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Teaching

Quality Teaching

April 14, 2010

Newsweek published this article in their March 15, 2010 issue, about the problems with education in America.  Their decision – it is the teachers.  The article was titled, “Why We Can’t Get Rid of Failing Teachers” by Evan Thomas and Pat Wingert. As I read this article and talked about it with other teachers at [...]

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Grandfather Nye

March 11, 2010

I was teaching my students a creative writing exercise where you try to visualize a person – what they look like, smell like, what they are wearing, and any memories.  I wrote about my mother’s father.  He is 96 years old. Grandfather Nye You are the silent statue Who stares out the front window Into [...]

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Things People Say

March 9, 2010

Today, a student said to me at the end of a poetry lesson where I made them identify every instance of end rhyme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, and alliteration in a rap song: “Thanks Lesli for making this fun today.” I just start laughing at him. “Why are you laughing?” me: “Oh, you’re being serious.” [...]

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Letters To Prison

February 26, 2010

Do you remember this post a while back letters from students.  If not, read it, because it will help you to understand this poem I wrote.  I also wrote this poem with my students, when I was teaching them how to do a 5 minute free write and then turn it into a poem.  (Once [...]

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Morning Commute

January 26, 2010

Today, my morning commute, which usually takes 25 minutes, took 1 hour and 20 minutes.  From the point of the mountain to Center Street in Orem I followed 6 snowplows. I only made it up to 20 mph.  It was so frustrating. Normally, my commute doesn’t really bother me because I get to think and [...]

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