I’m warring against the year-end temptation to moan and groan about school. You would forgive me if I were to tell you I’m tired, wouldn’t you? But I refuse to allow myself to quit too soon emotionally, and it’s because I remember something wonderful happens around May of every year. In the last month of school, there is always an extraordinary… Read More
Your Hard Work Will Be Rewarded
I’m tempted to give you my husband’s cell phone number, so you can verify that I am not lying when I tell you that every morning and night of my first year of teaching I said, and I quote, “I cannot do this.” Yesterday, after I covered the computer monitor with an old, pink pillowcase and gave the room one… Read More
For Those Who Want What Is Pleasant
There’s a whole bag of Snickers in my drawer, for when you all finish these verb folders, I said. Bribery is awesome. It appears they are going to die when I ask them to write the conjugations of 50 verbs in four tenses. One student has the look of a man about to cross the Sahara. But they don’t know that… Read More