Early twitter adopter trying to keep it fun.
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1 Mar 2021
While a riot rages, I walk down the street muttering--mostly listing to myself things that give me joy. I am aware of the violence but try to ignore it. Sometimes a passerby overhears me and we share a smile. Then I continue through the chaos.
This is Twitter.
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8 Jul 2023
Drove by a fire station and there were firemen in the parking lot. So many mustaches.
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6 Jul 2023
Fact: you never realize how disgustingly dirty your fridge is until you empty it.
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15 Jun 2023
Notes like this crack me up. Every couple years I get tagged because someone is upset with Sheehy Auto. Guess I'm glad I don't sell cars.
14 Jun 2023
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14 Jun 2023
Eight months after releasing two new books, it is clear Cormac McCarthy is no longer one of the greatest living writers in America.
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2 Jun 2023
First line of student's essay:
"All my life I've wondered the same thing: if I get bitten by an animal, do I gain the powers of said animal?"
I imagine I'd enjoy teaching college students, but I don't see how I'd enjoy them more than high school students.
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2 Jun 2023
I had an exchange student from France this year and one thing that surprised her most about America was how we used the computer for everything in school. She's looking forward to writing by hand again when she returns to France!
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2 Jun 2023
Here's the first way I'm accommodating my grading practices to the age of A.I. generated text: I am assigning failing grades to papers that don't truly do what I asked in the assignment. If it sounds smart but is off target, it's highly likely it's A.I.
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2 Jun 2023
I used to be gracious toward students with "smart but off" essays, because I was sure it was an honest mistake made by a person.
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2 Jun 2023
Today is the last day of school for me this year.
Thus ends my teaching on the block schedule (90-minute periods). It has been a good 18-year run, and I am convinced I am a better teacher for learning to teach in "the block."
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1 Jun 2023
I'm going to give away the secret to any good I do as a writing teacher in the second half of this tweet:
I believe my students are interesting. Which means their writing can be interesting too.
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1 Jun 2023
When I ask students to submit a revised version of an essay, I open up the old version on one screen and the new one on another. Then I scan the ends of the paragraphs--if the last word lines up with the line above it the same in both copies, why bother reading the new version?
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30 May 2023
I highly recommend this essay, about the AP Eng. lang exam:
"I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that this exam is indeed an accurate reflection of your college fate in that it was unreasonably expensive and completely useless for about half the students who take it."
30 May 2023
Junior Corey Sehr writes a note of commiseration to his fellow AP test takers:
chspineneedle.com/2023/05/30…
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30 May 2023
I do not understand anyone who does not understand how the Celtics managed to lose Game 7 after coming back from 0-3. They were in fact the team that managed to go down 0-3, were they not?
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30 May 2023
Here's how it works with the Miami Heat: They beat you and you are ashamed and in your shame you feel a need to act, so you fire your head coach. Joe Mazzulla, you in trouble.
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30 May 2023
David's shocked because he apparently hasn't watched the Celtics much. This team is anxiety-inducing 100% of the time.
30 May 2023
I'm shocked. Celtics claw all the way back to play like *that* in Game 7?
Huge props to the Heat. Bouncing back after a Game 6 gut punch. Amazing.
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29 May 2023
While listening to the @CloseReadsPod try to extract value out of the Custom House introduction to the Scarlet Letter, I shouted from the bleachers, "It's the worst chapter in all of Literature-dom. Don't defend it!"
They didn't hear me.
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29 May 2023
Bought something online yesterday. I wonder if the Amazon house-elves work on Memorial Day and will ship it today?
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19 May 2023
Here's a thread different from any other I've read lately. Leave it to a poet to not only notice strange juxtapositions but to live them out.
18 May 2023
Shoutout to you all from the tiny bird buddies currently occupying the laundry-room shelf above the washing machine.
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18 May 2023
One thing I have always found strange about teaching where I do is how I learn about my salary changes in the newspaper. You'd think someone would want to bear the good news when we get a raise, but I guess not. Turns out I'm getting one, though! rapidcityjournal.com/news/ra…
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