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The Myth of Fingerprints: You Are What You Read
I have just completed the short story, The Bus Ride by Sahar Sabati. It is a fairly straightforward narrative about a nurse who gets off work early and finds herself (the assumption here is that the nurse is female) on … Continue reading
Posted in Essays: Life in These Hinterlands, Teaching, Writing
Tagged fifth grad reading, reading, Sabati, The Bus Ride, young girl
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Searching for Howard Beale: The Fall of Our Discontent
*Picket lines and picket signs Don’t punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what’s going on What’s going on Ya, what’s going on Wall Street: a neighborhood that handles the finances of those elusive job … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Review & response, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged champagne, college, Egypt, Fay Dunaway, gates, Greed, horizons, Howard Beale, keys, mad as hell, Network the movie, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, protests, standoff, Wall Street, zucotti park
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A Diary of Change: September 12, 2001
I have a picture of the Twin Towers – they stand tall and strong in the background – behind a group of frolicking high schoolers headed for the Statue of Liberty on the ferry out of New Jersey. I looked … Continue reading
Posted in Essays: Life in These Hinterlands, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, children and 9/11, murderous planes, New York City, NYC, Twin Towers
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Classroom Confidential:
On the playgrounds of the future Children will laugh and sing And we’ll cross the bridge to real peace Where the bells of sanity’ll ring Until then we shall play the game Which will all add up to naught “It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged bootstraps, Classroom, congress, educaiton, school district, teachers lament, testing
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