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HS English teacher; #CanonChat ; Jane Austen and Van Halen enthusiast; Catholic; Hockey fan; Politically Homeless; Teach diverse books and defend the canon

Massachusetts, USA

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Matt Ryan 🟦 #CanonChat 📕: War and Peace

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24 days

#CanonChat is reading War and Peace this summer. We've only read Volume 1 at this point, so there is *plenty* of book left for you to read and come aboard! Check out the website for a bunch of helpful resources. And if you have any questions, please ask!

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Prince Harry won life.

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The country's press used every opportunity to sling mud at this woman, & she still showed up & DAZZLED. In what must feel like a pressure cooker for her, Meghan was more at ease than some who the media regularly uplifts. Poise, elegance & grace personified, The Duchess of Sussex.

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I started teaching 25 years ago. I'm not sure of many things. But one thing I am sure of is that students aren't reading anywhere near the number of books they once did. And I'm also sure this is a bad thing.

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I've been teaching in a mask since July 2020. Pardon me if I'm extra giddy that I'm down to two more days.

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In the classroom I don’t tell my students where I stand on the political spectrum. I don’t tell them who I’ve voted for or who I will vote for. Why? Because I’m not the subject of the class.

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I just call tests "quizzes" and the stress level for my students drops by half.

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I’ve been teaching in-person since August. I’ve been present every school day (except one). I’ve had lunch in my classroom every day with students. (I’ll miss this next year!) We’ve had extracurricular clubs and sports. So when I hear that this can’t be done, I get frustrated.

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Teachers: Do you consider the teachers you follow and interact with on Twitter to be colleagues? I do.

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3 years

We have students entering second and third grade unable to read or write. Don’t tell me learning loss isn’t real. You can drop the quotation marks. So how do we support elementary and middle school teachers get students back on track?

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2 years

A whole class reading the same book, with a teacher modeling how to critically read the text, is a more effective model than book clubs and individual choice reads.

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I’m not a math teacher, but I don’t understand why memorizing times tables isn’t a necessity. I’m pretty sure I use this skill every day. I’m not sure what I’d do without it. Any math teacher care to explain why students shouldn’t memorize times tables?

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The booster landed my healthy wife into the hospital for four days. She’s home now, buy a road to recovery lies ahead.

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4 years

Unpopular opinion here, but textbooks can be mighty helpful.

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2 months

After we read Elie Wiesel's "Night," we watched Oprah's interview with Wiesel at Auschwitz. Easily the most serious my freshmen have been all year. I imagine they will not soon forget Wiesel's words.

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4 years

Why is it that PD seems so rarely to focus on building content knowledge? Seems overwhelmingly about pedagogy.

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2 years

Schools cannot claim to be partners with parents in the education of children if they are withholding information about children from their parents.

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3 years

The teachers removing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are practicing and endorsing censorship. Teachers—especially English teachers and librarians—should be standing against book banning and censorship.

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3 years

In-school transmission of COVID from September to February in my city’s school is zero cases.

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This is the time of year when I find myself thinking regularly about the next school year. Do other teachers do this?

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2 years

If you were hiring a teacher, what is the top criteria you would look for? For me it would be that they are a reader.

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3 years

Does anyone think that parents who oppose masks mandates want their children to get sick?

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I don’t begrudge teachers their unions. My biggest issue has always been over their claim that “it’s about the kids.” Because it’s not true. And the response by the unions to efforts to get students back in classrooms make this perfectly clear.

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If I were hiring a high school English teacher, one of the top criteria I would look for would be that they are a reader.

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For the first time in my career, the majority of my freshmen couldn’t comprehend “The Cask of Amontillado,” even with annotations throughout. It’s concerning.

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3 years

I’m fat. Being fat is not healthy. I’m setting a bad example for my own children. I will try in 2022 to not be fat. I will likely be unsuccessful. But I will try.

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I really can’t escape the fact that some people simply don’t want school buildings to reopen.

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3 years

A reminder that many schools were in-person for the entirety for the last school year.

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3 years

“Kids need to be in school.” Thank you, @MassGovernor .

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5 months

My sophomores are reading eleven full-length books this year. I tell them that they will be more prepared than nearly all of their classmates in college.

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This was the most astonishing thing about teaching freshmen at Cornell this fall: students who had never read anything longer than a reading comprehension excerpt for the SAT.

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3 years

When parents talk about schools being closed, can we drop the semantic response that schools aren’t closed? We know they mean buildings. And we know they mean buildings because parents have been making all sorts of accommodations in order to make virtual learning work.

