#day one hundred

[187days]

Day One Hundred

One of my students won’t come to class because he’s struggling, but he’s struggling because he won’t come to class. This is a vicious cycle, and I- and so many other adults in the building- are trying to pull him out of it, but, so far, nothing we’re doing is working. I wish I could make him see that I’ve got other students in the same section of World who find it difficult- and, heck, maybe they find me difficult, too- but just by showing up, asking for help as needed, persevering even when they’re frustrated, etc... they’re going to be successful. And he can be to. 

It’s extremely frustrating that I haven’t been able to convince him of that.

Today I was teaching one of the more difficult lessons in the first unit, but one of the most engaging. It’s about migration, so I started by asking students about the impact it has on cultures- ie, people bring their culture with them when they move to new places, cultures interact and blend, sometimes there’s backlash to that- and asked them what they knew about their own immigrant ancestors. I’d guessed (correctly) that many of them had ancestors like mine who’d fled poverty, famine, conflict, etc... Segue to me explaining how many people fleeing those things today are quite young. 

We’d talked about Korea in previous classes, and that situation seemed to interest a lot of them, so I showed a Ted Talk by a woman who’d escaped North Korea and also gotten her family out. We discussed that for a bit, I got some great questions about asylum-seeking, legal vs illegal border crossings, etc... as well as questions about North Korea, specifically. After that, I had them read Warsan Shire’s “Home” to get another perspective on what it means to be an asylum-seeker. 

It’s that poem that makes the lesson difficult; it deals with very serious issues and it has some profane language, so it requires a certain level of maturity, which is not always a guarantee with ninth graders. A few of the boys in Block 2 tried to make jokes, so I responded with the classic, blank, “I don’t get it,” and they knocked it off. We discussed lines that were unclear, or lines that stood out, and I ended the lesson by saying we’d be doing some research tomorrow to learn more about what is being referenced in those lines. Students are learning that it’s my style to string lessons together very deliberately, and some of them have said they like how clear I am about it, so that’s a win. 

My APGOV students have a test on Wednesday, so they did some MCQ practice to identify which topics they need to review prior to it, and which ones they have down. After that, we discussed FRQs and I showed them how to write  concept application questions. We tackled one together, then I had them do one on their own. We’ll do the same with quantitative analysis and SCOTUS case comparison questions tomorrow; I’ll save argument for the next test. Some of my students find it very easy, some find it very difficult, and it led to a hilarious discussion about whether my class or calculus is harder.

It’s definitely calculus if you ask me. I have no idea how to do that. But, of course, some of my students find that as effortless as I find political stuff, so it’s about learning the tools and tricks to make the political stuff easier. 

That’s what I’m here to help them do!

#teaching #teachblr #teacher #edublr #educhums #education #high school #social studies #warsan shire #conversations about current events #day one hundred

[im-here-for-everything]

Todays reminder!

I couldn’t make it this far without you. This is my 100th day posting on this blog. Thank you

#daily reminder #day one hundred

[markscherz]

Look at this friend I made on my way home the other day! What a glorious creature! So gracile and smooth! Truly a peak being. What a privilege it is to share this time in Earth’s history with creatures like this.

#field herping #Herpetology #nature #wildlife #animals #newt #salamander #Lissotriton #Lissotriton vulgaris #newt newt motherf***ers #friend shaped #this is a bad place for this friend to be #I see freshly dead newts on this path EVERY DAY #hundreds killed per year #so every time I find one I gently move it away #my habit of saying ‘hello friend’ to every animal has been adopted by my two-year-old #and it is magical #he literally says ‘helo fren!’

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[andorerso]

#their eye-contact game is unbeaten

#rebelcaptain #rogue one #therebelcaptainnetwork #dailyrebelcaptain #swedit #rogueoneedit #starwarsblr #thestarwarsdaily #starwarsfilms #starwarshub #swcreators #starwarsedit #tuserjyn #tusersimone #usertina #one day i'll learn how to color the elevator scene #but today is not that day #anyway the honesty the genuineness the connection.... 100 hundred 350 injured #*rebelcaptain #*gifs #*500

[theellipelli]

planning for the future

#please know that this was all written and thumbnailed in june #and i remembered it three days ago #and decided to finish it #anyways. #so flower husbands amirite #they are the pinnacle of a couple doomed by the narrative #they know each other through a hundred lives and only fall in love during the one where they can never have their happy ending #they still have an iron grip on me #as you can tell #scott smajor #jimmy solidarity #mcyt #traffic smp #trafficblr #comic #3rd life smp #life series #art #digital art #grian #gtwscar for like a single panel #also ignore all the inconsistencies this was all done from my memory of 3rd life #i know grian isnt in the bunker but i dont care enough to fix it #also literally just ignore any typos i beg of you #cw blood #cw corpse #cw death #long post

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 203

Another Hydra prompt! Because I am enjoying the designs I’ve made lol. And perhaps it’s a bit inspired by @radiance1 ‘s different dragon prompts too. 

