Pomegranate beginnings

This is just a quick post to tell you about what I'm doing in my classes today. Mostly because I love this kind of review--it's very...

I've been writing some heavy (read: long) posts lately, so I thought I'd do something light, describing a three-day sequence of acti...

Myself, Miriam, and Bob during our presentation. Thanks to Jon Valentine for taking this picture! This year I was very excited at the ...

I am 27 years old and have never missed an election. I consider the "right" to vote a responsibility and it is one that I take ver...

One of the things that can quickly weigh me and my kids down and easily puts us into a rut from which we might never return is vocabulary a...

Vocabulary is one of the main reasons I left the textbook behind. I have been frustrated both by the size of vocabulary lists in textbooks a...

This post is a follow up to my post on my students' first real responses to untextbooking. In this post, I want to talk about an activi...