Swift's Vision

 "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."  --Jonathan Swift

High School Linguistics

In addition to AP English, American Authors, and Writing Lab (crazy year!!), I also teach an elective course on Linguistics (I designed the class for my Master's thesis project).  For those of you interested in learning more about teaching Linguistics at the high school level, I invite you to visit:  http://highschoollinguistics.blogspot.com

Juan and Sabrina meet our guest speaker on Dec. 21st

Going To See a Play

There is something special about seeing a play:  the lights dimming, the characters entering, stepping out of  regular routine for a day.  Today our AP class went to see the Milwaukee Rep's performance of A Christmas Carol.  Most exciting to me is that some students were seeing their very first play!  After the performance we enjoyed a sunny stroll along the Milwaukee River Walk and had lunch at the Grand Avenue Mall.

 

 

Looking at the World

I ran across this quote from Louise Gluck in this week's issue of The Week:

"We look at the world once, in childhood.  The rest is memory."

I would add that we get a second chance to look at the world:  in parenthood.

My family playing in the leaves