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Jun. 16th, 2007
More great lines from my classroom . . .
Jun. 16th, 2007 10:46 pmSo one of the projects I give every year is to interview three to five people (depending on the level of the class) who were alive during the Vietnam War.
This, of course, has gotten a little more difficult since I started doing it in the early 1980s, when there were at least a half-dozen colleagues at my school who had served in the war. Now, at a bigger school, we only have few.
Anyway, sometimes I will let the kids interview me. I am right on the cusp (I am 48. I was 16 when the ward ended).
Then I read the reports, and I remember why I don’t do it that often:
1. One kids said he would have preferred someone else “because everyone’s doing you.”
2. Another kid said, “Mr. Bill Toscano, one of the finest looking fellows in our school.”
3. But my favorite line was, “Unrelated to the war, Mr. Toscano’s favorite color is plaid.”
I live for this stuff.
This, of course, has gotten a little more difficult since I started doing it in the early 1980s, when there were at least a half-dozen colleagues at my school who had served in the war. Now, at a bigger school, we only have few.
Anyway, sometimes I will let the kids interview me. I am right on the cusp (I am 48. I was 16 when the ward ended).
Then I read the reports, and I remember why I don’t do it that often:
1. One kids said he would have preferred someone else “because everyone’s doing you.”
2. Another kid said, “Mr. Bill Toscano, one of the finest looking fellows in our school.”
3. But my favorite line was, “Unrelated to the war, Mr. Toscano’s favorite color is plaid.”
I live for this stuff.
Just some thoughts . . .
Jun. 16th, 2007 11:36 pm1. I am pleased to see the governor of Massachusetts taking such an active role in the Gay Marriage issue. I really believe he and Sal DiMasi made the difference. Though I did read some interesting stories about legislators changing their minds because of more acceptance of Gay Marriage.
One legislator in western Massachusetts said a little, old lady who had opposed it had come around because of her two nice, Gay, married neighbors.
Also, Bay Windows did a fantastic job of blogging the ConCon. I thought The Globe’s coverage was phenomenal (big splash on the front page and two full pages inside.
2. We each are responsible for the content in our own LiveJournals. If you don’t like something – say, zombies – that’s your issue. You don’t have to read us any more. Feel free to take me off your daily reading list if you don’t like what I am writing about. Commenting is fine. Whining is not.
3. If I post something in your LJ that bothers you, I have no problem with you deleting the post, denying me access or taking me off your friends list. It’s *your* LJ. On a related matter, attacking me in someone else’s LJ, not so cooll. [Clearly, I have been spending too much time on LJ.
4. I hope that after Tuesday, when I leave school for good for the year, I will be able to get some more pleasure reading done. I have so much backed up.
One legislator in western Massachusetts said a little, old lady who had opposed it had come around because of her two nice, Gay, married neighbors.
Some constituents wrote saying that they had changed their minds, like the elderly woman who said she previously asked Candaras to support the ban.
"But since then, Gale," the woman wrote, as Candaras told it, "this lovely couple, these two men, moved in next door to me, and they have a couple of children and they're married, and they help me with my lawn. And if they can't be married in Massachusetts, they're going to leave -- and then who would help me with my lawn?"
Also, Bay Windows did a fantastic job of blogging the ConCon. I thought The Globe’s coverage was phenomenal (big splash on the front page and two full pages inside.
2. We each are responsible for the content in our own LiveJournals. If you don’t like something – say, zombies – that’s your issue. You don’t have to read us any more. Feel free to take me off your daily reading list if you don’t like what I am writing about. Commenting is fine. Whining is not.
3. If I post something in your LJ that bothers you, I have no problem with you deleting the post, denying me access or taking me off your friends list. It’s *your* LJ. On a related matter, attacking me in someone else’s LJ, not so cooll. [Clearly, I have been spending too much time on LJ.
4. I hope that after Tuesday, when I leave school for good for the year, I will be able to get some more pleasure reading done. I have so much backed up.