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It's A Metaphor, Right?: The End-of-Summer Shadow
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Thursday, August 13, 2015. Teacher-educator Kelly Gallagher describes late Sunday afternoon as “the 4:00 shadow,” the time when every teacher feels that twinge of urgency to wind up her preparations for the week (. It is a positive feeling, with dysphoric undercurrents—as adrenaline fires up creativity and anticipation of classroom interactions, it also unsettles subtle anxieties from their weekend rest: how will I get this student on board this week? How will students receive it?
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: A Monstrous Preoccupation
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Thank you to Two Writing Teachers. For the opportunity to participate in Slice of Life today! I have been planning a "monsters" unit for my 10th grade students this fall. After a four-year hiatus from teaching this grade, I am eager to return to its standard texts- Frankenstein, Macbeth, Beowulf, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm. How do we define the monstrous? What or whom do we label as monsters, and why? Dr Cialtron/Flickr: "From Hell n 006". Protagonists ...
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: Cross-Compositional
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Wednesday, July 15, 2015. I spent my first five undergraduate semesters studying music. Though the program was performance-track, I had many opportunities to write, and almost always about music. I wrote about the competing "dictates of structure and expressivity" for a paper on George Rochberg's third string quartet (which, in my youthful assessment, ". My students also enjoy writing about music. It is among the top subjects they choose for their independent writing entries&#...
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: September 2015
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Saturday, September 5, 2015. When A Child Dies. Thursday evening I read Barbara J. King’s “What Is the Psychic Toll of Gun Violence? In which the author admits her relative insulation, as a white, middle-class woman, from all but the most distant ramifications of violence. While sharing King’s concerns about recent acts of violence in national headlines, I considered that I, too, had avoided direct or even somewhat-distanced experiences with violence. School—on the life of a...
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: What Made Me Happy This Week
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Saturday, August 6, 2016. What Made Me Happy This Week. 1 Women (real and fictional) who do not take crap from anyone:. On Netflix (strong language and subject matter). Unfiltered, opinionated, cathartically crude. It's the best! Also on Netflix (more of the same). Same as above, times ten. A character who is as flawed as she is gritty and compassionate. 2 Sherman Alexie novels about holding on to the good in ugly situations. Does God approve of some killing and not other killing?
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: Taking Stock, and Investigating Dialogical Writing
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Monday, July 6, 2015. Taking Stock, and Investigating Dialogical Writing. Jean Marc Cote (if 1901) or Villemard (if 1910),. Future school" (1901 or 1910). Via en.wikepedia.org and. The blemish of an unaddressed mistake or an unresolved oversight? The ugly scratches of students handicapped by prescriptive writing assignments, rubric-dependent rather than confidently autonomous? Assessing this year's final picture has led me to some conclusions:. In "the riches, embarrassments, vict...
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: August 2016
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Saturday, August 6, 2016. What Made Me Happy This Week. 1 Women (real and fictional) who do not take crap from anyone:. On Netflix (strong language and subject matter). Unfiltered, opinionated, cathartically crude. It's the best! Also on Netflix (more of the same). Same as above, times ten. A character who is as flawed as she is gritty and compassionate. 2 Sherman Alexie novels about holding on to the good in ugly situations. Does God approve of some killing and not other killing?
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: Friend and Foil
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Saturday, August 29, 2015. I can think of few (good) books that lack character foils. I am thinking now of. Foils, not foe-foils: Huck and Jim, Ralph and Piggy, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Watson and Holmes. The best children’s literature features odd couples, too: where would. Charlotte’s Web, Winnie the Pooh,. The Wizard of Oz. Be without the mismatched-pals dynamic? Terry Spencer Hesser’s Kissing Doorknobs. And Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. Uniquely, I Will Save You’s. Exert mor...
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It's A Metaphor, Right?: Music to Move To
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It's A Metaphor, Right? Friday, July 17, 2015. Music to Move To. Taking a page from my students’ notebooks, I return to a favorite topic. Kids variously call it tunes. However their slang for it evolves, its own language never needs translation. So, today—music that quickens my pulse, fourteen years after the first listening:. Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. I first encountered Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis. July 20, 2015 at 5:34 PM. Music to Move To.
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