While waiting for the cafeteria tables to be set up at Bonner for an English middle and high school scaffolding meeting just now, I spied this awesome mural on the commons wall. I’ve taught several of these student artists in the last couple of years, and one is in my class right now.
An interesting interview with a self-appointed “techno-realist.”
“To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”- H. L. Mencken
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought —that is to be educated.”
~Edith Hamilton
From the Trenches: A Lesson Plan – To Kill a Mockingbird
Six project options to serve as final assessment for novel study. Focuses especially on Civil Rights Movement, prejudice, and legal system.
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Just wow. Especially the part about “teachers vs. lawyers” and the comparisons of credentials lost.
Via: OnlineEducation.net