I love great movie speeches. Don’t you? Here are maybe my four top movie speeches of all time–as I remember them. Though you may have to forgive me. The seventh graders down the hall started dissecting things this week. I may be a little foggy on exact wording for a few of these.
Monthly Archive: February 2007
Feb
27
What to do about those pesky boxelder bugs
I’m wondering if anyone else out there has noticed anything suspicious about the bugs around their house lately. The word “bug” is a scientific term biologists use to combine two species: The Family of Animals That You Can Kill With A Rolled Up Magazine, and The Family Of Animals That Are Too Quick For That. …
Feb
26
It’s 15 Degrees, The Furnace is Broken—It’s Go Time!
“Something’s wrong.” I’m not a high stakes gambler. I’ve never made or lost millions in business. Never fought in a foreign war (hell, never even been in a fist fight). I’m not a superstar anything. Don’t drive fast cars, drink, mess around with either women or drugs. So how do I know I’m alive? I’ll …
Feb
26
Teacher Tools: Visual Literacy, Part 2: Visuwords
Let’s face it, some people think better in pictures. They think with their eyes. For the most part, I am not one of them. But I still think visual literacy is pretty cool. I wrote a longer post on this topic and offered up a couple of tools here.
Feb
26
Teacher Tools: Suddenly Grammar is Fun? C’mon. No Way.
Way. Thanks to Mrs. Chili, a junior college English teacher who, interestingly, seems to have the same sorts of challenges that I have as an 8th grade teacher. Talk about “things that make you go hmmm. . . ” Anyway, she shares this cool web site, where you can spend hours playing language related games, …
Feb
21
Ask Peter Answers Peters Answers: Evil Spirit or Scary Prank?
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