Tag: post-class reflection

  • July 9, 2010
    Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th grade) at the…

  • June 1, 2010
    Last Wednesday, there was a shoot-out at our site. A few coworkers, kids, and I had entered the center. I…

  • May 16, 2010
    This month marks the first anniversary of the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war. On 2009 May 17-18, depending…

  • May 7, 2010
    I’ve been thinking about the question that I brought up in class on Monday, about the impact of fiction versus…

  • May 6, 2010
    I’m a big fan of thinking exercises: short activities that model (in familiar forms) the kinds of thinking students need…

  • March 20, 2010
    So I had my first-year writing literature classes read excerpts from Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red. And my students had…

  • May 17, 2009
    "We are like the dust of history being blown away."Him, When Broken Glass Floats, p. 330 When I start thinking about war or…