writing
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Where do you come down on the idea of time travel? Good idea or bad? I’m not asking because I have finally broken through to the technology to do it (or have I?…MWAHAHAHA). I am just thinking over things. I think of myself existing in a state of three beings. If you grew up in…
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Mrs sky y am i faling ur clas????? Dear Unnamed Student, It is an interesting question you have posed. Not only from an aesthetic perspective (ur=your?), but from a grammatic perspective as well. When a question is read aloud, the emphasis of certain words can change the meaning of the question. For example: “WHY am…
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Normally, I wouldn’t write one of these out two days in a row, because that implies I have more free time than I actually do. But I had a wee hiccup in my day that caused me to need to self-soothe a little bit. Since my stand on day drinking remains the same (hard no),…
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My last post was 14 day before the school year began and now I am 14 days after. In the last fourteen days, I have gotten to know my students a little better and they have gotten to know me a little better. I know which ones can sit in a chair for the time…
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Y’all! I did it! Well, that could be an overstatement. How about…It might finally be happening! I write a lot about the challenging kids here. I write about the ways they make me reflect on my teaching and my attitude, and whether or not it is too late to become a florist. But today…today! Student…
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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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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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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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