So they’ve succeeded! They’ve managed to combine their powers- with a bit of shapeshifting helped along by so many ghost allies- and become a giant duck-you dragon! Well, originally they were going to do something else, but they couldn’t agree on an animal, so dragon it was! 

And how mighty they are! They’re giant, absolutely massive- dwarfing the couple of skyscrapers still in Amity. Damages via ghost attacks and general sparring made it where people really didn’t want to rebuild those types of buildings. 

But anyway, dragon! Them! They’re absolutely stunning! And did they mention powerful? Because boy oh boy, are they powerful. The GIW’s guns do practically nothing against their combined might, and barriers shatter before them! 

The uh, issue is that they erm… can’t turn back. Which is fine, they’ve all sort of outlived most of their generation- thank you possessions and ecto-contamination, it’s just a tiny bit of an adjustment. But really it’s not too bad, and someone needs to stop the GIW from trying to poke their heads into Amity. Like it’s been a solid couple of generations, it’s time to stop, thanks. 

Actually they’ve been a bit quiet. Meh, that surely isn’t a problem. Probably. Honestly they’re all going to use the opportunity to sprawl out where the school yard once was, their favorite place to sun their scales. Huh. Usually more people are around now that they think about it- or really, as Paulina points out, sharpening her fangs on one of the rocks. 

…

How long had they been sleeping, because it couldn’t have been that long. One of them was always awake, they slept in shifts after all! Yet there are things missing now as they patrol the skies, both Wes and Tucker pointing out specific buildings that the others didn’t particularly notice usually that now lay empty. 

Hm. 

Oh. That is a… strong barrier there. A really strong barrier actually. Pfft, they can take it! They’ve shredded every barrier together before- Ow. 

…

Okay this might be a bit of a problem. Shit. 

You want a general size reference? :P

#Dcxdp #Dpxdc #Prompts #The Class Pulls a Tiamat #The GIW have been working on a way to cage the Very Dangerous Ghost Dragon that just seemed to Appear one day according to their predecesso #Yes it’s been a good hundred years or so since the DP series happenings #Also yes they’re poly & sharing a body #They can talk telepathically & share some abilities or dozen #”Danny this is definitely all from your luck I swear” “It could also be Wes’ y’know” “Don’t drag me into this” #Big angry dragon king/queen (as Amity started calling them) throwing a fit at the barrier they can’t get through #Which gets some people’s attention both inside said barrier and outside it #This includes a few heroes and people who Should NOT have learned about a Giant Hydra

[ruporas]

can’t talk about it

[ID: Black and white comic of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The comic starts with the sounds "thud, thud, click". Vash, mid-action of peeling an apple, turns to the sound, noticing who it was that entered, and says, "Oh, Wolfwood, you're back." He resumes back to his apple in the next panel as he speaks, "Where'd you go? You snuck out of bed quickly this morning..." Wolfwood's hand then enters the panel, hovering over Vash's cheek and Vash looks up as Wolfwood asks, "Can I?" Vash responds, "Not going to talk about it?" while using a hand to gently hold Wolfwood's hovering hand and presses a kiss to his inner palm.

Vash then gets up fully, setting down the knife down on the table and the apple onto a plate, He leans into Wolfwood as Wolfwood explains, "Had to meet someone. Nothing interesting to talk about." Vash kisses Wolfwood's left cheek and a hand moves to cup his other cheek while muttering, "You're being vague." Wolfwood says neutrally, "If yer really that curious, keep askin'. We  can talk about that instead of doing this." Vash leans back and responds, "Let's talk after, since... You look so tired."

The panel pans to a close up of Wolfwood's downcast eyes, bags heavy underneath his eyes. He doesn't allow Vash to sit in that moment for long though, then saying, "Yer not helping, Spikey. Being all slow with it... I could fall asleep right now." He moves his hand to start unclasping Vash's coat, starting from his collar. Vash with red cheeks, responds briskly, "Oh, shut up. I'm worried about you. I can't be worried?"

The final shot shows Wolfwood's back to the viewer while Vash's softened expression can be seen as he holds gently onto the side of Wolfwood's face and a hand firm on his waist. Wolfwood responds, "I'm fine, seriously," pausing for a moment before continuing, "Is it okay to still..?" Vash responds, "Yeah, it's okay."

The next image is a shot from later that night after the previous comic. Vash and Wolfwood are now in bed, half naked. Wolfwood's buries his face into Vash's chest, his arms wrapped around him, while Vash is petting at his hair. Vash reminds him, "Hey. You said we'd talk about it." Wolfwood pauses for a moment before piping up, "In the morning? I'm sleepy." Vash says, "Okay..."

