Is This Thing On? Why I disappeared, a book meme, and which general I was during the Civil War.
Hey guys...I swear, it seems like everytime I get blogging, something comes along and drives me away. While I've been gone I've:...Finished a graduate course with an A. The course ended while I was still engrossed in bronchitis (stress the gross).
...Finished my third and final attempt at getting National Boards. I think I'll get it, but I thought it the last two times. I'm keeping all of my thoughts to myself until the results come in.
...Been tasked with cooking up lesson utilizing the new Smart Board installed in my room. Not, it was put up so low that I couldn't walk under the projection boom without hitting my head. The projection was crooked as well. They've come back and raised and straightened it, though.
...spoken on the phone with a parent who said her son was getting in trouble for petty things...ie. talking during and disrupting class. When my principal heard this, she called her in for a conference where she was a complete angel. I wanted to puke.
Over at History is Elementary, EHT posted an interesting Book Meme that she got from Eoin Purcell's Blog, which I admittedly haven't visited yet. I have a hard enough time visiting my blogs as it is (Sorry everybody, even those of you who don't realize I visit). Anyway, here be the rules...
1. Pick up the nearest book
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people and acknowledge who tagged you
So, here we go..
1. Duma Key by Stephen King...My favorite writer. His most recent book. About a man who, after a mutilating accident, goes to the Florida Keys, specifically Duma Key, to get his life back together. But then, Duma's history has something to say.
2-4. "Part of Duma's development problem is simple overgrowth. The sea oats belong, but the rest of that shit has no business growing without irrigation. Somebody better investigate, that's what I think."
"My daughter and I went exploring one day..."
King uses a lot of foreshadowing in this one. It may not be more than usual as my memory of any book remains only with a plot summary, not with technique, but it seems that Duma Key has a lot of foreshadowing, which may be because one of the themes of the book is memory loss, so rather than Flashbacks, which I know he often uses for characterization, but with the memory loss theme, Flashbacks aren't as accessible...so Foreshadowing...Or I'm reading too much into it...Maybe si, maybe no.
Again, I wasn't tagged, but I swiped it from EHT at History is Elementary.
I tag: My wife Blue (whichever blog you want to put it on is fine, dear)
Mrs. Chili over at A Teacher's Education
My friend Amy (you haven't mentioned a blog, so I guess just post in my comments)
SaintSeester over at Saint Seester Says...
and Irrational over at Math Teacher's Notebook
Lastly, over at the American Presidents Blog, M posted a link to a quiz asking Which Civil War General Are You?
I got...
You scored as a U.S. Grant
One of the most misunderstood figures of the war, your campaign at Vicksburg was a work of military genius, but future generations will come to view you as a butcher who won by weight of numbers. Sorry 'bout that.
I'll take it...especially compared to the near miss I had with Sherman. I would not have been happy being named Sherman.......
EHT has another cool meme I'm going to do soon about privilege...I'll admit I'm not real thrilled about the tone of that word "privilege", but there are interesting questions there...
Oh, and before I forget...Soon I'll be revealing a forum my wife is helping me develop (which means I tell her what I'm looking for and she does it, cause she's computer savvy and I'm computer middlin'). It's focus is going to be on education and school, but I'll tell you more about it when it's up and running.
posted by Bodog @ 4:16 PM
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