January 2012
26 posts
Homework
Not kidding, last week’s Thursday homework had some stellar results.
Prompt: Read the quote by MLK, then write until you FILL THIS BOX.
Quote: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
I will always agree with the civil right leader Dr. Martin Luther King and I especially agree with this one. I try my best to help...
...to create a bright future.
The law of cause and effect is known as karma. Nothing ever happens to us unless we deserve it. We receive exactly what we earn, whether it is good or bad. We are the way we are now due to the things we have done in the past. Our thoughts and actions determine the kind of life we can have. If we do good things, in the future good things will happen to us. If we do bad things, in the future bad...
Failure, professionally. | Caroline in the Delta →
At least my kids aren’t throwing pebbles at my back this year?
Latest Student Writing Sample #2
Prompt: What would you do if you were in charge for the day?
I’m anxious to be able to manage my class for a day. I think this will be thrilling and tremendous. I want to tell you incredible ideas of why I want to be a teacher for a day.
First of all, the organization will be familiar to another teacher. The desks will be like Ms. L’s. I’d like to be in groups instead of a...
Regarding the future. | Caroline in the Delta →
Self explanatory.
Perks of Being a Wallflower...
thatiskindoffunny:
Movie is in pre-production right now. Ezra Miller will be in it. I’m hoping it will be good!
P.S. he is adorable.
Also in this movie: Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, and Mae Whitman. I’m pretty excited.
Niiiiiiice
The Alchemist
I gave Sarah my copy of The Alchemist as a temporary Christmas present over break and she just gave it back. She said she liked all my underlining.
But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of...
What's that riding on your everything? | Caroline... →
Practically bliss.
Story of my life.
I am about to stand up and re-start my “wrinkle release” setting on my dryer for, literally, the fifth time over two days and put my tea back in the microwave for, literally, the fourth time in the past 40 minutes. Even in the 89 seconds it takes for my tea to warm up I get distracted doing something that takes long enough for the tea to get cold again.
And people wonder why I...
Gratitude #1
I HAVE A SWEET JOB
I’m wearing a professional clearance skirt that has pockets.
Break reminded me how much I love mi familia
Imma be more than an hour early for school today
Four hours of sleep and trucking through the day will be just as easy as devouring a piece of delicious frosting-covered CAKE
“It’s not that I think normal people are boring or not good enough, it’s that...”
– Don Miller: Religious without actively suffocating you.
Before the reacclimation. | Caroline in the Delta →
Not sure if this post will make any sense to anyone, but here it is nonetheless.
On our way. | Caroline in the Delta →
Genius from Auntie
Auntie: Well you know my theory about you, right?
Self: What is it?
Auntie: That it'll be your wedding day and you'll still be saying, "He's not my boyfriend."
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You are not the average human. I'm not blowing smoke up your ass, you are! Or these types of things wouldn't be happening to you!
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And I want to say fuck you Caroline, on the goddamn scrabble! This is supposed to be FUN!
December 2011
17 posts
Double-checking.
me: AM I EMBARRASSING?!
eliese: YOU ARE A GEM.
Year ends. | Caroline in the Delta →
Applications continue. | Caroline in the Delta →
Goal: apply to 8 new jobs before March. Thus far, I’m at five applied for, two others started, and two summer applications finished. That puts me at 7/8 done. One more? Maybe I’ll extend to ten…
The reality of it is-- | Caroline in the Delta →
Latest Student Writing Sample
Prompt: Suppose you have a younger cousin who will be in the sixth grade next year. Write to your cousin explaining what is good about being in the sixth grade.
Hey, cousin it’s me Betty* and I want to let you know why 6th grade is awesome! First, I want you to know hat you have nicer teachers (I told you this so you wouldn’t fret). My favorite teacher is Ms. Lampinen, but we call...
Real life. | Caroline in the Delta →
There’s another before it that I didn’t post. Srry.
The up side. | Caroline in the Delta →
Accompanying jam from Roblr.
Should be sleeping, but... | Caroline in the Delta →
Planning procrastination has never been so productive as this.
Hello, grad school. | Caroline in the Delta. →
About grad school +2 looming applications.
November 2011
16 posts
Separation of School and Life. | Caroline in the... →
DOING OR DONE
Restore Health
Less caffeine
20 minutes outside minimum daily
Happy lungs
Homemade lunch
6.5 hours of sleep minimum daily
Restore brain
Read one YA book/2 weeks
Exercise drawing fingers
Practice paino
Think about future
Apply for minimum 5 more jobs
Contact potential mentors
Journal the bests and worsts. Analyze
This is my life.
Artichoke Heart
Peeling an artichoke heart For the sake of it— To be abandoned to ignorance (I don’t know how to cook this—I am too lazy to find out)
Thinking of a dog Dead Black Curled like in sleep, spine On the border of lawn and road Who left him there?
Eyes, wells, Pouring to you tiny children in Grown bodies, grown minds, grown hearts Theirs like this artichoke I force the green, purple, blackening layers...
Teaching Storytellers | Caroline in the Delta →
Student work.
“The lights were on, and you could hear the doctor screaming out orders to...”
– Best first line of a TLI cold prompt I’ve ever read. Sixth graders, I love you.
