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Retired after 49 yrs in my high school English classroom. Intrigued by words, birds, animals, puzzles, plants, people. Proud elder, Osage Nation. Proud ๐ต, OK
โI've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.โ Maya Angelou 33 years ago, a group of high school students and mentors became a community. We shared, laughed, created, and learned.
Guess who was chosen to receive 2 copies of the new GMA Book Club choice for June? The Victorian Little Free Library! Thank you @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social , GMA Book Club, and Annabel Monaghan. Available nowโฆ www.goodmorningamerica.com/amp/culture/...
Magical creature whose fashion sense rivals any runway modelโฆ
Bittersweet moment: after participating in decades of Charles Page High School Commencement Ceremonies, tonight will mark my first time sitting in the audience as a spectator to celebrate my last grandchild walking across the stage as a 2026 CPHS graduate. Congratulations, Kirstyn Baker! Love you!
Someone left this exquisite handmade pine cone flower in the ground by my Victorian Little Free Library. The pic doesnโt do it justiceโฆwhat a wonderful surprise! ๐ฎ
How, who, and why: NPR flips its famous letters to defend the right to be curious www.npr.org/2026/03/02/g...
How, who, and why: NPR flips its famous letters to defend the right to be curious
NPR is standing up for the public's right to ask hard questions in a national campaign dubbed "For your right to be curious." At NPR's headquarters, on billboards in New York City, Chicago, and Washin...
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As a hs senior,I played Richard Harrisโs album,A Tramp Shining, daily. My favorite song:โMac Arthur Park.โRecently,Becky Painter posted about the magic of Donna Summerโs version,reminding me of my 1968 obsession.
My granddaughter Kirstyn right before walking into her Senior year at Charles Page High School. I wish her moments of inspiration and challengeโฆand memories to cherish!
Never doubt there's magic to be found: on my morning walk, accompanied only by the audiobook of Niall Williams' beautiful History of the Rain, I was overjoyed to see a Mimosa tree in full bloom. I spottIed one stunning swallowtail. And then looked up to a sight I'd never seen before. Just. Look. Up.
My LFL, the first in the Sand Springs/Tulsa area, was originally chartered 2013. My son Jeff decided to take on the challenge of building me a new one. As a retired high school English teacher and an avid reader since childhood, I'm overjoyed to again share books with my community. #LFLweek
Thank you for these wordsโฆa shimmer in the darkness. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86NrgQm/
For my Teachers: The saints I didnโt Deserve. #defiancetildeath #teachers #educators #fyp #politics #economics #democracy #bannedbooks #democracy
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โโฆcomprehension of literature, on which the study of English is based, is rooted in the pleasure of reading. Sometimesโฆa beam of light falls on a room of students collectively leaning into a story, with only scuffing sounds of pagesโฆas though all our heartbeats have slowed.โ
Way too many quotes from the French Revolution seemed to apply to our current situation.
โIn fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws โ he would make a Trump.โ londondaily.com/british-writ...
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump Iโve Read - London Daily
โWhy do some British people not like Donald Trump?โ Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
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And rolling my eyes for an added calorie burnerโฆ
Thank you Layli Long Soldier: "I am inclined to call this act by the Dakota warriors a poem. Thereโs irony in their poem. There was no text. โRealโ poems do not โreallyโ require words." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161866...
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If this is the first time youโve heard of it, you might wonder, โWhat is the Dakota 38?โ The Dakota 38 refers to thirtyยญ eight Dakota men who were executed by hanging, under orders from President Abra...
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Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social ยท 2y agoโ ๏ธWOKE CONTENTโ ๏ธ ๐งตOn Decemberย 26,ย 1862, folยญlowยญing the U.S.-Dakota War ofย 1862, the fedยญerยญal govยญernยญment hangedย 38ย memยญbers of the Dakota tribe. It was the largest mass exeยญcuยญtion in U.S.ย history.ย (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy www.nativenewsonline.net/currents/thi...
While weโre banning booksโฆ Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but donโt forget your literature. Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.
Keeping my sanity one puzzle piece, one novel page, and one coloring book picture at a time. Therapy.
I needed to reread this email today. Many teachers will see themselves reflected in Gwydion's words, so I thought I'd share. Teaching matters.
Poor, misinformed, delusional Ryan Walters. I had a Bible in my classroom for anyone who wanted to use it: for literary references, for spiritual content, whatever.
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