Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the thirty-fourth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! (Last Week, Kevin took the reins. Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
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That carrot is huge

So, that carrot I was talking about…it’s this: If you finish that essay by the end of the day, or if you bring it in, complete, at the beginning of class on Monday, I will let you erase one grade from my gradebook.
For many of my students, this is a great opportunity — they [...]

Sorry kids, I just made this too difficult. Let’s fix that.

It happens every once in a while — that monster you spring on the classroom is more frightening than you expected it to be. You planned on turning that monster into a cute, cuddly stuffed animal, and instead you accidentally added another set of fangs, a tail made of glass shards, and chainsaws for [...]

Two things

First: I had my yearly evaluation the other day, and I thought it went poorly. Actually, I thought it went well, but in my previous evaluation with the same evaluator I found that I was lacking in many areas — especially classroom management. This is nothing new. I’ve had problems with classroom [...]

Light speed — NOW

I made an error in my planning. While I think the Caste System assignment was good and smart, and that the students produced some fantastic materials (both written and visual), I did it without thinking about the upcoming paper on the elements of literature.
Every year we teachers have the students write to a common [...]

Worn Out Workshop — worries and wonders.

These past two weeks have definitely kept me busy, and I owe that to my favorite (and yet, least favorite) class activity — the workshop. The workshop is meant to keep the kids busy, keep them working, keep them learning new materials, and to get them to turn out a quality product on a [...]

Beer Me(me)!

My last post gained the comment:
Beer was invented for teachers :)
And I agree. (Just for fun) If there are any brewers out there, I’d like to see the following beers (or recipes for them):

IEP IPA
Attendance Ale
Lesson Plan Lambic
Fire Drill Amber
P.E. Porter
“Can I Go to the Bathroom?” Pilsner
B+ Blonde
Guero White Ale
DoppelLocker
Mandate Imperial Stout

Anything you’d [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the thirty-second installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
Day in a Sentence can’t exist without you and your reflection on teaching. Please consider submitting your day in one [...]

The Caste System in School

As much as I complain about my students, they really surprise me, and today we took that Marxism discussion even further as we compared the characters in three textx by talking about how their class levels influence their actions.
The first story is Born Worker, by Gary Soto, where we meet young Jose and his cousin [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the thirty-first installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
I don’t have much time this week to do more than post each teacher’s sentence. Please take the time to visit [...]