The next two pages start from the morning after. Wolfwood is already fully awake, pulling on his outer jacket as he says to Vash, whos' still bundled in his blankets, "Breakfast is on the table. Make sure to eat it. I'm going to grab some things in town and then we're leavin'. Got it?" Vash says, "Mh." Wolfwood responds, "Good. See ya in a bit." The dialogue starts to shift into Vash's inner thoughts now, as he gets up and eats toast, thinking, "Wait. Weren't we supposed to... talk about it?" The next shot then shows him fully up, meeting Wolfwood in town. He carries a half worried expression with him while Wolfwood slides on his glasses for him. A quick panel shows Wolfwood's tired expression from the night before and quickly juxtaposes with Wolfwood in front of him who's smiling gently, the shades covering his eye bags. Wolfwood asks him, "Still not awake yet?" Vash pauses, his thoughts stirring, thinking, "Oh. I guess I was getting ahead of myself... thinking you owe me that kind of honesty." He smiles at Wolfwood and responds, "I'm awake!" His thoughts continue, "Maybe one day, you'd trust me enough to share your burdens."

The final image shows Wolfwood pulling at Vash's cheek and Vash complains, "Owwwww why..." Wolfwood quickly says, "You were thinking something stupid, right? It's all over yer face." Vash mutters, "Nooo, I wasn't..." END ID]

#vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #Theyre both thoroughly exhausted tired individuals -- vash having to fight this lonely battle for over a hundred years and getting dragged #back into inevitable situation with knives after a 2 years hiatus of being a gunslinger. they both need so much Rest and comfort in this #department... .SIGHS. BUT I JUST THINK ABOUT WOLFWOOD . AND HOW... LITTLE He has existed on no man's land. how majority of his years being #alive is being used as a weapon and to kill when him at his very core is the most giving and selfless individual ever #badlands rumble inspired me a bit but i do think wolfwood gets dragged into occasional tasks from the eye of michael while on his duty of #guiding vash -- or i think that one chapter where we got to see other members of eom -- there's like a clear division within the eom too #i think.... so i figured similarly to vash but not to the same amount -- there are people that look for wolfwood too. but most of the time #it's probably wolfwood that has to look for someone else and take them out. i feel like it happens ever so occasionally. #evidentially these two don't talk enough canonically but they always know how to express things properly to affirm that they're okay #they have the worst time ever sharing burdens - can't willingly burden the other and has neeever asked for help or reprieve in their #desperate situations... vw is a huge case of right person wrong time syndrome so they just. in the time they get to spend together -- even #if romantically - they don't have enough time to heal to get over that kind of hurdle. They've just never asked for help in all the years #they've been alive -- they don't even know how to and its just aughhhsgskg #and well! they don't even need to ask! because they'll be there for each other anyway at the end of the day -- company and presence alone. #ruporas art

[waitineedaname]

#fma #fmab #i don't often do silly polls but im gonna set this one at a week bc the fma fandom is not the Most active in the world #pride fma #greedling #greed fma #wrath fma #do i tag them as the bradleys. i guess so #selim bradley #king bradley #anyway i think all these options are so funny #pride is the terrifying eldest sibling of the homunculi but he has to spend all day pretending to be a fifth grader #greed is two hundred but suddenly has to experience being a teenager which must be WILD for a dude who was born an adult #and wrath is the baby sibling but is an Old Man who should've retired but he was too busy doing Evil Schemes

[sunsetofdoom]

no no no you didn't hear me right I said do the Jedi have SECTS. shut up I SAID do the Jedi have SE-

#star wars #swtor #been workshopping this post for years lads. #i have had strong feelings on jedi sects since the Dreamhouse #came up with the Ascetics #and those Seventh-Day Adventist Jedi #SECTS. DO YOU HEAR ME. SECTS!!!!!!! #satele shan is wrangling three dozen Jedi sects on Tython ALONE #there are HUNDREDS in the Order proper #there is no 'one unified Jedi philosophy' that's BULLSHIT

[clownsuu]

Is Ulent (Plant dude) still alive my guy?

I miss the tired tree (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

YOU REMEMBER MY OLD ASS SON ULENT?????

GEEEEEZ he’s such an old fard character I am shocked anyone remembers him! Let alone ask for anything about him-

He’s completely fine btw! Still being the ye ol tree man himself Enjoying tea and talking to the trees-

#Not welcome home related btw #My partner and I were talking about him the other day actually- I missed him smhh one of my very first tall ass buff characters LMAOOO #Also to anyone (aka basically everyone) who doesn’t know him- this is Ulent! #He’s a tree but is based off of a old succulent plant I had when I was younger! #He was such a pretty succulent plant too smhh I miss him a lot #He lives on as a very quiet tree man who’s hundreds of years old- #The older he gets the more tree like he becomes #Anyway sorry for the random non fandom related post I really wanted to draw my old boy JDHGDDH

[187days]

Day One Hundred

Today was one of those days that just felt off.

