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    Things I love about being a teacher

    I actually got the comment that I have “insufficient references to Doctor Who, Sherlock, Monty Python, and Indiana Jones” on a reply form to my class. The last 15 minutes of class today was a tournament rock, paper, scissors style where they punished each other with dares like “stand in front of the entire class and say, ‘I am beautiful'” and “bow down to Ms. K and say ‘I am your girl. I will get A’s’.” I have never seen anyone as in to Rock Paper Scissors as this group of kids. I had a kid today say, “I like nerds and I like people, so I like this room…

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    General Insanity

    In no particular order, over the past four months I have: been working with students who are trying to get into college (I’ll talk about why that is important in a bit),  visited Fall River, started a new teaching job, gone on a few dates (one of which was particularly amazing), been visited by my aunt, uncle, and my first cousin from my dad’s side of the family, my cousins and great aunt on my dad’s side, and my first cousin from my mom’s side of the family, sprained my ankle and knee, spent time on the Santa Monica Pier, helped a friend plan her wedding, found out what my…

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    Writing and Reading in Many Forms

    Something I’m finding interesting is thinking about the many forms of reading and writing that I’m doing of late. I’m editing my own writing, blogging, lesson planning for the youth group I help run, and writing content for a company that represents soccer players. I’m reading two books, multiple blogs a day, the textbooks of the kids I tutor, Native American myths, emails, other people’s writing, txts, game information, electronic conversations in many different formats, profile pages (i.e. facebook and myspace), children’s books, subtitles, and Japanese conversations and Japanese children’s books. As a culture, we’re very information saturated. As a person, I’m over the top with my information saturation. As…