My School Year in Tweets

This year, I tried an experiment. At the end of each class period, one student in class would write a tweet that summarized the class period, captured an important moment or connected to something we were doing. Once in a while, I wrote a tweet too. Here is my school year in tweets:

• Ready to go! I am looking forward to meeting everyone and learning together!
• Wow! An all male Freshman English class!
• First day of Senior Year!
• Keep Sesame Street clean!
• Ewww, college essays and recommendations. Personality not generality.
• All guys and we all got A's for today!
• We read together. It was weird but awesome.
• Started off OF MICE AND MEN. Loved it!
• Broken Gourd, culture, personal essays: personal and show me, don't tell me.
• Bad essays!
• Taste test of essays - boy was that boring.
• Use your phone, take pictures of notes.
• “Grammar Girl and grading system.
• Success today does not guarantee success tomorrow.”
• " The best laid schemes o' mice and men go astray.
• Who got in" activity was helpful
• Looking back, self grading, feedback; our fingers are exhausted!
• We wrote essays and expanded our minds.
• Spoilers don't always spoil.
• Extreme thesis writing!
• Pull the trigger on Facebook
• Ayn Rand is confusing; being great is bad? :)
• We controlled the Dominican Republic - twice.
• The stapleless stapler saves staples.
• What is politics? We were political.
• Not enough pink!
• Kick me, literary terms, puzzle, and name game.
• Inner-outer discussion and super sheet fantastical quiz.
• Principal visit!
• What do you watch? Mr. Hirsch loves Star Trek, a little too much.
• Musical chairs with responding to the book. Grammar Girl is coming!
• Dictatorship bad!
• Aliens in Toronto.
• We are powerful!
• Silence is golden....or is it?
• Blithe Spirit presentation: Love Triangles!
• Mr. Hirsch is a frightened freshman, WERCS visit.
• Quiz (which was pretty fun)
• EEEEdipus's acting is a tragedy.
• Brain vomit
• No plagiarizing! Don’t tell freshmen!
• Is it Thursday yet?
• Major research. Shakespeare is fun!
• "Ethnomusicology is the study of music of ethnic groups."
• There is a Raisin that is in the Sun
• Grammar Girl is coming to town!
• Major work, major questions, major grades.
• Scene cut because of racism.
• Protestant or Catholic ghosts?
• Previously on RAISIN IN THE SUN...
• Modern Shakespeare, 2009 lingo!
• Ouch! RAISIN Act 3 Quiz didn't go well.
• Thanks for a fantastic visit, Grammar Girl!
• "More than kin but less than kind."
• Hamlet and his women!
• Live the Creed!
• "Hamlet is a whipper snapper."
• Read Creed.
• "Oh, no. Here comes Dad."
• Hamlet in a hurry.
• Is Creed dead?
• Yorick!
• Hamlet's dead!!!
• Creed questions and Creed connections!
• In class essay test: WWHD?
• I support school chest!
• Influences on Torey, quiz, NO SNEEZING!
• Heads!
• Everyone's here! We took a picture.
• Chocolate (and questions and killing a fly and themes and rubrics)
• "There were answers everywhere you looked."
• Clever Hans is a smart - - - donkey.
• I'm on a boat!
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead - for real!
• Santa is magical, he breaks all rules of physics!
• Snow day, PLEASE!
• Projects, projects, projects
• The final: put up or shut up.
• Work, work, work!
• Online grading is crazy.
• For my senior project, I will be stalking my ex-boyfriend.
• Poetry is..
• Dandelions? Really!
• You're insane if you don't vote for McMurphy.
• Romeo loves himself.
• We want the radio voice!
• Pimped out Romeo and Juliet.
• Dead people everywhere!
• Research makes us have to go to the bathroom.
• What about Officer Krupke?
• New people Mr. Hirsch scared away.
• Herro very botiful Amellican girl!
• Watch that sarcasm!
• No one has any ideas about what they want to say in their graduation speech.
• Mr. Hirsch is a _____ teacher. Feedback survey.
• Sack to your beats, gadies and lentlemen.
• Light’s out, school’s off!
• Mr. Scott killed with lots of knives in the elevator
• Recalled to life.
• (creative and thoughtful tweet)
• We got grilled!
• Fake quiz; scared us all!
• Weedy for the geekend!
• Echoes, shadows and colours, oh, my!
• The end is nearer.
• Still knitting!
• "Bush Pigs"
• Quotes, quotes, quotes, and more quotes!
• What does catfish mean?
• Senior Project day 386543
• Shopping for essays.
• Darney – should he stay or should he go?
• This essay is bad, this one is good
• We were small but mighty!
• Unexpected no school day. How nice!
• Senior's last day! Thank you for flying Senior English!
• Tale of Two Cities is heating up!
• Congratulations to the Deerfield High School class of 2010!
• May the farce be with you!
• Our last class. Thanks for flying Freshman English! It has been a fantastic year.