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If students graduate high school having read mostly high interest, low-level books and they haven’t learned to grapple with more complex books, we’ve let them down.

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How in the world are we *still* arguing over whether schools should be open? Please tell me we won’t be having this discussion in the fall.

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I empathize with those who feel anxiety and fear about Covid. But I’m also concerned of about the “THE KIDS ARE GOING TO DIE!” alarmism coming from some of us. This isn’t healthy and I cannot imagine how it won’t negatively affect our students.

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Grocery store checkout clerks are at significantly more risk than I am as a teacher. Feel free to criticize my profession. We deserve some criticism.

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1 year

Please stop teaching The Odyssey, The Scarlet Letter and Gatsby. It’s 2023. The students won’t read books that are irrelevant to their lives. And let’s be frank—these books aren’t very good, like most classics. Honestly, if they’re reading their Instagram feeds, they’re reading.

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Currently reading with my sophomores. One of the most powerful works that I’ve ever read. If ever there were a mandatory book for high school students to read, this may be the one.

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3 years

What authors have you read every book they’ve written?

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2 years

I love teaching and I love being a teacher.

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4 years

I’m a teacher who follows mostly teachers. Therefore my perspective may be off. So I ask- Do people in any other professions get so damn sensitive to the slightest critique of their work?

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Last year my students all wore their masks properly. This year, approximately 20% of them wear them covering their noses. Why? They didn't wear them all summer. They don't wear them anywhere else. And the fear of covid is gone. We've had very few cases and zero spread in school.

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3 years

It's okay to reject the "If you criticize teachers unions, you're not supporting teachers" line of argument.

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3 years

Why are we teaching Shakespeare when young people don’t know how to use can-openers?

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5 months

𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘁: Make your students read. Force your students to read. Compel your students to read. Require that your students read. Demand that your students read. Check that your students are reading. Enforce that your students are reading.

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3 years

School in person since August. Youth hockey since September (with a two week break). I can be done. It *is* begin done.

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3 years

This fall at school, I really hope masks are optional for students.

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2 years

I was reading Chapter 2 of "The Scarlet Letter" with my students and one of them exclaims, "Are they slut-shaming her?" Yes!

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“The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” This is so disheartening.

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I’m tired of the “we were never taught this in school” refrain. School can’t teach us everything. And often it’s better to dig deeper into fewer topics, ultimately leaving things out. But luckily, we can continue to learn after (and during) our formal education.

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2 years

@FavoriteTeach11 @MrDanielBuck The real answer, I believe, is that some teachers are paid enough and some aren’t paid enough. Talking about teacher pay in the general makes little sense because compensation varies widely from district to district.

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3 years

Desks now at three feet; data shows no difference in numbers between 3-ft and 6-fit spacing. Ready to go!

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Just being honest: I’d be very concerned about my children having an teacher who has been overly negative on social media. Will that seep into the classroom?

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@JoshPhillipsPhD Students must be held accountable for their reading. If they're not, nearly all won't read.

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3 years

My MA in English I worked for. Big time. And it made me better. My MEd was a breeze. I remember virtually nothing and it didn’t make me better. Anyone have a similar experience?

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My final assignment every year asks my students to record podcasts discussing their relationship with reading after taking the course. I’m listening to all these teens brilliantly discuss great works of literature and it’s bringing me to tears with happiness.

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3 years

Just read someone who said that children don’t owe their parents anything at all and it blew my mind. I’d say children of (good) parents owe them respect, assistance when asked, time, honesty, privacy, and probably many other things.

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For those who are worried about teaching in-person, I empathize. I hope you’ll find yourself quickly adapting and feeling like you haven’t missed a beat. I’ve been in-person every day since August. It all feels very normal now, which is comforting. You can do it!

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Schools cannot claim to be partners with parents in the education of children if they are withholding information about children from their parents.

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2 years

Remove the masks. Return the books.

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1 year

It’s not incompatible to support teachers (or be a teacher) while holding a philosophical opposition to teachers unions.

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This is how I get my students to read. The quizzes ensure that they have to read. By the end of the school year, each of my students will have read nearly 3000 pages (11 texts) of assigned reading. This is @erickalenze 's method as well.

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College students who are considering a career in education: Don’t be discouraged because of social media noise. Visit schools—multiple schools—and observe. Find places where you could see yourself working. Teaching can be the best job in the world.

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High school teachers need to *make* students read. I know we want to inspire them to read. I know we want them to love to read. But ultimately, we’ve got to make them do it, just like we make them practice skills in other classes.

