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Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder: June 2010
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Thursday, June 24, 2010. Action: Figure It Out. I am a big fan of "looking before I leap," that is, thinking and analyzing the hell out of things before I get to doing them. Unfortunately, just because I am a fan of something doesn't mean it's the right way to go. Otherwise there would be a lot more Mt. Dew, bacon, people wearing superhero outfits, and babies. Back to the question at hand: should we think things through beforehand? Agreed. Good then. Wednesday, June 9, 2010. Oh Potter, You Rotter. You mu...
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Birds are loud: April 2013
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And other less-than-keen observations. Thursday, April 11, 2013. Card tricks against humanity. Sometimes teaching can make you want to tear your hair out. And other times, it just makes you laugh. You can't. Exactly.). I said yes, sure, just be quiet and keep them to yourself. I watched him practice card tricks. In the back of class, and later collected the tests. Several days later, I cleaned out my desk drawer and discovered that all I had left of the deck of cards was the flimsy box they came in.
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Birds are loud: November 2011
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And other less-than-keen observations. Thursday, November 3, 2011. There might be ghosts. After my first week living in this historic house I wrote a post about how it's haunted, citing mainly the fact that we have a medicine cabinet and none of our lights really work. I have settled in to the house since then. I am no longer weary of the tiny door to the attic at the foot of my bed nor the demon stove, which only seems to attack Marca. Don't even know they're ghosts. Because it was about ghosts, adventu...
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Birds are loud: beating a dead horse?
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Beating a dead horse? I promised a lot of people that I would blog about learning to teach, and sadly I have let all of them down. Until today. 10 PM is my new bedtime, and 11 PM is my new "why am I still awake"-time, mostly because 5:30 is my new wake-up time. Also because (I don't know if you have heard this yet) teaching is exhausting. I was teaching a lesson in summer school today about multiplying complex fractions. It is only week one.
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Birds are loud: dozers
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, September 19, 2012. The last time I wrote, I was a baby teacher nearing the middle of her training in Chicago. Now I am a baby teacher looking back on her first month of teaching in a real live public school to real live children. Alright, so my students aren't all. Sleeping though my classes. There are a few who have gotten away with sleeping if they prop their head on a binder- OH WAIT. No they didn't. Newsflash. Although, I do have one. The days go by ...
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Birds are loud: June 2012
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Beating a dead horse? I promised a lot of people that I would blog about learning to teach, and sadly I have let all of them down. Until today. 10 PM is my new bedtime, and 11 PM is my new "why am I still awake"-time, mostly because 5:30 is my new wake-up time. Also because (I don't know if you have heard this yet) teaching is exhausting. I was teaching a lesson in summer school today about multiplying complex fractions. Links to this post.
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Birds are loud: February 2014
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Source: Staples eReader Department. I got 548 words per minute! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Source: Staples eReader Department I got 548 word. Ask Sister Mary Martha. Under the Mistletoe with You! Merry Christmas (season) and a Joyous New Year! Before we know it the Wise (if you insist) Men will arrive and you can finally take t. Scenery is Fine - but Human Nature is Finer. Haven't posted in a while. So I've been lax...
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Birds are loud: October 2011
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And other less-than-keen observations. Sunday, October 2, 2011. Procrastiknitting, meet procrastiblogging. Things that I am thinking about right now:. I don't want to be writing this paper. Prompt: If you'd been put in charge of raising you, what would you do the same and what would you do differently? What "risk factors" do you think you could have avoided? Seriously. "Tell me how your parents messed you up. Be explicit. Also, be explicit enough to fill 2-3 pages single spaced. This paper but not. Befor...
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Birds are loud: September 2012
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, September 19, 2012. The last time I wrote, I was a baby teacher nearing the middle of her training in Chicago. Now I am a baby teacher looking back on her first month of teaching in a real live public school to real live children. Alright, so my students aren't all. Sleeping though my classes. There are a few who have gotten away with sleeping if they prop their head on a binder- OH WAIT. No they didn't. Newsflash. Although, I do have one. The days go by ...
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Birds are loud: May 2013
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And other less-than-keen observations. Wednesday, May 8, 2013. I found my post-Institute reflection from this summer, and reading it again at the end of the year may have helped me to re-focus. I was terrified of starting Teach for America in Chicago and later teaching in Jacksonville, but this is how I felt after I had made it through five weeks of "teacher boot camp". I'd like to share it here for anyone who wants to read it. I have had some horrible days here. Days where I bomb my lesson by teachi...
