Shakespearean Candidates
Via Mike LoMonico:
Similar Posts
Catching Up: Folger Education
I have been trying all week to finish the last English Journal so I can gush about all the Folger goodness, but I haven’t had a chance. Lest I let too much more time slip by, I’ll discuss the articles I have had a chance to read. Mike LoMonico, as usual, is on target with…
Why Fiction Matters
Grant Wiggins made a lot of waves yesterday with a post the ASCD blog The Edge in which he calls for banning the reading of fiction in schools in order to encourage boys to read and help students improve nonfiction reading skills. He says he wrote meaning to provoke, and he certainly did. The blog…
The Teacher’s Daybook, 2008-2009
I just pre-ordered my copy of Jim Burke’s handy planner, The Teacher’s Daybook, updated for 2008-2009. The planner will not actually be released until July 10. Usually, it is released much earlier, and I wonder if some of the changes made didn’t cause a delay in publication. The planners usually run from July to June…
Back to the Drawing Board
My lesson on Thomas Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” bombed pretty spectacularly today. Well, that might be a bit hyperbolic. Surely the time of day, and few classroom irregularities also bear some blame. I began the lesson by telling students I was going to tell them a story. In Rebecca Fraser’s The Story of…
Blogging Huckleberry Finn
Beginning on Tuesday, February 20, my 10th graders will be blogging about Huck Finn as part of their study of the novel. You can follow their blogging at my student blog. Watch for it! Meanwhile, Anne sent me a link to Taylor Mali’s audio poem, “What Teachers Make.” Enjoy! Download link [tags]Huckleberry Finn, blogging, Taylor…
Overdue Updates
I really need to go through my files and see what I can upload to the handouts page. I know I’ve come up with some things I haven’t added. I have now gone to Curriculum Nights for three children and participated in my own, so perhaps my evenings will once again return to some semblance…
2 Comments
Comments are closed.
I saw this on Mike's facebook too – I'm so amused.
Spectacular! If I could find an academic justification for showing this to my senior Media & American Lit. classes…. In the meantime, I'll laugh to myself and share with friends. 🙂