This is the homework I should have graded this weekend. Well, actually, this is only part of it. Oh well. I have 2 off periods tomorrow to get some of it done.
In other news, this weekend I went to a Third Eye Blind concert, made pizzas, laughed a lot, drank too much wine, spent time with wonderful people, saw downtown, saw the typical Saturday night downtown crowd, got kicked out at closing time, played shuffleboard, and stayed out way past my bedtime. Success, but not something that I can do multiple weekends in a row.Is shuffleboard an olympic sport?
I can't wait for Thanksgiving and cooking, and eating and seeing family and friends and sleeping, and the Saturday market, and the Portland skyline, and the Portland radio stations.
This week in my classroom, my students learned about the history of Russia. Thursday and Friday were spent understanding Lenin and Stalin through pictures, quotes and some other resources. Some of the quotes that I used are pretty amazing. Here are my three favorites:
"Death solves all problems - No man, no problem." - Stalin
"One man with a gun can control one hundred without". - Lenin
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." - Stalin
My students had really great discussions about these quotes and pictures and stories. It sure is something when students grab ahold of an idea, especially controversial ones.
