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by Cynthia Rylant by Anton Chekhov “The Bet“ by Shirley Jackson by O. Henry by by Robert Frost |
by e. e. cummings “why must itself up every of a by Edward Arlington Robinson by Frank R. Stockton by by Toni Cade Bambara |
Teaching the Outsiders
- No Soup for YouMost classes finished MAUS I today. Most all of them are riveted. I’ve had three tell me they went out and bought both books for themselves. (We’re making do with class sets of each chapter that my aide and I have xeroxed from my old books.) Half of them aren’t listening to the instructions for the warm up because they’ve pulled a chapter from under their de […]
- MAUS is back. (Rerun)In my 20 years at this school, I have been stuck with 8th graders exactly three times. This is not one of those years, and since I am now the de facto “Introduction to Video Production” teacher, chances are that I won’t be again any time soon. Whew. Although I did consider asking for a section this year just so I could have my boy for one more year. (Cue the […]
- Speaking of…Eighth grader designs standardized test that slams standardized tests. From the Washington Post. I’ll be back later. […]
- Even “Disneyland” is in Danger (Part 1)First off, I am liking the idea of the “crosstalk” in the comments. This back and forth without me is looking pretty groovy. (Also I am interested in the role that weather plays in the school year in places where they actually have weather.) It got me thinking I could install some discussion board software and get a little “sharing” going on. Then I wouldn […]
- The PitchI was going to blog some responding to Mrs. M’s links about corporate dollars driving people to bail from the profession on us. I had read her first link, and was already formulating some thoughts, but I had not seen the latest one. Gawd, what are people thinking? I will be back soon to talk more of these atrocities, but tonight I had to attend the orientat […]