My eighth year at St. Vincent Pallotti has drawn to a close, and overall, it was a satisfactory year. As always, I delight in the honors freshmen, enjoying easing them into the school culture. I had two sections, as usual, and each had a very distinct personality. They arrived better prepared for high school than […]
And just like that, we are down to nine days of teaching left. I have stretched the final units a bit for the sophomores and juniors, slowing down the pacing and adding in supplemental works so it’s more in-depth than. The honors freshmen are just now wrapping up The Old Man and the Sea and […]
I’m taking two grad school courses this summer. One is Writing & Critiquing Fiction and its interesting being asked to write a short story without a premise or anthology theme. It was kind of freeing and also kind of scary as I not only wrote something from scratch, on deadline, but then submitted it to […]