Jim Burke is an English teacher, formerly of Burlingame, who likes to write about teaching English. He has a matrix of skills that English students should have mastered by the time they graduate, hands-on lessons on topics such as how he organizes his notebooks, and musings. Does anyone of our group know him personally? Here's his site.
The one blog I discovered randomly is called Erin O'Brien's Owner Manuel for Human Beings. She has 786 subscribers, one of them being me. She writes about her husband "the goat" and her child "the kid" and the new Mass. senator and what it's like to go to a transvestite bar in her sad little suburb of Cleveland. Sort of like Erma Bombeck, if you remember her. I don't think I would use it in the classroom, though.
http://erin-obrien.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Erin sounds a little odd to me. I wanted to tell you about the quilting blogs. The ones I found seem to be professionals showing their studios and some design walls, but they are cool because they show some step-by-step construction.
ReplyDeleteJane, I love Jim Burke's blog. He is currently teaching at Burlingame. I wonder how many other teacher blogs are out there? How about an uplifting "Daily Blog " for the weary teacher???
ReplyDeleteI found an "Ning" (I think it's an on-line blogging community) set-up by Jim Burke, and I checked out his blog site you posted (good job posting the link- I have not done that yet!). That man is so prolific and so ubiquitous; it's quite astonishing, really. I'm glad you found Erin's site, a fun one you can enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI think honors classes can have lots of fun. my older son learned more from his AP US history class when his teacher had them read the cartoon history of the US, than my younger son did in a more traditional AP class. Wouldn't it be fun to rewrite Romeo and Juliet?
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