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Teacher has student. Student does not love subject matter. Student does love extracurricular. Student is gone for long period of time. Student returns to school, and makes no mention at all of doing any make-up work. Nor does student take any action to do work that had been due previous to long absence. Ready for…
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Poetry stations Fills my heart with hot rage So never again.
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Sound off in the comments folks: have you ever had one of those days where the opening chords of “Walking on Sunshine” replace the sound of the alarm in your head, and you spring out of bed ready to carpe the heck out of this diem, and then you trip over your own insecurity, slip…
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This morning, when I woke up, the first thing I thought of was writing. How do I help them love writing? How do I show them, or help them see how each stroke of a key is like a stroke of a brush, the sweep of a blending tool, the saturating color of pastels? We…
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How many of you have asked a kid why they did or did not do something? You can see the scenario in your mind clearly, can’t you? You are standing in front of a young person, maybe one hand is on your hip and they are staring at you with a mixture of defiance, guilt,…
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Sound off in the comments if I am wrong, science teachers, but the combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom makes a water molecule. The last science class I took was a long, long time ago, but that stuck in my memory and I think it is true. (Though in an effort to…
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This is what the Oxford English Dictionary has to say for the definition of the word “artificial”: adj. and n.; of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally. A substitute for something that occurs naturally. Today, a student…
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Every word in this sentence has a job to do. It has a job title, a place in the word value hierarchy, and is part of the overall product of the sentence. We are nouns. I am. You are. My kids are. We are also pronouns. I call my(possessive pronoun) daughter (noun) “she” (pronoun) when…
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How often do you use the phrase “I should have (enter past-tense verb here)”? I decided this week to count how many times I use it, and today alone I am up to 14. I should have brought more than one pair of shoes to Chicago. I should have called the doctor earlier in the…
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It is the middle of the beginning of the end of July, which means that summer is steadily trickling away. The 4th of July decor has been fully replaced by back-to-school sales and supplies. (Inexplicably, my craft store has erupted with Halloween supplies, and there is a corner dedicated to Christmas decorations.) The price of…
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