The Unedited Adventures of a recently hired Middle School English Teacher. Finishing the year as a long-term sub and excited to start next year as a full-time teacher! Shout out to my wonderful fiance (a soon-to-be middle school science teacher), my dog, and my crazy cat. Couldn't do anything without my little family :)
Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans
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How To Combat Student Plagiarism
A great article with some great ideas. Here’s an excerpt:
Make Research Assignments about the process rather than the end product.
As teachers, when we assign a research project, we often focus on the end product: the research essay, presentation, etc. However, students (especially young students) do not automatically know how to conduct meaningful research. Our modern students are used to Googling answers. They have grown accustomed to information being readily available. However, as academics, we know that research isn’t a fast process. It’s slow and deliberate. As a teacher, I need to intentionally slow my students down during this exercise. I do this by breaking down a larger project into more manageable chunks and focusing on the process. Here are some techniques that have worked for me:
- Give students small practice assignments where they must read, summarize, and properly cite material.
- Show students what proper citation should look like. Many rely on resources like EasyBib orBibme to build a bibliography but do not understand what exactly is going into the finished product. Demonstrate to them what should be included in a citation and why. In other words, remove the “but EasyBib said this was right” excuse.
- Provide students several examples or case studies of material that they must distinguish as: properly summarized and cited, improperly cited, plagiarized, etc. Allow them to identify and explain the problems.
I’ll be teaching English at a middle school. I am going to meet with the principal next week to discuss more details. He wants a list of questions before we meet, so he can be ready to answer them. What types of questions should I ask?
1. Does the image show only part(s) of a sexualized person’s body?
BMW2. Does the image present a sexualized person as a stand-in for an object?
Four Loko3. Does the image show sexualized persons as interchangeable?
Mercedes Benz
4. Does the image affirm the idea of violating the bodily integrity of a sexualized person who can’t consent?
Duncan Quinn
5. Does the image suggest that sexual availability is the defining characteristic of the person?
American Apparel
6. Does the image show a sexualized person as a commodity that can be bought and sold?
Red Tape Shoes
Not sure if I’ve reblogged this before but it’s worth it if I have because so many people get this wrong.
so gross
An excellent list with examples to better understand sexual objectification.perfect. Use this the next time you think tom hiddlestone is being objectified.
Lunsford, in case you check my blog again, here is more info for you to read up on.
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I’m going to teach middle school English full-time in the fall! I was offered the job today and I accepted :) wow, what a big relief! I can finally quit my other job…which was checking EdJoin every 2 seconds. Ahhh yea! This will be my first “real” teaching job.
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As an English Language Arts instructor in both middle and high schools for the past ten years, I can tell you how big a problem this is. When I was working in Brooklyn, my fellow teachers and I were always tearing our hair out trying to find engaging novels where our students would see themselves reflected in the protagonists. It was hard and it’s become even harder today.
To read later.
h/t Reddit
Game of Loans - College Graduation
bahahaha for anyone graduating right now.
“Here’s some food for thought:
you are not beautiful just because you are ‘thin’ or ‘thick’ or ‘perfect’ by society’s standards.
You are beautiful when you *respect* other people’s bodies and begin to love your own!
So lets all start to love one another and make this world a little brighter!”
I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.
hyperbole is my favorite literary device i use it like 600 times a day
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I had grand ideas of getting a pile of grading done tonight.
My teacher bag has remained closed.
So, rather than dwelling over it, I’m going to be honest with myself and you: it’s going to remain closed tonight.
Done.
Yup, sounds about right.
This is a poorly scanned version of a final project I did for my Literature of the Beat Generation class. It is a collage-style travel book of Part 1 of On The Road by Jack Kerouac. This was actually a really fun project to do, I haven’t collaged in a while and I used to do it a lot. I meant to do more but ran out of time because I procrastinated so much, but I am happy with the end result.
This is super rad
Love collaging.
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I found this super helpful.
