I just can't wrap my head around this. So our MLLs are just supposed to acquire a new language by osmosis? What is the thinking here? #EduSky #EAL #ELLchat #MLLs

What I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time and see this!

I have yet to type either 'language' or 'acquisition' correctly on the first try, which is... inconvenient for an EAL teacher. Perhaps I need a manual typewriter?

Some days I wish this account were not so accurate.

Her essays are also amazing - and I never understood the Harry Potter mania when the Earthsea books are so much better.

I'd love to join in on this.

thanks for the list!

Finally back in #Chennai , with my favorite person, in our favorite cafe, playing our favorite game. #vinylandbrewindia

But kings and mightiest potentates must die,
For that’s the end of human misery.

As we head out to the streets:

And Jack Aubrey would have definitely struggled with the tight, tucked-in T shirt requirement!

Bleed, bleed, poor country!

I went through the exact same thought process. ("Wait, someone used the word computer in the script? was it in relation to the alarm clock?) and then realizing that 'just for fun' easily outruns 'I don't think' in the cavalcade of daily horrors.

2 headlines from this week

Some days my brain feels like it ricochets from one terrible news story to another. It is indeed 'woe’s scene, world’s shame...Brief abstract and record of tedious days.'

Always on the nose.

Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado. All three basically perfect!

What's the collective noun for knitters? A skein (?) of #melttheice hat makers came out on a rainy morning to protest an ICE lease in Chester County.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

A small postcard party today, trying to prevent ICE/DHS renting space in a local office park.

I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you.

A red wool 'Melt the Ice' hat on snowy branches.

3rd #melttheice hat completed. This time I folloewd the pattern more closely, and lo and behold! It fits! Ready for the next round of protests.

My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.

Or perhaps they were just stage managers in a former life? I certainly don't have 'exceptional impulse control', 'consistent self discipline' or 'mastered anxiety management', but I'm a no doubt annoying 30 minutes early to everything. If I'm not half an hour early, I feel like I'm an hour late.

My 2nd #melttheicehat was also too big, but felted/shrunk nicely. I ran into at least 10 other hat makers! (And yes, citing sources on your poster seems to be a 'tell me you're a teacher without telling me' move - lots of other teachers commented 😄)

It sounded like neither passenger nor pet had a very good time.

A paperclip is another Norwegian resistance inspired symbol.

Did you see the NYTimes article today about traveling with a pet on the Queen Mary?

thanks - I will give that a try for the next one!