Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The next installment of Futurama, The Beast With the Billion Backs, will be released June 24.
I.
Can’t.
Wait!
Since I’m sure you can’t wait either, here’s the official trailer. Expect to hear from Taylor about it when the DVD comes out!

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I wanted to tell Chris Judson that he is now my newest hero after reading his post “Why Bashing Ed?” but blogger wouldn’t let me comment because I don’t use blogger or open id. So I popped over to twitter to tell him there and possibly re-tweet so others could read it too.
But twitter was stressed out.
My […]

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Today Mr. Anderson came to my room and asked me for my binder of film curriculum so he can xerox it. This is stuff that I wrote in college. Stuff that I took seriously and created when nobody would let me teach it. There’s much more in that binder than I used this year in […]

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Our librarians are the very models of librarians. ~sorry, i don’t say media specialist~ They asked me what films I intended to teach. I gave them my list.  
Now I wish I could take that list back. I didn’t realize it would take until so late in the year for the films to arrive. ~not their fault […]

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This just needs to be said, in re the following sentence:
Judy Benitez, executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, cautioned that it might be too soon to say whether there really were rapes at the evacuation sites [during hurricane Katrina.] ~isn’t that still going on?~
It is absolutely too soon.

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Kaelie,
I had a mentor once. They’re overrated. That’s why you need three or four of them. I’m proud to be one of yours. Didn’t know I was teaching all those things you attributed to me, but I’ve learned so much myself this year from knowing you that I suspect it was all you. ~case in […]

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In the bathroom chatter ~lounges were removed long ago. hurray for harry wong~ one phrase keeps coming up, “I don’t understand why the district doesn’t step in and do something.”
As though somebody told us the district was on our side and WE BELIEVED THEM.

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Inspired by ROCKETnumber9, Gaping Void, and Stephen King

Women like action.  Men like musicals.
I am a woman. I never watch Lifetime, but I watch Spike every day. This isn’t because I’m unusual ~even though i am~ it’s because genres shouldn’t be defined around imaginary groups of people. Spike is action. Why not just say that? It’s just as […]

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drawing by Ken Rodoff
I was going to write a post about two near-fights I intervened in during one 25 minute lunch and how a student ~one i knew would never do this~ refused to come with me and popped off to me while the whole of B lunch stood watching like it’s John Woo.
And how I stood […]

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Stephen King ~et. al.~ is valid reading for high school. Better that students read and enjoy King than pretend to read Dickens and hate ~fear?~ it.
Those who read King, Rowling, Koontz, Sparks, Grishom, Zane, and whatever else they damn well feel like reading will cultivate a love for reading and may someday decide to read […]

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