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Catching Up
So. This Wednesday the faculty at the high school where I teach have been summoned to a meeting where our long-winded superintendent and our technology dictator will “explain” to us the importance of putting our lesson plans into the program … Continue reading
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Tagged halloween, horror, publishing, school administrators are idiots, teaching, writing
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A few reviews and such
In an effort to get my "grade level" seniors to actually read a book, I’m breaking the classes into four groups of four to five kids and assigning each group a different novel. The novels are The Hobbit, Nineteen Eighty-four, … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony hopkins, jodi picoult, john steinbeck, teaching, terry c. johnston, the rite, wallace stegner
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Literature of Hope
What is the worst thing you can make a 9th grader read? I would argue that it is William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This isn’t a knock on the Bard, or his play that has remained popular for hundreds of … Continue reading
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Tagged bloomsbury, carrie jones, english, literature, teaching, writing, young adult
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End of year; return of the wolf
Here we are on the butt end of 2010. What a strange year it’s been! After 25 years of writing I finally got a big ol’ check for a book, and yet didn’t have a book published for the first … Continue reading
End of the year; return of the wolf
Here we are on the butt end of 2010. What a strange year it’s been! After 25 years of writing I finally got a big ol’ check for a book, and yet didn’t have a book published for the first … Continue reading
Back in the academic groove
School started last week. In some ways it doesn’t really feel like it yet. I mean, there are those two days that are kind of like practice. This week, kids will be fixing their schedules, transferring from one class to … Continue reading
Back in the academic groove
School started last week. In some ways it doesn’t really feel like it yet. I mean, there are those two days that are kind of like practice. This week, kids will be fixing their schedules, transferring from one class to … Continue reading
Summer, where are you going?
Well, it was time to report back to work last week. Not just the as-needed excursions I’d been making off and on all summer, but back to school for real. Students return this coming Thursday. I have a pretty sweet … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced placement, back to school, carrie jones, horror, teaching, werewolf, werewolves, writing
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Summer, where are you going?
Well, it was time to report back to work last week. Not just the as-needed excursions I’d been making off and on all summer, but back to school for real. Students return this coming Thursday. I have a pretty sweet … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced placement, back to school, carrie jones, horror, teaching, werewolf, werewolves, writing
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Career
When I started writing (and wanting to publish) about 25 years ago I was stuck in a job I didn’t like and saw writing as a way to get away from having an asshole for a boss, not have to … Continue reading
