carlrosin.bsky.social
Husband, father, teacher of HS English & Philosophy, reader, admirer of Socrates' dialectic & critical skepticism; New England-born, PA-resident. Philosophy Nat'l HS TotY '14 (PLATO). Posts are personal, not representing the district.
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That’s a great drawing, but where are your arms? I’ve met you — I know you have some! (Or is that omission a clever allusion to Kindred?)
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Goes quite badly for couriers Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, though
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Not only do they lack basic honor, they revel in the opposite. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only one fired after this fiasco was Brian Hughes, for the “crime” of publicly acknowledging Goldberg’s story. It’s ironic that people who hate postmodernism are so committed to destroying truth.
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I told my students it’s called an “em-dash” in honor of Emily Dickinson, its most aggressive purveyor among great writers.
(I recanted later, though.)
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Yes! There’s value in energetically seeking connection and requiring a patient process of digestion instead of having stuff fed to us pre-chewed, like pablum. The loss of stamina I’ve noticed among (some) students* is among the most ominous crises in modern education.
* And some teachers and admins
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Several each day, I’m sure. Don’t try to give them an ibuprofen, though—got to draw the line somewhere, right?
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1) College Board
2) AI
3) goto 1)
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Then went off to paint…something. I’m sure there’s no reason at all to be suspicious.
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Scott, I hope you’re not starting to feel tempted to radically indoctrinate anyone or anything
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He has to read Bolt’s play A Man For All Seasons!
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Greatness is incompatible with an unwillingness to bear criticism
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I attribute a nontrivial amount of blame to a preference for a lazy sort of utilitarian ethics (to be fair: that ethics is more ill-applied than wrong). When what can be easily counted/measured resonates most loudly, valuable intangibles tend to suffer a terrible discounting.
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I recommend Philadelphia
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15-263, 3 TD including game-winner: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Defeats Chiefs in Super Bowl: Beowulf
No targets: One Hundred Years of Solitude or Invisible Man
3/3
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Nothing in the first half, 8-79 in the second half: Persuasion
9-106, 1 TD in the first half: Great Expectations
Breaks tackle to score the go-ahead TD: A Farewell to Arms
3 drops and an offensive pass interference but a magnificent one-handed TD: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
2/3
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His dim understanding of geography makes Ben a non-starter for me, even before one gets to his support for theft in the context of the stock market.
I’m sure his willingness to threaten violence on even his own nephew is a plus for the pro-bully party.
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Yes, the word “dread” is a giveaway that the original author of those paragraphs is alienated from teaching: while reading and grading essays takes an often intimidating amount of effort and time, reading and responding to student writing is something I am believe in, not something I dread.
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I’m also curious about how an AI can take attendance (not the big issue here, I know, I know)
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If their goal is to pick excerpts from what they perceive as canon, I get it, although I agree with you that their selection is (much) narrower than mine would be. If they were to suggest that the canon *is* what they list, their list should indeed be considered mistakenly parochial. 2/2
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I have my many critiques of standardized testing—which mirror yours—but I don’t think CLT, about which I have no opinion, presumes to say (or imply) that they have captured the whole canon in their test material. True, it would be admirable for them to be more explicit about that. 1/2
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And for an assessment of punctuation and capitalization standards? Oof. Nope.
Also: If the “em” in “em-dash” isn’t named for her*, it should be!
* it isn’t (boo!)
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I call Dickinson one of the 2 or 3 most brilliant and essential American poets and love teaching her work, but a huge portion of her oeuvre seems too ambiguous or idiosyncratic for a standardized test. “Much Madness…” and “I Keep the Sabbath…” could be appropriate for reading comprehension, though.
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When he says “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: / Words without thoughts never to heaven go,” he’s using “up” to refer to north latitude, obviously meaning Greenland, so “below” must mean Denmark. This alternate interpretation suggests that he wants Denmark and Greenland to remain united.
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Very creative. I thought the first half glittered with inspiration, but the cleverness wore down as the book went on.
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His expression says, “The evidence has not yet convinced me. Have you addressed the sincere counterarguments?”
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Totally agree with you…but your 3rd equation requires discrimination that many students aren’t (developmentally and otherwise) able/prepared/inclined to apply. Moreover, the design of these products—both those leaning toward “good” and “bad”—often subverts thoughtful, rational discrimination.
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What a great novel—among the handful of the best ones in our century so far, IMO.
Did you see (and do you recommend) the streaming series they made from it?
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I want to figure out s way to do this with mine: apple.news/A51AaXZQZTXK...
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The idea is empowered (arguably even made possible) by the ubiquity of cherry-picking
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A question I’m always curious about when we do it: in what sense is it a “love song” (or *his* love song)?
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Charles Dickens had something to say against Ignorance (Stave Three of A Christmas Carol):
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Seems kinda disrespectful of them to require that of you. (I’m curious how they would respond to that.)
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When I’ve had 80s and 87s, I still often found we could have done more. We also have 41s, which are just too short.
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I was thinking the same thing: I’ve *never* heard of a school timesheet for teachers.
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Same for me. 30 years ago!
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Great story! I use it every year with my freshmen. So much great literature is dark (still great, and still reflective of valuable aspects of the human condition, just sad in one way or another); the vivacity of the narrator character and the turn at the end make this one a healthy exception.
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We know this one exists—we’ve been there together!
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If only logical consistency still existed….
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I wish you were correct about that “can’t,” but—tragically and ironically—morality and justice has been leached out of the system by those who proclaim that their ascension to power has made anything they legislate become “right.”
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Why rein? Keep going! Practicing writing analysis keeps us in touch with what our students often have to do—I wish I could get myself to write more!
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The best news is that the dream you offer also prepares them for a huge amount of “the real world,” without them even having to think about that now.
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Hi, Debbie,
I’m a HS teacher of English—I messaged you recently about your list and you noted that I had to complete my profile, which I thought was complete. Where do I have to go to complete the profile?
Thank you in advance!
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Grapes and East of Eden are both TBRs that I haven’t tackled before (other than in excerpted chapters). 100Y and Brothers are much-needed re-reads.
Note: The Brothers K is a very enjoyable novel, a baseball- and religion-centered reworking of Brothers Karamazov, written by David James Duncan.