February 2010
101 posts
hell yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o
this is how videos should be.
this is just so sad
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png
I just got
the 50 point bonus for using all of my tiles in one turn AND used the triple word score AND used the letter Z (Scrabble). I have been waiting to do this my whole life. I feel so proud. The word was “legalize” and I got 104 points. ;^)
January 2010
185 posts
oh, and RIP, of course →
this is actually funny now that i am getting by... →
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today was
pretty fantastic. My kids all loved the “Prove your Point in a Minute” game that I devised for them to practice actually proving their points in their writing, which is very important to the Writing Test since the support and elaboration strand is one of the main ways to improve a score. They were also ok with “Paragraph Surgery” - cutting a paragraph where it needs more...
several of my students'
fathers were drug dealers at some point. In my honors class. They told me about it yesterday, and how they were proud of them. One kid called it being a “pharmaceutical representative.”
the man from the department of public
instruction actually asked me today if I had considered counting homework as extra credit (instead of actually counting it as a grade) when I told him that I have very few students turning in homework every day.
Otherwise, the day went surprisingly well. It started with a skpe with my neo-scandinavian mother, and then all of my classes were incredibly smooth. Also, I went to bed instead of...
loveyourchaos: Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You //...
Are you cussing with me?
Badger: In summation, I think you just got to not do it, man. That's all.
Mr. Fox: I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?
Badger: No, you cussing with me?
Mr. Fox: Don't cussing point at me!
Badger: If you're gonna cuss, you're not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!
Badger: You're not gonna cuss with me!
Mr. Fox: Just buy the tree.
Badger: Okay.
we had yet another
faculty meeting today after school; this one featuring a video, circa 1992, on differentiated instruction that spent a lot of time on how a high school art teacher had her lower level students make flip books while the higher level students made pop up books.
This is all ok because my honors class was empty today after the athletes left early for their away game, so we sat around and read David...
“Free Trip to Heaven. Details Inside.”
– Sweet church sign near my house.
today i almost
walked out of first period because it was so bad. I even told one of my students about it. But, in the seconds before second period I decided not to let it affect my mood, and was super nice to all the kids as they came in, and even shook their hands and had a good interaction with a few of my more hesitant students. Miraculously, the same lesson went well, just because I faked it till I made...
““The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The...”
– http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/hip-hop.html
yesterday was quite
lovely. It was a total escape from the world I am usually stuck in. Saw friends, watched them play video games, and went on a very involved date that included the Nasher at Duke, Duke Gardens, seeing a bird spear and slowly consume a fish, a nice cafe in Durham, getting stuck in a very cool room, looking at some things that could be considered art and many that I would not, and then taking an art...
today, i finally found out
the whole story of the remote control. For some reason, I have a classroom that was supposed to be used for distance education and is technological. My projector screen is controlled by a remote. One day, last semester, while I was teaching, my screen magically began to move up and down. This was pretty funny, and I laughed for a bit, but it finally got annoying and got in the way of my teaching....