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Redefining the Box
Just like Madonna, I’m reinventing myself again and taking a Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design through Royal Roads University. I’m in the last third of my teaching career but I don’t feel nearly done yet. At the same time I’ve been remote teaching since March 2020 and it just isn’t as satisfying as being face-to-face.…
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Becoming Leidah by Michelle Grierson
Becoming Leidah by Michelle Grierson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I waited so long to get my hands on this debut novel for the Nordic setting and it’s dip into mythology. It’s just a quiet little Norwegian fishing village …or is it? One of the local fishermen, Pieter, happens to catch a little something…
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Bottle critique
Before reading texts this week, I glanced through Taste (Winter 2020) and noted my first impressions. Generally, I found that the layouts of articles in Taste magazinewere comfortingly similar to the Ontario LCBO magazine Food & Wine, which I have more experience with. Yet the layout within the articles “More For Your Pour” (pp. 12-13) and “Wine & Bonbons”…
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Ode to Ozymandias – kitchen reno 2020
I met a builder from a vapid land, Who said — “I can oust those pillars of wood, Convert your cupboards to something less bland, Give you a new artisanal range hood. My amber hands spin drywall into gold, The steel sink of your dreams is within sight I’ll replace your floors with burnished vinyl,…
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Changing the narrative
My call to action: stop teaching chronologically.
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Gutter Child by Jael Richardson
This is the must-read book of the year and I can’t wait to teach with it.
Angie Thomas, Black Lives Matter, Catherine Hernandez, Cherie Dimaline, civil rights movement, dystopia, Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Gutter Child, Jael Richardson, kekla magoon, literacy, OLA Superconference, Scarborough, The Black Panthers, the marrow thieves, the rock and the river, To Kill a Mockingbird
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