#class is boring sometimes

[menacarychamber]

Class doodles!

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Robin: I’m afraid ghost cats don’t show up either, buddy…

[hellsitegenetics]

this blog is fucking amazing. absolutely love it man. this is the most incredible gimmick blog i've ever seen i think. like holy shit. this fucking rocks dude. so many neat critters and so many. tumbler posts. fuck yeah. it's so neat to me that this is an idea someone had. and like you're just doing this huh. neat as fuck.

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[beastlyidiocy]

•_• Thinking about him again

[reminiscentrainclouds]

They infect my art history notes once more.

[dreamerdrop]

... So... Adigeon Prime is likely outside of Federation Space, or at least does black market deals. The Bashirs obtained falsified documents when they returned to Earth as well.

The Federation is repeatedly represented as being beyond money, which is demonstrated a few times to cause problems when Federation citizens want to do things which require money outside the Federation.

Black market risky procedures, covert transport to and from, falsified records... Those have to be expensive, and none of them would possibly be covered by the Federation, so...

Where and how did the Bashirs acquire the means for that, anyway?

[3liza]

me after narrowly avoiding another Tumblr thread where 60% of this website claims to have <1% incidence neurological phenomena because theyve never thought about what if the blue *i* see isn't the same color as the blue *you* see, man

[ignatiusteto]

i think sacred music in the kryn dynasty would be very cyclical and repetitive in form to symbolize the idea that life is a continuous thing (at least those who are consecuted right right) and is a cycle across lifetimes and yeah

[wishchip106]

i can feel a wave of depression building up rn ☹️😧

gonna read a bunch of cherik fics to settle it down before it gets too bad

[justsomerandohere]

I drew Claus in my history notes today when I was supposed to be studying

[manasurge]

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[swampybogg]

☠️🥀

[nyxypoo]

good night everyone <3 (i want biker!endo to bend me over his motorcycle while i wear his helmet.)

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one teach a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

[distance-does-not-matter]

girls will sometimes fear they’re in the wrong field as if they don’t buzz with excitement at the chance to help someone find something and love so much of what they do

[svnflowermoon]

why can i literally not function at school like i swear i'm trying i just can't focus????