One of My Favorite Lines from "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Curiosity

SNOW DAY!!!

Constantly Seeing and Re-Seeing

Many teachers will agree that we are constantly learning from our students, re-seeing topics, issues, and literature through the eyes of our students. 

Today was a glorious Monday off school, so I spent some time re-seeing the world through the eyes of my three year-old son.  We visited the Mitchell Park Domes and then went exploring along the edge of Lake Michigan.

Our Field Trip to See "How the World Began"

 

 

The Art of Conversation

"There is no conversation more boring than the one
where everybody agrees."  --Michel de Montaigne

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Textbook Art

 


A great source of art comes to teachers and students through our textbooks.  Whenever I use our Brit. Lit. or American Lit. textbook to look at short stories or poems, I ask students why they think our textbook authors chose to pair a particular piece of artwork with the work of literature we're looking at. 

Brightening Up a Winter Monday

Today my Writing Lab class made a bulletin board filled with positive quotations.  We encouraged students and staff to pick a quote to keep with them in their pockets.  By the end of the day, the board was almost bare!  My favorite quote chosen by a student was by Joyce Meyer:  "A number two pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."