It is clear to me from my own two seventh graders and the seventy-three kids I teach that they have not learned a whole bunch of pronoun usage rules. Three egregious one: Ben and me went to see Mr. Hood. (ow – objective instead of nominative case) He’s bigger than me. (Comparisons use nominative case.)…
Month: February 2010
Playlist Part 2 – R & B and (just post) college
R &B/Soul/Jazz that I discovered in Chicago Just saying – these artists didn’t get a lot of airplay in South Dakota. If I heard them it was after dark on a clear channel out of Minneapolis or Chicago. Stax stuff especially cool. The Five Stairsteps – “O-o-h Child” (a good song during tough stuff) The…
Reading student stories – playlist
I am looking for suggestions of songs that are motivational, energizing, BUT not too distracting to add to the “I am reading student stories” playlist. No show tunes: I sing along. So here are parts from my playlist: Faves From Middle School and High School Billy Preston – I can still see Charlie Hendrickson leading…
Break
February Recess is upon us. February Recess, where we save up all those days that the public schools take off (Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Casimir Pulaski Day) and take a week off of school. Ostensibly, it breaks the flu contagion cycle. I’d like to think that it also breaks up the negativity contagion cycle that…
Poltroon, you say?
We are reading Romeo and Juliet in my seventh grade classes. I think R&J is more of a freshman book, but the frosh English teachers don’t teach it and the 8th grade teacher reads Macbeth with his class, so I gotta figure we can do something with this 400+ year old play that features a…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 