Yesterday one of my chatty students was telling me about something that happened to her over the break. She said, “Mrs. Cordle! We were at Burlington Coat Factory and I found this pink and black plaid shirt and these pink Apple Bottom jeans and…” All of a sudden she was interrupted by the student in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Teaching’
July 15, 2009
What Are Our Kids Reading, Anyway?
During part of last year, I had my freshmen students completing bi-weekly book reports. Unfortunately most of them chose to either a.) not do the assignment or b.) pick some book from the library that was of no interest to them, simply to get the assignment done. However I did receive a couple of reports [...]
May 14, 2009
It’s Over (Almost)
In less than 24 hours I will have completed my first official year as a teacher. Right now I’m just feeling kind of crabby and ready for a nice, long break, but I know that tomorrow when I say goodbye to so many faces and definitely Saturday when I sit through Graduation I will be [...]
April 15, 2009
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Last week concluded our Romeo & Juliet unit in English I, so since this has been a short week due to a break, we have just spent the last few days watching several film versions of this Shakespeare classic. Viewing both the Baz Luhrmann and Franco Zeffirelli versions has brought back a horrible high school [...]
April 12, 2009
The No-Talent Kid: How We’ve Got to Keep It Real
Tonight I spent an enjoyable evening watching/supervising our school’s annual talent show. We had 15 acts and they all were really good. It’s nice to discover that we have so many talented students, however I have to honestly admit that I was surprised by this fact. In my experience, events like this draw people in [...]
March 24, 2009
A Pleasant Surprise
As you may or may not know, this is my first year teaching English and most definitely my first year teaching Freshmen English. When I decided I wanted to become an English teacher I said that 9th grade was as high as I wanted to go. Something about teaching middle school and freshmen appealed to [...]
