Summer vacation never gets old. Never. Even after nearly 20 years of teaching, I feel a wave of joy as the end of the school year approaches. And then one year, they changed the school calendar so the school year started two weeks sooner than normal. I felt like those kids in “All Summer in […]
“There Will Come Soft Rains” Lesson Plans: Setting and Plot
January 25, 2018 By
In the classroom the teacher voice sang, “Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!” as if it were afraid nobody would. The classroom lay sleeping, the result of boring lesson plans. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. “Seven-nine, answer question time, seven-nine!” In […]