Leading up to this year’s conflict project, the students studied conflict through reading Suzanne Collins’s book, The Hunger Games. No doubt you’ve heard of it by now. Students from all three class periods who owned the book temporarily donated their copy to the classroom, so that each period had enough copies […] http://dlvr.it/1NSC71
I have read a bunch of bad books lately. Or just mediocre ones. I’m not too excited about any of the four I’m currently reading, either. I checked my recent reviews, and of the last 17 books I’ve read, I have only really been impressed by one. Steinbeck knows his stuff. But I already knew that. The book 18 books ago that impressed me was […] http://dlvr.it/1JjW68
This winter has been absolutely beautiful. According to the Fox 12 Weather Blog from late January, the long-range weather forecast for Portland is decidedly un-Portland-like: • Little to no rainfall is likely from this Wednesday afternoon through at l […] http://dlvr.it/1Jh3yt
Leading up to this year’s conflict project, the students were shown a variety of images, and asked to generate “non-Google-able” questions about the pictures. For example, for the picture of the space shuttle, a boring, Google-able question would be, “How much fuel does it take to get to the moon?” A much better, high-level question would be “What makes humans want to explore space?” […] http://dlvr.it/1JHwBm
Early Monday morning, two strong earthquakes awakened the Bay Area. At 5:33 am, a magnitude 3.5 quake, followed immediately by a magnitude 4.0 quake shook approximately 5.5 miles below the surface in El Cerrito, CA. Another mild aftershock was felt a half hour later […] http://dlvr.it/1Hhl86
Plugging his new book, Space Chronicles, Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and nearly made Jon want to beco […] http://dlvr.it/1HGHlr
I just started re-watching 21 Jump Street. You know how when you remember the 80s, it seems like the whole decade is a caricature of itself? Turns out, the 80s really were that ridiculous, and the early 90s weren’t much better. “Graffiti art is all the rage now, sir.” The thing that’s been getting me most about the unfortunate fashion choic […] http://dlvr.it/1FsLgP
This photograph was taken by Desto of Ser Verdadero. Both the photograph and the mural’s message deserve to be shared as often as possible. Muralist Salvador Jimenez created the work with a group of young artists, ages 16-21, as part of the […] http://dlvr.it/1FNfFV
…twice as big as it needs to be.I spent a bit of time this week sitting in on a few middle school classes with which I soon will be working. As I listened to them discuss complex topics of monumental importance, impressed all the while by their eloquence and compassion, I was reminded of a moment in that very classroom two years ago that blew me away (names have been changed).Each morni […] http://dlvr.it/1F4lyM
