I’m curating a unit on poetry, protest, and persuasion, and here are some of the resources I’m stitching together: This is a Google Site I’ve been quilting together and updating off and on: https://sites.google.com/view/mrslovespoetrypage/home Still have more to do, and will take suggestions.
Once upon a time I believed I possessed agency as an educator/teacher. Maybe I did, or perhaps it was just an illusion. And now I am wondering, with all my personality flaws and creative, meandering ways of planning instruction: should we still be teaching whole-class novels? And is there something “wrong” with me if I… Read More Rethinking Teaching Novels
I typed these up and then hit alpha: alpha status does not imply heart status. The truth is what makes me me, and my life precious to me, is the substance and amalgamation of my memories and experiences.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Allie Alvis (@book_historia) Post by @kclovepix View on Threads 2. Idea connection: Have students write a list of discussion topics. To help them get started, they need to have creative constraints: Post by @kclovepix View on Threads 3. Idea connection: Understand social norms — how they… Read More Ideas off the ‘net
An ELA teacher asked about our thoughts (other ELA teachers) and their thoughts about students using sites like SparkNotes, etc. One teacher said students who use these sites are, in her words, “lame” and “lazy.” I’m immediately transported back to 1979, 1980, when I was assigned Romeo and Juliet, and immediately drove to the local… Read More A little help, please.
In real-time, I watched the news on January 6, 2021, and admittedly witnessed the horror unfolding as the outgoing president worked with his followers to overthrow our government. Post by @ryanjreilly View on Threads We have had one really cool thing in our nation: the peaceful transfer of power until he was in office. My… Read More January 6, 2021
Post by @kclovepix View on Threads Lucky — because I am blessed with ideas Yesterday, I met two amazing ladies for wine and talking — one I have known for a while, and the other is a new friend. We have a lot of mutuals in common, with some varying degrees of experiences from positive… Read More Lucky
Shared materials on helping build schema… Read More Schema.
It’s those small moments, that almost go unnoticed, completely off-script, that I need to capture and hold. Not the grudges, not the petty insults and bad-faith colleagues. In passing, somehow the topic of what I’m currently teaching right now came up: and be clear, if I never had to touch To Kill a Mockingbird again… Read More You’re the real one, Mrs. Love
Note: Hey, whatever…just needed a place to track and store some of my intrusive and silly thoughts. I know others have it harder, I know the world is on fire and being emulsified with a mixture of gasoline and blood…I know. The specters of mortal sins rattle their chains on national media sources, and the… Read More 2023: My year in review, or why I am starting to sympathize with Mdme. Loisel
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