by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 9, 2021 | Blogging
I’m 9 days into a 30-Day Writing Challenge on Medium, and I thought I would share my reading list with you. I’ll be back on WordPress regularly at some point. The conversations I have had on Medium have been so compelling! Perhaps my journey on Medium will...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 1, 2021 | Education, Learning, Teaching
My students and I all suffered this school year, as did millions of others. Returning to the physical classroom bolstered our spirits. We are more optimistic about school year 2021–2022 now. One of the students in the morning English class wrote, “I was mortified at...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 3, 2021 | Essays, Life
Things I have learned by living on my own. This year, I struck out on my own. I am now living in an apartment for the first time in my life. Having never rented an apartment, the experiences I have had this year have been terrifying and empowering simultaneously. The...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jun 2, 2021 | Blogging
The name of the final unit in my classroom this year is “How Will You Change the World?” I approached this with my students by saying how much I wish someone had asked me that when I was considering college and career options. I also said we needed to end...
by Heather MacCorkle | May 2, 2021 | Education, Essays, Learning, Teaching, Writing
It occurs to me that one way for students to better understand poetry is to write it. I had this epiphany this morning as I scribbled “Irrelevant.” As I was scribbling, I noticed a rhyme scheme and a pattern emerging, and they changed my thought process....
