Month: 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.

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 Can anyone say…TIRED?

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 History, Oh History…

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 Graffiti, Skate Shops, Burgers…