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Things Overheard in the Classroom

I'm not entirely sure how much noneducators will appreciate this blog... but while my fifth-period kiddos worked on their short stories...

Dec 13, 2023

Last year, I had an idea. And that idea was to create something I like to refer to as "Monday Melodies." Do you know how cool it is for...

Oct 3, 2023

We are reading To Kill A Mockingbird in class right now, and because the majority of my students refuse to do any outside-of-class...

Apr 19, 2023

Generally speaking, grading papers isn't fun, but if there's one thing capable of making such a task enjoyable, it's stickers. I much...

Feb 14, 2023

Even though Black History Month starts tomorrow, my freshmen and I got a jumpstart on it today when we began learning about Golden Shovel...

Jan 31, 2023

As was addressed in one of last week's blogs, my students have been watching Psycho and analyzing all sorts of things in the film. Today,...

Jan 12, 2023

One of my favorite units of the entire school year is the one that focuses on Hitchcock's classic film Psycho. It's what we've been doing...

Jan 5, 2023

These weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are busy, busy, busy. My sophomores are reading Macbeth (so many props!), my freshmen are...

Dec 6, 2022

I have a student whom we will refer to as Mr. Great-With-Accents and while reading Act One, Scene One of Romeo and Juliet in class the...

Nov 2, 2022

Ever heard of NaNoWriMo? That's short for National Novel Writing Month, and since I write a lot of novels, I decided to advise a...

Nov 1, 2022