Ugh.
I got my students’ inaugural essays on Monday and have been trying to slog my way through them all week. I’ve only got 17 kids in the class, and only 12 of them turned work in, so you wouldn’t think it’d be that big a deal, right?
Well, you’d be wrong.
For starters, most students – all, [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 29, 2009
Conflicted
January 28, 2009
Grammar Wednesday
We’re back with another installment of Grammar Wednesday! (and you thought I’d forgotten!)
This week’s offering is brought to you by California Teacher Guy, who is in the midst of picking himself up and dusting himself off, but who still found the time to email me with a grammar glitch he found in a major newspaper’s [...]
January 27, 2009
Twice in One Day
We never really know, as teachers, how much of an effect we have on our students, though sometimes they give us hints about how much we meant to them.
I heard from two students from last term at Local U. yesterday – and each of them was from a different class. Evan sent me a text [...]
January 24, 2009
REALLY!?
Here’s one of those things that, if it hadn’t actually happened to me, I wouldn’t have believed it.
I received this email from one of my students on Monday:
I have to work tomorrow night and I will not be able to watch the Inaugural Speech and I don’t know anyone that has access of taping [...]
January 22, 2009
I’m Still Here!
I’m sorry – I know I promised to write more regularly here, but I’ve been busy the last week or so. We just returned last night from a trip to DC to witness the inauguration of President Obama (YAY!), and much of my time has been otherwise engaged. You can go here for posts about [...]
January 11, 2009
Rubric for the Inaugural Assignment
I’m putting this assignment in writing for my class; I’ve essentially cut-and-pasted the assignment as I wrote it in the previous entry. To be fair, though, I added a bit about how, regardless of what we may think of his politics, Obama is considered by many to be an outstanding and charismatic public speaker. Dudley [...]
January 9, 2009
The Inaugural Assignment
My students are going to have week three of eleven weeks completely off from our class. Monday the 19th is the Martin Luther King holiday and, on Wednesday, I’ll be coming home from DC with my family after having (hopefully) witnessed the inauguration ceremonies in person (I know, I know… us and five million other [...]
January 7, 2009
Grammar Wednesday
Grammar Wednesday is back on! I don’t have much for today, though; if you’ve got a nagging grammar question, or you see something grammatically questionable, please send it in. I very happily take questions and suggestions at mrschili at comcast dot net.
I saw this a few weeks ago when O’Mama and I were in our [...]
January 5, 2009
Day One…
…went pretty well!
I have 16 students on my roster. Thirteen of them showed up today and, when I asked those assembled if they knew of the missing students, many of them rolled their eyes and said that they weren’t surprised in the least that those particular three boys didn’t show. Sigh. Whatever.
It seems like it’s [...]
January 4, 2009
The First Two Classes
I’m finding myself doing a whole lot of procrastinating about getting ready to teach tomorrow, so I’ve decided that I’m going to plan the first two classes here. Maybe posting my plans will help keep me, you know, actually making plans; I tend to be a teach-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of gal, especially when it comes to [...]
