the next time we complain about our building. 

While many people dream of buying a large tract of land on which to retire, high school teacher Matt Schlein saved enough money to purchase 260 acres of land and then built a school.  Sort of.  Check out the story at NPR’s website.

Check out this blog (Tuna’s Aquarium) created by a high school senior taking AP Lang.  I came across it while reading teacher-y stuff on Clay Burell’s blog Beyond-School.org.  I don’t know how may of you blog (or if you do, if you would want to share that information with all of us), but I’m impressed by this student’s style.  Enjoy.  As always, comment for the good of all, and post links if you want to share.

I’m not sure why it has taken me this long to come up with this. I’ve added a section in the right column entitled “What We’re Up To.” It is a brief synopsis of what you should be working on for the next class. I will provide the details of all assignments in posts as usual, but this is a good filter for what you need to have done before we meet again.

Here is the candidate quiz.  A better one than the previous, I think.

Your homework for this weekend is to write a fable.  It must have a moral and it must have some original elements to it.   If you want to parody a fable already written, or take the moral from one of Aesop’s, you may.