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Lesson Plan Friday: Independent Reading Categories
It's Friday, and I'm doing course prep, so it's time to practice productive procrastination and bring back Lesson Plan Friday (LPF). Remember how I made a graphic for it and...
It’s Monday and I’ve Been Reading Memoirs Written by Comedians #IMWAYR
Welp, it's July and I haven't made a single book post all year. Instead of bombarding you with the many, many books I've read (34 so far), I'm just going to hit the highlights,...
It’s mah birthday! #SOL26
...birthday week, more like. My actual birthday is on Friday. I wasn't going to post this week but then I had two conversations over the past couple of weeks that made me give...
13 Random Things: End of Semester Edition #SOL26
Since it's been a minute since my last update post, a random things list: 1. Between the fact that I didn't get my finalized schedule until two days before the beginning of the...
Timeline: Relapse & Decline
My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the...
Timeline: Diagnosis #SOL26
My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the...
Good Teaching Day #SOL26
I had a very good teaching day yesterday. First, it started with this gem I received from a student: As we are more than halfway into the class, I would like to tell you that I...
You Take the Good, You Take the Bad , You Take Them Both and There you Have…#SOL26
Today is the last day of the Slice of Life challenge, and I obviously did not post every day of the challenge. In fact, my last post was twenty-one days (three weeks!) ago....
More Birthday Fun #SOL26
And the week of birthdays continue! Today is my friend's Sam's birthday, and she texted me this morning to ask if I still wanted to go to dinner to which I, of course, said yes....