Archive for March, 2007
On Props and Performance
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Just read: CNN Education News feature on an 88-year-old AP English teacher who “still fires up her students.” Mrs. Rose “Mama G’ Gilbert teaches in a suburban Los Angeles public school and gets attention by using props–putting a fire-hat on her head when reading from 1984, and a slip over her clothing when teaching Freudian [...]
Slow Days
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007I’ve always loved Snow Days because they force us to slow down. I’m almost always moving at a breakneck pace, and don’t really have a chance to do nothing…Being trapped in the house with no committments, no meetings, no running to do, no dropping off and picking up kids, gives me no choice but to [...]
Freedom from Speech
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007Speaking of speech and the freedom of it… I’d like some freedom FROM speech. I’m getting old–I am growing annoyed with all of the talking that people of all ages are doing on their cell phones. Friday, March 2: 7:40 am: Driving kids to school, I spot three drivers, cell phones pressed to their ears, [...]
Freedom of Speech
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007If Americans have any one belief in common, it is that we all have a right to “free speech.” Of course, it is our First Amendment right, and I argue, probably the only two words from the Constitution that the majority of Americans can recite. Those words are oft mis-interpreted and re-interpreted to fit the [...]