Somehow, I escaped reading To Kill a Mockingbird in high school and read it for the first time on my own in college. Picking it up proved to be fortuitous; not only did I love the novel, but I’ve also taught To Kill a Mockingbird maybe ten times since that first read. Truthfully, it is […]
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And We’re Back
We’re back to school, that is, after a long, hard summer of RVs, fake Disney trips, and backyard snakes. Yeah, you heard me. After only one snake in three years of living here, we’ve now had two in a matter of three weeks. I think the second one was also non-poisonous, but as I’ve mentioned, […]
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Walking the Streets of Oxford
On that bright July morning in Oxford, England, I stood on Woodstock Road in my pajamas as the bus, loaded with my fellow college students, pulled away from campus. (For the record, I have not stood in public wearing pajamas since those madcap college days.) There they were, most of my associates in this Oxford […]
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Things High Schoolers Never Say
We’re studying the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank in seventh grade right now, and yesterday, we were discussing the inconveniences of hiding for your life beyond the whole obvious “you could die†thing. We talked about how Anne’s family and the Van Daans, who spent over two years hiding in some small […]
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Slaying New Dragons
We’re back in full school mode here, revolving our days around the tick of the academic clock. In my last post, I promised the details of my latest teaching venture, so here’s what’s going down for the current school year. After spending my entire professional teaching career teaching high school students, this year I’m splitting […]
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Lamenting the End of Summer Vacation
This may come as a surprise to those of you who live in areas where school doesn’t start until after Labor Day, but we are gearing up for the new school year here on the island. In summary, this bites. I am, after all, one who firmly believes that God put the idea of summer […]