The Turtle Part
My 11th grade students are reading THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Okay, that’s a lie. They’re studying it, though. Because I […]
Crazy-Amazing
Some days you want to forget, you hear me? And then there are days like yesterday. I never want to
Jefferson and Twitter and Cleverness
Today in eleventh grade English class, we studied the Declaration of Independence. Studied like READ it, aloud, analyzing sentence structure
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Creative Writing Class
It’s kind of unfair to say, after only a week in school, that I have the most brilliant students in
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Little Town, Big News
Things are happening around here that are causing Major News. If you don’t already know about it, ignore this. If
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A School-ish Thing
So I’m reviewing with my students Argumentative Writing. It’s a thing we did earlier in the year, which obviously I
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Sleep Stealer
It’s not like I’m an insomniac. Sleep is one of the three things I do really well. Actually, I don’t
First Day; Also Karma
I go to work in about 90 minutes. It’s District Training this week, and there are things. Things to worry
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Schooling
It’s my turn. I’m taking an English class. See, remember how I got a job? Teaching English? And how I
Your MOM Goes to College?
It’s happening. Again. I got a job. (A real one.) (Slightly more real than subbing every day.) I. Will. Be.
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