Entries Tagged as 'Teaching'
Children See
December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Around the house · Children · Learning · Parenting · Teaching
Yeah but . . . what about aliens?
September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Every day I have students work on their editing skills by finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph. Today one of the sentences was:
In September 1846, a german astronomer Johann Galle became the first to observe the planet Neptune.
One of my students wanted to make this change:
In September 1846, a german astronomer Johann Galle [...]
Tags: Fun Stuff · Humor · Teaching
Somebody please just like, shoot me.
March 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments
I’m correcting quizzes for Treasure Island, the novel we are currently reading. Each question requires an essay/short answer response.
The first question is: Describe Treasure Island, including the hills and vegetation.
This is one of the responses:
“Treasure Island has like trees and like different types and there is like a stream in [...]
Tags: Teaching