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    oh, I was looking in your blog. k...off to read it.
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    IP! I'm finally here, but I can't find Lines..?
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    okee dokee, bud.
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    I loaded up on history courses too and absolutely loved them. The best history courses I took were on Churchill & Roosevelt and Archives, both taught by Warren Kimball. And this other course on the history of human rights by Richard Falk. Maybe you've heard of them?? Real heavyweights in their respective fields. Falk was so cool he invited several of his classes at the end of the semester to his house. And Kimball met our class at a campus pub for a couple Guiness! The class discussions turned into wars about wars. Miss those days. Sigh.

    Yeah I tutored for the SAT, AP Language & Composition, and AP US History. I had nothing to do with the math section, obviously. I met students one-on-one between 1.5 and 2 hours per session and used my own materials ranging from full novels to test prep books, like the LSAT and old SAT exams. My emphasis was on critical thinking. The AP commercial prep books are awful. There is no way to "cheat the test" like Kaplan and Princeton Review have students believe, such as the horrible method of reading the first and last sentences of each paragraph and nothing between. I came up with a method for unpacking the reading comp passages that worked really well, too tedious to explain here. The students had to read the entire passage, no getting around it.

    That you're pushing off graduation, excellent! Defer costs and pay thru the nose later. The banks love you, the economy loves you. Besides, it's so darn American, don't you feel fuzzy in the belly?

    Oh try a little ice cream. Frozen yogurt, actually. And it has to be churned.

    Permanent freedom is a beautiful thing, IP. I'm still very interested in hearing what teaching is like when you're 2, 3, 4 years in. Keep me posted, hombre.
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    night. you really need a laptop! and yeah, now outside you see the waves in her eyes

    good stuff, I quite like the album.
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    http://http://www.progressivehouse.com/labels/friskyRecords/r/2188

    When I was googling, and trying to figure out what you meant, I came across this, and I really liked it. What do you think about it? I ended up downloading it. not usually my cuppa, but funny how a typo can lead you to crazy stuff on google.
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    sorry. I mean if I would have heard the synth first, I would have run away screaming.
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    except for this, if I would have heard that before anything else that he did, I would have never listened to more...so, there you go, it takes something you like to introduce you to things you wouldn't usually go for.
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    I gave it up not too long ago. For almost three years I managed to live off tutoring and enjoyed it much more than the public school classroom. Unlike traditional teaching, which mandates that you work all day and work after hours for free, tutors can potentially earn a full-time salary on part-time hours. I just felt it was time to move on, do something different.

    It's 5am. I'm eating some chocolate chip mint ice cream and I don't have to be at work today. Doing something different.

    How's your teaching certification going?
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    the funny thing is, is that I liked it, didn't even think to categorize it. once I like an artist, or poet, I trust them to tell me their story.
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a sonnet!

by Il Penseroso on 08-31-2008 at 02:14 AM
Unfathomed shape treading a misty trail,
bloodhound that makes no sound following souls,
with icicled hood, at each step, full sail,
the reaper stiffens victims, filling holes.
His scythe, winter’s slicing metallic vein,
rattles as it falls still limbs white with snow,
scattering the cold interwoven skein
from boughs rankled as their raw fibers show.
Grim advocate for what is seldom known,
that life's form is like a spiral seashell,

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My Philosophy of Teaching

by Il Penseroso on 04-07-2008 at 12:31 AM
an essay for my application to teacher ed.


My Philosophy of Teaching


As a secondary education English teacher, I would like to guide students to become motivated readers and writers who are capable of critical thought toward both ideas presented by others and those they hold themselves. An education in the literary arts provides students with essential skills to enrich both their everyday lives as individuals and their ability to perform in a competitive

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help with a lesson plan

by Il Penseroso on 03-18-2008 at 04:44 PM
I'm currently planning a lesson to do with 4th-6th graders as part of a practicum in my Education program at university. I was hoping to select a poem that is very descritive to read to the kids as they draw what they see through the words. My initial idea was to use Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn," but I've since decided that this will probably be too difficult a poem for 4th-6th graders (based on experience I've had with 'em).

I'm looking for something that won't be too easy,

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Bumblebees

by Il Penseroso on 03-09-2008 at 03:34 PM
Thick black floating orbs,
stretching in swift rotation
the garden routine,
to doze in petalled beauty
having their fill of nectar.

What delight to be
draggling in odorous bliss,
alike to the wind
in a wayfaring circuit
abreast a personal whim.

Do these creatures know
the envy their motion stirs,
or that their feeding
burdens my listless brow
with a penitent emotion?

So

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Shaded Reflection

by Il Penseroso on 03-01-2008 at 07:40 PM
Shaded Reflection

A semblance play of myself
this shadow sprung from the slanted sun,
the grey sidelong profile
stretched across the grassy stage,
leaning aside by leaden rays.

Eclipse of my shape that dims the ground,
accident of the angular beams
conformed by the orient sky,
an ornament of the earthen reply,
the dusky reflection that opens the void,
the double print impalpable.

Is this

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