We have discussions in my English class about all kinds of delicate issues: race, growing up and sexuality, family traumas. I write questions on a plastic sheet on the overhead, and they all complain about my handwriting and write. Then I sit on my stool and we discuss. In the novel we just finished, a […]
Read More Target Practice“Amadeus” features such haunting images as an old man dripping blood from a suicide attempt and a slumped corpse being thrown into a pauper’s grave and covered with lime. (I asked about that and learned what lime was.) The movie, frankly, scared me to death.
Read More Everything I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from the Oscar-Winning Film “Amadeus”I’ve been to a lot of trainings to learn “what the students’ lives are like.” These presenters are usually people who don’t spent 8 hours a day, every day, with students. Instead, they are university-level experts in cultural differences and student psychology. Sure, when you start teaching, you should learn about the students you’re working […]
Read More PenanceIf John Waters can be John Waters, I feel honor-bound to be myself. I’ve just been enjoying his book Role Models, although I’ve never had any interest in his films. He has a chapter on fashion that drove me to wear lemon and khaki. I just felt like it. Later in the book, he has […]
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