous, they are rowdy, they can be unruly, and I love them so. They are a group of students who clamor for understanding, who fumble wholeheartedly with what they do …
Thwarted and Questions
I spent some time today playing around with Slideshare, which seems like it has a lot of potential for sharing resources, especially for educators or anyone looking for inspiration or intellectual community. But then one presentation never uploaded, and when I tried to use the embedding function to post another one here, it failed. Bah, …
Teaching By Calendar
Over the past year or so, I’ve become more and more reliant on my website not just as a repository of information for my students, but as integral to our day-to-day operations. I thought I would make a post showing how I use my calendar in our daily lessons–you should be able to click on …
180 Days A Year
In a recent online discussion about the teaching profession, a blogger I respect made what I thought to be a snide comment about the easy life of teachers, and how “they only work 180 days a year, after all,” amidst concerns over teacher pay and standards. Here’s what I spent most of a sunny fall …
My First Prezi
Remember all those new tricks I’m trying this year? Well, I haven’t made as much progress on that list as I’d like–I’ve implemented the two-blog system, but haven’t been blogging with them myself yet, for example, though I plan to start soon (more tech snafus than I anticipated have slowed me down). But we began …
My School Uniform
A friend at work sent me a link today on five wardrobe essentials for the female academic in humanities, knowing that #2 (cardigans) are high on my list. I’d been tossing around the idea of a post on my own school uniform for awhile after reading some great advice on work wardrobes, so here instead …
Teach Like a Champion
This summer, one of the teaching books I read was the amazing Teach Like A Champion, and while I was deliberating about my own post, I ended up commenting on What Now?’s excellent post from the independent school perspective and also on Miss Teacha’s amazing post from her experience as an urban teacher. Just this …
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