I’ve been icky sick for the past few days/a week, and I haven’t had a chance to post all the things I’ve wanted to. I’m currently heading to bed as soon as I press “Publish,” there to remain until the latest possible second. I got to show my students the following video today, and the [...]
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Too Late to Apologize
Posted in High School on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Down in the Boondocks
Posted in High School on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Teenagers are funny creatures. Some days you just want to kill them, and some days they amaze you. Yesterday, I had my students do a creative writing exercise about living in a tenement building in the late-19th century. They used a story chain method, where each person in the group writes one sentence in the [...]
The One Where I Cry in Front of My Students
Posted in High School on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve finally gotten to the Civil War (or War for Southern Independence, if you prefer), and I have caved and begun to show my students “The Civil War” by Ken Burns. I was going to try to avoid the temptation, but as I was preparing my lessons, and delivering some of the earliest, I kept [...]