I woke up super early and couldn't fall back asleep, my morning workout wasn't great, and every little thing that happened during my prep block- like, an email from a parent, or a question from a coworker- felt way more stressful than it should have. There's absolutely no reason for it.

Some days are just off days.

Fortunately, the teaching went pretty well. I started showing Shake Hands With the Devil in my Global Studies classes; if you're new here, that's a film about the Rwandan Genocide, it's extremely good for teaching this part of history, it sticks with the students. It's also r-rated, so anyone who didn't get parental permission to watch it went to the library and did a reading assignment instead. Those who did watch the film, though, already have so much to say- and they only saw about the first 35 minutes! It'll be interesting to hear all of their thoughts once we finish the whole thing.

Meantime, I got to hear my APGOV students' thoughts about Federalist 10 and 51 because we had a discussion today. They all had to come in with at least four questions about each document, and the expectation was that they'd either ask their questions, answer their classmates', or both. They were a bit tentative, at first, but after about fifteen minutes or so they got on a roll. They talked, with occasional input from me, for most of the block. It was very cool, and I was happy that a few of them asked me if we'd do something like this again (answer: yes).

At track practice, The Head Coach gave the team a talk about States, and the privilege it is to qualify, and the importance of this week of preparation. Then we had the sprinters do a stair workout, followed by some wicket drills. They haven't done those in a while, and the variety's good for them.

So I guess, despite the off day, I rallied!

#teaching #teachblr #edublr #education #teacher #high school #social studies #shake hands with the devil #romeo dallaire #coaching #indoor track #post season #the head coach #federalist papers #day one hundred

[inkovert]

I don't make the rules but - if you don't get excited at the thought of going back and re-reading the story you wrote then you're writing the wrong story.

You are your first and most important reader.

#the way I got into my bed one night and was awake and anxious at 2 AM and decided to open my story on my phone and read it from ch 1 #I was having a blast and didn't want to tear myself away to go to sleep #also been daydreaming about the scenes in this chapter I'm currently writing that may or may not make its way into the actual story #but every day or so I begrudgingly write a few hundred words to get it on paper #and I go back and reread it voraciously until I get to the point where I left off and am like WHERE IS THE REST #so yeah #what is the point of putting words to paper if not to finally indulge in the pleasure of reading and enjoying the scenes we daydream about?

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Recently extinct species make me sad for all the usual and normal reasons (loss of life, biodiversity and unique life forms that experienced the world wholly uniquely and acted in it like no other, to name three), but a big thing that also makes me so sad is the forgetting that comes right after. Many endangered species are greatly ignored to begin with whilst alive of course, which is awful, but the way that extinction also causes us to forget. A species could’ve been so abundant a hundred years ago, people would’ve used a fish species or a tasty plant for food, or parents would’ve warned their children to not put a poisonous toadstool or insect in their mouth, a diver would exclaim, “Aha!” after emerging from the shallows holding an especially big bivalve, or someone making a species diary would sketch out a local bird or fasten a single flower to the page. But.. then the species goes extinct. It doesn’t exist anymore. None of these events, these actions happen anymore. Not with these species. The people who had these experiences dwindle out and they may not even realise that their experiences were among the last of their kind. And we forget.

#i was thinking about the new zealand greyling which was once abundant #the maori people used to fish it and use it for food #for generations upon generations this fish species was their normal #but now it is just gone #could they have guessed that this will happen? that their everyday food item would go extinct one day #i was also thinking about the atlantic sturgeon and how it went regionally extinct in the baltic #the old northern europe people knew sturgeons. heck we had them less than a hundred years ago still #it was a native fish just like any other. just like salmon and trout #now? no one talks about them #they are forgotten #we dont learn about them alongside the perch and the pike and the roach and the trout #they are a mystery of a time gone by here #and it makes me so sad… how quickly we forget. we shouldnt

[egberts]

louis 9 weeks old vs 12 weeks old with the ball tower

#please dont judge me for making them a tiktok account. for one i dont care what u think ill just block u but also in transparency #i am Not a tiktok person and idk how to follow their trends or do whatever im here to edit and share cute videos about my kitties #dont expect quality content if you follow them lol #or consistent updates #somebody told me you have to post at least a video a day but fuck all that #thats daunting af #though i do already have hundreds of viedeos of them #sonboys allowed #fig #lou

[coffit0]

Did that silly trend where I draw my two comfort (and discomfort) characters together ^__^

#they could make my day one hundred times better or one million times worse no in between #persona 5 #one piece #goro akechi #portgas d ace #persona 5 royal #i missed drawing Goro auuughhh thats my cat #artfitto