by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 26, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Life, Teaching
Has Anyone Thought about the “Bio Break”? There isn’t going to be a bike monologue to go with this post. Since I’m curious, I am asking readers: Do you actually like the bike monologues or should I skip them? In today’s post, I pose a practical question that has been...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Life, Teaching
Today’s bike monologue video is my second attempt to create the video today. The first time around, I went down a rabbit hole about not intending to assault feminism and defend the literary canon of dead white males. Feel free to contact me if you would like to hear...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 22, 2020 | Education, Learning, Life, Teaching
Bike Monologue 2 – July 22, 2020 The first four miles of today’s bike ride was devoted to discussing alternative assignments and assessments; helping students learn how to question themselves, each other, and the world around them; and some flowery comments...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jun 2, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Life, Teaching
Image Credit: Posted by Michelle Argo Parker, an AP® Literature teacher in Minneapolis One of Mrs. Parker’s students created this peaceful protest message using apropos quotes from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. This is why I, and thousands of my colleagues, teach...
by Heather MacCorkle | Apr 18, 2020 | Education, Learning, Life, Teaching
This post could have been entitled “5 ways…” or “10 ways…” or maybe even “100 ways,” but the power of three is strong. It craves concision. It requires streamlined thought. It also makes it more difficult to write, but that’s a different post. Before...
by Heather MacCorkle | Apr 11, 2020 | Education, Learning, Life
We study literature to study the human condition. We engage in conversation with a text, with its context, to understand where we were within our reality, or to understand where we may be going within our reality. Readers cannot escape their reality; indeed, they...
