I just met the new kid. He seems kind of sad. His mom’s got a new a boyfriend–which wasn’t so bad until out of the blue and for no reason he said, “It’s me or the kid toots. I don’t like the lad.” So now he’s the new kid. He lives with his dad.
Category Archive: Writing
Oct
28
Oct
26
No, grammar is not confusing . . .
Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class. Pretty straight forward, right? Well, most of the time. This was today’s unedited text: Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift …
Oct
19
The irony of The Right Thing
Every so often you get the opportunity to make a statement about who you really are–bone deep. Most of the time, very few people are watching. Most of the time, nobody cares. Often, (and ironically) however, making this statement still takes a measure of courage. These opportunities are like little nuggets of treasure, because they …
Oct
13
Facebook is Okay
Yael is one of those “friends” I’ve never actually met in real life, but we get along real well on line. Mostly, we share an interest in teaching and learning and writing. Anyway, this is probably the best Facebook reply I’ve ever seen and she said I could post it, so here goes: Yeah . …
Jan
26
Do Not Iron Clothes on Body
The title of this post is taken from actual packaging for a steam iron. Turns out that not only are there lots of silly warnings on tags, packages and signs around the world, but now there’s an actual organization whose mission it is to campaign against such “gobbledygook.” They call themselves the Plain English Campaign …
Jan
24
Word Clouds Are Cool
This is a word cloud I created of my last post, Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing. Scroll down for an explanation about how it works. What is going on here? What are you looking at? Basically you’re seeing a visual representation of my last post. The biggest words in the cloud are the words that …
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