Teaching

Romeo and Juliet

December 4, 2009

Every year I teach at least one Shakespearean play.  My two favorites to teach are Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet.  For many reasons, we don’t read the original Shakespearean text.  We read a modern version of the text.  My favorite to use is the No Fear series.  I know that many people [...]

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Comic: Sarcasm

November 24, 2009

Here is another comic for you. I need to work on my BLOCK / COMIC handwriting and my spacial awareness.  But this is fun!

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Comic: Work Means Working Now

November 23, 2009

I read a blog called Inkygirl.com The writer draws a lot of comics having to do with writing.  I really like it.  So, I thought I would try my hand at a comic.  Her comics are simple and in black and white, most of the time.  So I drew a little comic about a conversation [...]

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Stop Motion Video

November 21, 2009

So, I teach a video class.  A few weeks ago I assigned the class to do a stop motion video.  I made one of my own using post-it notes.  It is silly, but here it is.  This isn’t really photography, but I did it using pictures, so I put it in this category. stop motion [...]

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The Dangers of Working in a High School

November 20, 2009

Teenage Drivers! This is one of our counselor’s cars.  He said that he has been hit 2 times.  My car has gotten keyed, as well.  I now understand why they have seperate lots for teachers and students.  Our school, however, is so small that we don’t have seperate lots.  Sigh! As a side note.  I [...]

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My Classroom

August 15, 2008

School starts on Monday for me. I am excited and also sad. Excited to be working again, and sad to be working again. (Confusing? Just a little). You could say that I am “conflicted” in my emotions. I realized that no one has ever seen my classroom and since I live here 8-10 hours a [...]

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Summer School Field Trip

June 13, 2008

Today, we went on a field trip for summer school. In general, the kids were extremely hyper and out of control. You would think that they had never been on a field trip. The first place we went to was Kennecott Copper Mine. I have always loved the copper mine. I loved looking at the [...]

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A few videos

November 8, 2007

So, I know I haven’t posted lately. I can’t say that I have really had much to say. But today I made two videos for my school using iMovie HD. I actually teach a video editing class, but I realized that I really like making videos. I still need to make the video from Europe. [...]

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Holy Suspensions!

October 2, 2007

So last week some of my students were involved in an incident called “Birthday Beatings.” What basically happens is that if it is your birthday you can agree to get a birthday beating. But there are rules to this practice. Each “beater” gets how ever many seconds you are old to beat you up. For [...]

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First Day of School

August 21, 2007

Today was the first day of school – actually teaching that is. All the class periods were shorter and at the end of the day we did skits and played relay games. The kids always love it and even remember it at the end of the year. I had a really good day teaching, but [...]

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Web Designing

June 21, 2007

I have been working on my school’s web site. They haven’t had one in a while. I am as far as I can get for now, because I have to wrap everything up because I am leaving on a jet plane in 4 days. I can’t wait to go on vacation! But, anyways, (focus Lesli) [...]

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Graduation

June 1, 2007

Yesterday was graduation at my school. It was a long day for me. We had to help set up and clean up, plus I technically did work yesterday even though I didn’t get anything done. I thought that graduation was going to be more emotional, but I think that the actual ceremony was rowdy. The [...]

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Last Day!

May 31, 2007

Yesterday was the last day of school for the kids. I can’t believe I made it through my first year of teaching, not to mention that I made through my first year teaching at a school for Youth in Custody. We give all of the graduate the book Oh the Places You’ll Go and sign [...]

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First Day

May 7, 2007

Today, I started my Masters Program. It is a bit of a long title, but I am getting my Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum and Instruction: Reading. Pretty long, huh? It is an online program through Grand Canyon University. I actually know a lot of people who have gotten their Masters there – even [...]

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Monday Morning

April 23, 2007

Monday mornings are always hard for me, but today was especially bad. Last week, Wednesday thru Friday, I had spring break. It was great! I stayed up later, slept in, and took naps. Then this morning I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I stayed in bed trying to fall [...]

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Beyond Summit Horizons

March 20, 2007

Art Meets Math and Science by Ryan Landvatter. View of Mount Timpanogus by Will Holdman. The above artpiece sits in our skylight. It is actually a rotating piece of art. We called it Beyond Summit Horizons and it was created for us by Andrew Smith, a local artist. My school recently acquired a lot of [...]

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