I owe California Teacher Guy an apology.
CTG is one of the most ardent supporters of Grammar Wednesday (along with Kizz, who also sends me great material and ideas for this feature). A few weeks ago, he sent me a great GW post, but in the hustle of the last weeks of school – both for [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 25, 2008
Grammar Wednesday
June 23, 2008
Blast From the Past
A few days ago, I was alerted to a comment to this post from last year. The commenter gave me a lot to think about, so I emailed back with my response. I’ve decided to post it here, because I think this is an important conversation to have. The commenter’s remarks are in italics.
I realize [...]
June 20, 2008
Book Suggestions?
A friend of mine sent me this email this morning:
Good morning.
Read any good books lately? I am looking for something to read. I’m all “hobbited out” for the moment.
I’d love to find something in the vein of 1984, but that provides commentary on our current slide towards an authoritarian state.
At least the Supreme Court seems [...]
June 18, 2008
Grammar Wednesday
Sorry, you guys; I’ve got nothing for you today (remember that Mrs. Chili takes Grammar Wednesday requests!!). I had to resort to my old standby material trick; I grabbed a style guide, set it upright on its spine, and let it fall open where it may. Today, I’m going to write a little [...]
June 17, 2008
Ten Things Tuesday
Reflections on this past semester:
1. I didn’t show nearly enough speeches to my public speaking class. In the future, I’m going to play more to my strengths as a literary analyst and give my students a lot more historic speeches to read and watch. It’s important that they be given good examples [...]
June 16, 2008
What Have You Learned?
This is always the time of the year, metaphorically speaking, that I do a lot of self-analysis (as if I don’t do enough already, but you know what I mean). The end of the semester is a time for me to look back on the last few months, to assess what I’ve done and what [...]
June 11, 2008
Grammar Wednesday
Inspired by Kizz.
Yesterday, I wrote a post on my personal blog where I spoke of offering “one-of” specialty yoga classes at my health club. Kizz left this as a comment:
This is utterly off topic but I learned it as “one-off” and this is the second time I’ve seen you write “one-of”, where do we [...]
June 10, 2008
Suggestions
I want to show my composition kids a movie on Thursday. They’re handing in their research papers and I really don’t have anything more planned for them for the semester, but we still have to meet for the class period, anyway Do any of you have any suggestions on what a good film for [...]
June 9, 2008
Some of Them Are SO Sweet!
Damned near my entire composition class took a nose dive ’round about the 7th week of our 11-week course. I, in a desperate attempt to get them re-focused and energized, offered them the Last Minute Larry solution. I found this amongst the papers in one student’s portfolio (I only edited my name, his [...]
June 5, 2008
AFGO, Part IV
When we last left our heroine, she had written a pair of letters to The Powers That Be about Jon’s behavior and why she wanted him out of her classroom.
I submitted the letters to Joe, who told me that he’d forward them to the other appropriate Powers and that they’d have a conference at some [...]
