Graduated in the late 90s. Young people today will never be allowed to try something new or weird just to figure out who they are; someone is always watching, streaming, or recording. No freedom to be cringy and goofy. You have to be “on” all the time. No evidence exists of my…
Yes, David Pittareli. The only reason you think it sounds wrong is because someone you could not identify if your life depended on it determined hundreds of years ago that the way you speak is right and the way they speak is not.
Language is fluid. Drop this teacher in 14th century England (pre great vowel shift) and let’s see if she is regarded as speaking “properly”. Where I teach, 90% of my students are people of color. I am
white. Having my students write in their natural AAVE allows for such rich and…
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. How that man managed to make tuberculosis sexy, is absolutely beyond me. But somehow he did it. Combine that with the nuance and fatalistic attitude and you have an amazing, iconic performance
Bob Gunton as Warden Norton and Clancy Brown as Hadley in, “The Shawshank Redemption.” Smug, megalomaniacal, and casual in their destruction of people. Perfect casting.
I never refer students for discipline. I teach English in a low income area. Most of my kids were never taught how to process anger, grief, or anxiety. So many teachers expect their students to behave as if they have nothing going on outside of the
classroom. Students are human,…
Seriously?! WTF is “Float”????? It’s the first time I ever saw my own feelings as parent with two autistic boys (frustration, fear, adoration, and acceptance) on film. Such a simple and powerful short that tells the story of imperfect, yet absolute, love.
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