Monthly Archives: April 2008

Amen of the day…goes to Jose

with these words: You are the strongest lesson planned for me I try to remember this each time I am challenged by relationship, in class and out. I love how Jose strung the words together. Read them in their full context here: Thoughts Travel at Light Speed and scroll way down…way down, baby. Technorati Tags: [...]

Can anyone say…TIRED?

(image from: http://www.signaturebooks.com) The other morning a colleague pointed out that we have something like 33 more days of teaching. Those are going to be some long days. I am a tired teacher. And this is the worst time of year to be tired! Lately we have had some glorious days of 20+ degrees (that’s [...]

History, Oh History…

At the bottom of this post is a link to a series of question and study sheets, including some sample essay questions, for the Secondary 4 History of Quebec and Canada course in the province of Quebec. I’ve only uploaded the questions and study sheets for module 4 so far. The rest should be up [...]

Graffiti, Skate Shops, Burgers…

Yup, that’s basically what we did today. It was another of our travel days, and this time we took the metro to Berri-UQAM Metro station and went for a bit of a walk around the area. (image from http://www.crimt.org/Images_shared/Images/Metro_UQAM.gif) The boys spotted Underworld Skate shop right away so in we went… After that we went [...]