I draw a picture of myself on my classroom’s chalkboard everyday. I collect those pictures as camera phone photos and post them on Sundays. See the rest here.
Archive for March, 2015
Chalkboard drawings: The “Hogwarts” edition
Posted in chalkboard drawings with tags chalkboard drawings, dumbledore, hagrid, harry potter, jk rowling, lord voldemort, mad eye moody on March 29, 2015 by Christopher PearceCheck out my students’ new ‘zine!
Posted in comics with tags dracula, gem city comic con, zine on March 27, 2015 by Christopher PearceSuper excited to be helping my students premiere and promote their latest literary ‘zine effort this weekend at the Gem City Comic Con in Dayton Ohio. Last year we did Sherlock Holmes… this year, we look at Bram Stoker’s Dracula!
The kids did a great job on this one and if you’re in the area, please come and check out our panel, it should be awesome!
Teaching Comics: Shakespeare Charades
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, lesson plans, romeo and juliet, teacher comics, william shakespeare on March 26, 2015 by Christopher PearceI wanted to repost this comic from a few years ago as a counterpoint to yesterday’s strip where I take teachers to task for heavily relying on old ideas and lessons.
I didn’t mean to make it sound like teachers should NEVER use old lessons and ideas – indeed, building a reliable stable of working LPs you can fall back on is the cornerstone of a decades long career as an educator. You can’t do brand new things every second of your day. I was more taking aim at teachers whose entire repertoire is “read the story, answer the questions, quiz on the story and questions on Friday.” If Wednesday’s comic didn’t read that way, apologies.
The lesson in the above comic strip is one I’ve been using to great success for years; it’s become a student favorite. I pulled the idea from the Folger Shakespeare Library, but they don’t seem to have a proper link for the lesson any longer. I thought I’d share some of my armchair rationale behind the cut for what I’m doing here.
Teacher Comics: Teachers Just Going Through the Motions
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, retirement, teacher comics on March 25, 2015 by Christopher PearceTeacher Comics: Chicken Enchilada
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags chicken enchilada, comics, education, ellen, journal comics, teacher comics on March 24, 2015 by Christopher PearceYou can tell this was drawn during a standardized testing proctoring session because it has almost nothing to do with teaching or education. Hey, it’s a lot like standardized tests that way!
Teacher Comics: This is your brain on nostalgic headwear
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, fedora, indiana jones, journal comics, just say no, mansplain, teacher comics on March 23, 2015 by Christopher PearceTeacher Comics: PARCC wrap up
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, parcc, standardized testing, standardized tests, teacher comics on March 19, 2015 by Christopher PearceTeaching Comics: PARCC, Day Six (sort of)
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, parcc, standardized testing, teacher comics on March 18, 2015 by Christopher PearceTeacher Comics: Wicked Burn on Demi Moore
Posted in 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, demi moore, education, journal comics, nathaniel hawthorne, teacher comics, the scarlet letter on March 17, 2015 by Christopher PearceFor anyone who’s ever seen it, the ’95 version of The Scarlet Letter watches more like an adaptation commissioned by Cinemax with the edict, “Get rid of all that Puritan stuff and make it sexy!” It’s a terrible film.
There IS, in fact, a pretty decent mini-series adaptation of The Scarlet Letter from 1979, starring Meg Foster and John Heard. I do end up showing some of that to my students eventually.