Teaching Prufrock
Heliogue expressed that teaching T.S. Eliot would incite head explosions if taught in his own high school. But the school I’m observing is, as I replied, an anomaly of sorts. The school is quite multicultural by Indiana standards and in a very affluent part of town. Students are primarily children of professors and executives. The [...]
...read moreMid-Terms, Schools, and Illnesses
Mid-Terms It’s time for mid-terms, which means it is also time for the obligatory scholastic disillusionment post. Tonight I practice my ASL handshape story, a five minute story told through the use of body language and next to no actual signs, and study for the Shakespeare mid-term for which I am wholly unexcited. I can’t [...]
...read moreA Poem For a Patriotic Friday
Praise be to God who pities wankers and has mercy on miserable bastards. Praise be to God who pours his blessing on reactionary warheads and racists. Krista has the rest.
...read morePep Talk
Someone remind me why my college education sould remain a top priority. No, really. Open thread.
...read moreWhat I’ve Been Reading Since I Haven’t Been Writing
Now featuring fruits and vegetables! And mustard! Feminism: • Considerable pissing matches criticizing the “nice” guy/jerk binary between three notable feminist bloggers and an MRA. See Hugo Schwyzer (the instigator of criticism), Amanda, and Kameron Hurley. • I rediscovered this old post at Rad Geek, Why Libertarians Need Feminism. Great read. • Also at Rad [...]
...read moreFYI: Blogging Elsewhere
Although I haven’t been blogging here, I have been blogging required journal entries for class. Come and see me – it’s lonely over there.
...read moreTo Read: “Will in the World”
Is it summer yet? The Shakespeare class is going well enough — or would be if the prof hadn’t agreed to the 7:30am class time, or didn’t turn out the lights and play quiet, wordy movies of Shakespearean plays, or if that person behind me didn’t lay a stank morning fart every day as though [...]
...read moreKnitting, Beans, Ed Blog and Summers
I made a lengthy post on my ed blog in response to a dissenting commenter on the Summers controversy. In other news, I have a substitute job this Wednesday working with two little ones in a special needs classroom as a para-professional. One is sight-impaired and the other is hearing-impaired. I hope that the two [...]
...read moreNew Ed Blog
Required to keep a running journal for an education class this semester, I have decided to set up another blog. Topics covered include our class readings and meetings, and later on in the semester, my final formal educational experience in the classroom before student teaching. I may also cover some experiences substitute teaching, as I [...]
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