For a quick lesson on Sappho and lyric poetry, I asked my World Literature (third year high school) students to continue writing what may have been lost in the fragments of Sappho’s poetry. I chose four fragments for them to choose from, and from them my students created their own poems. Below are some of… Continue reading This week’s lesson: The fragments of Sappho, “completed”
In the past few weeks, my English classes and I had been doing something I’m extremely proud of – we mounted their original dramatic pieces during our One-Act Play Festival last November 12 and 13. This was the second year our seniors did this, but our venue this year was bigger: our school theatre has… Continue reading A one-act play fest for high school
It’s our sem break, so I’m using the free time to read and catch up on those blog posts I haven’t gotten around to write. It’s been a strange week since I received news that I’m to travel in the next three months quite a lot more than I’d expected. Also, one of my students… Continue reading Fashion Fridays for Teachers #3
Part of being a teacher these days, I think, is transcending the stereotype: being less like the teacher with frizzy hair, uncoordinated makeup and chipped nail polish, and being more like the one that faces each stressful day with grace and poise. Well, I’m sure we lose our poise at some point in the classroom,… Continue reading Fashion Fridays for Teachers #2
I have a few role models when it comes to teaching in basic education. I remember a teacher, Ms. Pramoso, who made me understand metaphors and poetry when she taught Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 to my third year high school class. She was probably the only one who wrote lengthy comments on my essays. I felt… Continue reading The Things My Teachers Did
I’m going to do something I’m not used to doing, ever, and that is to fashion-blog. This is done mostly for posterity’s sake, but if you think it can help you rethink your teacher-clothes, then that’s awesome! See, my teaching partner Edison and I like our semi-formal Fridays so much that during our coffee break… Continue reading Fashion Fridays for Teachers
How to Date a Teacher Some pro tips from a teacher who is dating a teacher. If you’re a student, especially of this teacher, stop reading right now and move on to better things, i.e. guys your age. There are laws governing teacher-student relationships. Seriously, stay away and forget it. If you’re of age and dating… Continue reading How to Date a Teacher
We Should Talk about This Problem Hafiz There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Beside your soft earthen mounds, And I often sing. But still, my dear, You do not come out. I have fallen… Continue reading Poetry Wednesdays: Hafiz, “We Should Talk About This Problem”
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