Can't Stop the Tweet

For the third year, my English students wrote a tweet at the end of each class session. Some of these tweets summarize what we did. Some capture a specific moment. Others respond to a school event. Some are just fun. I didn’t include all of the tweets my students wrote. If you are interested in seeing the uncut list, go to my online classroom. Here is my 2011-2012 school year in tweets:

• Decode and analyze ideas.

• We read music! Tweeting with Big Bird.

• Fon’t dorget hour yomework!

• Curry with a side of shiny happy purple packet.

• Dashing through college essays. ‘sigh’

• Insider info on college essays from Mr. Shanley.

• Read essays and made funny noises.

• Use quotes like cayenne peppers.

• Learned about RSS and revision.

• I am a more intelligent person because Interpreter of Maladies showed me to show not tell.

• We shared the discussion equally.

• He loves her, he loves her not.

• Became a real durwan.

• Splendid!

• Blots of lack in class.

• Burned some DISCs

• The anvil meets the wordsmith.

• Gifting shears and making A plus essays.

• Shopping at the Lahari buffet.

• Another essay, another drag!

• Switched again!

• How long is the perfect kiss?

• What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

• We learned of a man who killed his dad and married his mom.

• Purged our emotions of pity and fear: catharsis!

• Got a vision from a blind man!

• Everything's an argument - no it's not.

• Principal Griffith observed class.

• Fate is always a step ahead!

• No sneezing!

• Oedipus is shellfish!

• Roll with the flow!

• We became guinea pigs for Mr. Hirsch's writing throughout the grades experiment.

• Witty tweets and Greek theater (re?) don't mix too easily. So we'll leave it be.

• Commas save lives!

• Oh, man, our futures are in our hands...Don't mess up!

• What's your major?

• Facebook in English!

• Passionate about apple pancakes.

• Act 1, scene 1 will come, but not in one lump slump.

• Shakespeare invented the TV drama teaser; watched start of Hamlet!

• A wedding, funeral, and a ghost?

• Who ya gunna call? The ghost of Hamlet's father!

• Turn the other cheek!

• Hamlet for adulteresses.

• "Awesome discussion!" - Mr. Hirsch

• Define the line!

• To eat or not to eat - that is the question: whether tis nobler to obey the computer lab rules or the pangs and arrows of outrageous hunger.

• Let the games begin!

• Beware of madness when reading Hamlet.

• Revenge is a dish best served cold - but karma can be cruel.

• Hamlet comes to an end.

• Speed dating - LOL!

• Download the argue-o-meter app for the iPhone today!

• Poems, parts, photo, and Santa!

• "Ooh! Everyone is here again for the second day in a row! Let's take another picture!" - Mr. Hirsch

• Poetry out loud!

• We read to a wall.

• One more for posterity.

• I think that I shall never meet a poem lovely as a tweet.

• Finals, finals, finals!!!

• Plagiarism is bad.

• Library database > Google

• Are you reading about a repeatable routine?

• Learned about food blogging!

• Billy Lombardo reads!

• Turnitin.com - we're going paperless!

• English is cool!

• Mountains, daughters, butterflies, cuckoos, and a side of Pi a la mode.

• A case of the Mondays.

• Minimize your screen!

• Do it in four symbols.

• Senioritis... 2 lazy 2 tweet

• Older siblings are usually older.

• In-class essay tomorrow. Do the write thing!

• Getting excited for senior project!

• The answer is 42.

• We had to write a speech!

• As FDR once said, "All we have to fear is fear itself." He forgot about graduation speeches.

• Period 4 is blogging!

• Oh, your left!

• Thanks for flying technology lab!

• On time today!

• Pick a blog, any blog!

• Good thing we learned tweets are less formal than email today.

• Plan your project; piece the puzzle.

• What's the password? (in a Russian accent)

• "Look at me."

• Food free zone!

• Less talk, more research.

• First step: DONE!

• Enjoy prom, but not too much!

• Pigs everywhere!

• Doing something a little more English-y.

• Senior Ditch Day? Please, we're nerds. Senior Elite 2012!

• "Where have all the children gone? " There's 15 computers per kid in this class!

• Wise words regarding Anne.

• Almost done; full speed ahead!

• The end is near!

• We finished our projects!

• Great coffee presentation!

• Just wandering around school, asking people about books.

• Don't try to be great...you are not that special.

• I thankfully appreciate your gratuitous thanks.

• A book you'll love!