Classes are over and finals are around the corner; it is time to look back on the 2010-2011 school year. At the end of each class period, my students write a short statement that communicates something important about what we did that day. We publish these statements on the social network site Twitter. Here is a not-so-brief but still edited version of my school year in my students’ tweets:
• First day of high school writing and “My Name.”
• Listen to Sesame Street, discuss and journal.
• Today, we read some OF MICE AND MEN and got our papers back.
• Show don’t tell
• Write a great college essay…be you!
• Dashes, dos and don’ts.
• This video didn’t work, I believe.
• We annotated on our knees.
• Better to start applications sooner than later.
• Bloom Taxonomy questions
• Jigsaw and a blackout!
• We wrote bad essays.
• University of (insert name here).
• We talked about chapter 3 in double circles. Quiz! Balanced book on head.
• Revise! Revise! Revise! The key to a “perfect” essay is the R.R.R. criteria.
• Quizzes make us tired.
• Started ANTHEM in a shortened period and had some time for the Sunday Puzzle.
• Twinkle, Twinkle, little star.
• DISC and your clickers.
• We took a quiz and learned about pronouns, commas, and copyright.
• Talked about Equality’s qualities.
• For every pleasure, there is a pain.
• Learned about quote sandwiches.
• Memoir and looking back.
• “Third and Final Continent” was splendid!
• Swap!
• Analyzed essays and, surprise, a phone went off in a locker outside.
• Discussed graphic novels: comical day.
• Shopping for essays.
• Hodge podge.
• “Thebes is dying, look, her children stripped of pity…”
• Oedipus loves his mother.
• We had an awesome day! Talked about similarities.
• Thesis work: I Want It That Way, YouTube - Backdorm Boys.
• Cucumbers and sweater vests.
• Solved the murder mystery!
• Majors and minors – not chords!
• A bridge to where? To Antigone.
• MAJOR research.
• We worked on grammar, learned about the Joneses, and got the best project!
• Anthology of pros.
• Watched HAMLET Scene 1!
• A regular Monday always has a puzzle.
• Majors aren’t important and mock interview.
• Reverse thesis and the bests for research.
• “I would be fine living in a box on Adams if I am making a difference.” Is there a major for that?
• Fear not thy major, ‘stead search thee as a forest ranger.
• “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
• We wrote about Chris Creed, researched the best and danced (according to Mr. Hirsch).
• End your relationship with Hamlet!
• “Go on.”
• New student, malapropisms, and Chris Creed
• Billy Crystal was meant to play the grave-digger.
• Course Fair!
• Watched the blood bath!
• Theses slips and Yorik!
• Today we played with the talk tix for the first time and discussed the Chris Creed book.
• It’s snowing!
• We need to make a Facebook page for Renee.
• We survived the essay test!
• Santa is not real.
• Explication!
• We tweet to the beat of the poem we roam.
• Memorize, remember, repeat…repeat, remember, memorize…
• Good job (we discussed the end of Chris Creed).
• Bright the sun, shone on this fateful day, poetry recitation.
• Purely Christopher Creed (and puzzle…but that doesn’t count)
• Poetry out loud!
• Stop looking at Twitter and study for your finals!
• We read a poem (together), hacked Infinite Campus, and learned about third quarter.
• Late! Starting our book circles.
• Poems, poems, poems! And final essay rubrics.
• Proposals give us wings and let us soar!
• Started TWELFTH NIGHT.
• Our tweets are better than yours.
• Snow day tomorrow; halls in a frenzy.
• Ken Kesey’s acid bus!
• We wrote in Shakespeare’s language and talked about the book.
• How has this Twitter stream affected our relationships among fourth period English? 250-500 words.
• We made ransom note poems.
• Another snow day. See you on Friday!
• We performed translated versions of Shakespeare.
• Pop tart!
• Studied quotes on note cards, learned about upcoming quizzes, and how Shakespeare coined words.
• Bad, bad, grad speech.
• Found out that the oddest things can be turned into poetry (even articles from newspapers).
• Two roads diverged in a wood & I –I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. Be sure to put that in your speech.
• Three volunteers. Yeah for bravery!
• Today we summarized Act 4 in comic form and watched TWELFTH NIGHT.
• Ten years from now, I may be in jail.
• Quiz on Act 5, “stock” characters, the Globe and Carmelo Anthony.
• Where is everyone?
• Puns and project work.
• Simon says ...
• Essay contest, no puzzle.
• My apostrophe/Stop being used so wrong/For this angers me #grammarday
• Speeches, screeches, smeaches, beaches, leeches, bleaches, breaches, peaches, niches, squenches,
• Studied the anatomy of TWELFTH NIGHT.
• Puzzles, murder, thesis, oh, my!
• We’re having a fun time starting A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
• No homework over spring break.
• TALE OF TWO CITIES is recalled to life!
• When you don’t know the answer…google!
• Reenacted TALE OF TWO CITIES.
• StageWrite!
• Research, smearsearch (due Friday).
• Qook a tuiz, puzzle, and quoting the Beatles.
• Cantaloupe, antelope. :)
• Post not working, oh the irony!
• We learned about the French Revolution and got our first TALE quizzes back.
• Senior project, day 247
• Mysteries finally being solved in A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
• What’s a place of power that’s nine letters?
• Today was all about Tale and Mr. Hirsch got invited to karaoke with a student!
• Work or freak out…
• We read essays and revised essays.
• If you have less than 100 points, I will be calling home.
• We keep each other safe, so trust your instincts. Don’t forget about senior project!
• Done swapping essays and we got our new assignment.
• Who’s watching you…you will never know.
• Bush pigs in America.
• Don’t text and drive!
• Slaved all period making pictures.
• Products - done. Presentations - video problems. And then there was that hockey incident.
• A fantastic presentation on white privilege!
• Presentation and thank you notes!
• It's TALE OF TWO CITIES day!
• College transitions.
• TALE finished, end of the year is near, only need finals and we are done.
• Course and teacher evaluation. Thank you for flying Senior English.
• Watched some STAR TREK today.
• Working on finals!
• Last day of class, have a sreat gummer!
If you want to see all of my classes’ tweets, go to SeniorEngpd1, SeniorEngpd4, and FroshEngpd2 on Twitter.
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