Life and Stuff

This quarter, we are doing the big activism-themed nonfiction unit. With Fast Food Nation as our foundation text, I am beginning to guide my students out of themselves, and (hopefully) into a life of making their world a better one. I’ve added to the unit this year, by requiring all students to perform five to […]

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Hey! Missed you guys!
Life in the Den has been muy fabuloso. My knee is better, so I’m running again (very slowly, on very flat surfaces, behind the short school bus for joggers.) Autumn this year is particularly beautiful, if unseasonably hot and dry. Thanks to humanity and our resulting environmental havoc, highs have been […]

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As my kids complete their 2 and 1/2 hour state benchmark tests, I should probably be calculating grades or doing something teachery. Meh. I’m going to sit and enjoy the silence, and the smell of my classroom coffeemaker brewing.
You think I’m kidding about that. Think again. While many of my students like the perfume I […]

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Verge Limbo gots himself a blog. Esoteric creative types welcome. Bring coffee. Leave your colored bracelets and bird flu at home.

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