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may be true but every English professor will confirm that students just cannot/will not read long novels today--by "long" meaning anything beyond "The Great Gatsby."

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What are your top tips for students to improve their writing style? Here are mine: 1) Favor the active voice 2) Avoid overusing "to be" verbs 3) Clarify ambiguous pronouns, especially "this, "that," "which," & "it" 4) Vary sentence openers 5) Use transitional words throughout

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Regardless of how I feel about censorship and book bans, one thing that continues to surprise me is the low quality books that apparently are being taught in schools.

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4 years

To my relief, today I learned that real discussions can take place when half of the students are in the classroom in the other half are on Zoom.

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“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” is a great pairing with “The Great Gatsby.” One of my great frustrations is that too many students think that “Gatsby” is representative of American society in the 1920s. “Brooklyn” helps to correct this misconception.

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3 years

Third week into the school year. Currently zero students and staff with positive Covid cases.

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My students' ratings of the works we studied this year.

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Watching my wife teaching second graders online and understanding that I couldn't do for 30 minutes what she does every day.

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No, the classic book you don’t like isn’t garbage. You just don’t like it. And that’s fine. Everyone has different tastes. But the book isn’t garbage.

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I don’t accept the philosophy that “it doesn’t matter what they read as long as they are reading.” I owe my students more than that.

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Are we seriously *still* arguing over whether schools should be open?

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3 years

Where does this 1 in 4 figure come from? Is there a source?

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My second semester in American Lit: - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Narrative of… Frederick Douglass - Huckleberry Finn - Fences - Home (T. Morrison) - East of Eden And I get *paid* to do this!

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2 years

Wait. Some teachers don’t have school next week? 😦

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I’ve found that what distinguishes the great teachers from the good is content knowledge.

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I’ve recently read on here that all teachers are exhausted, that all teachers are angry, and that all teachers are in trauma. Kindly, please don’t do this.

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I'm trying not to be cynical here but it's hard not to conclude that a small number of folks don't want masks to ever come off kids in school.

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When you order a used book (“Good” condition) from @AbeBooks and you receive the book... and it’s a signed first edition first printing!?! #WinningLife

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I can be done. The question is whether it should be done. And that question is best answered locally, involving all parties.

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“Indoctrinated” is a purposely inflammatory word. But will any teacher deny that we can strongly influence how our students think about a topic?

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Controversial opinion: I want English teachers who in the classroom value anaphora and Borges over anime and Beyoncé.

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“If we want every child to be literate and to participate fully in American life, we must ensure all have access to the broad body of knowledge that the literate take for granted.” A must-read from @rpondiscio .

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I just looked at what I taught my first year teaching Brit Lit. Imagine this: Beowulf Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Faerie Queene Taming of the Shrew Hamlet Doctor Faustus Paradise Lost Moll Flanders Gulliver's Travels Return of the Native Wuthering Heights Picture of Dorian Gray

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My school: 1,100 students, two positive cases since August. We’ve made it to Thanksgiving!

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#MemorialDay

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I see that Woody Allen is trending. He is one of my favorite filmmakers and all the vile comments about him come from deeply uninformed and mean-spirited individuals.

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@esanzi @thomaschattwill On another note, I'm struck by the repeated use of "discussed"/"discussion." Something tells me that the discussion wasn't really an exchange of ideas.

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1100 students, 2 students Covid positive, zero in close contact quarantine. Zero teachers and staff positive or in quarantine. We’re doing it. I hope many of your schools are able to as well.

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@MichaelEMann @Marriott You could always look to the left or to the right where there are TVs tuned to different channels. Must you vet what other guests are able to watch?

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My dad is a skilled woodcarver who typically carves realistic birds. But I commissioned him to carve a whale for me, inspired by Moby Dick. It’s not white, but I love it.

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Coloring isn't a legitimate alternative to writing in English class.

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We've been in-person every day since August, but with two rotating cohorts. As I rearranged my room to prepare for 100% return, I'm excited thinking about having both groups together for the final stretch.

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Having a classroom that is free of political ideologies, one that just focuses on writing and close reading, is a gift.

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Anyone want to share your #TenFavoriteNovels ? Here are mine: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Anna Karenina Beloved Disgrace East of Eden The French Lieutenant’s Woman Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Station Eleven The Sun Also Rises

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Students are not our therapists. They don’t need to hear about our sufferings. And they certainly don’t need to be told how they’re supposed to feel. If folks are struggling, I pray that they get the assistance they need. But we can’t burden our students.

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Can we dispel with the myth that classic books are less relevant than contemporary novels?

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Looking at my shelves I’m often paralyzed with anxiety at all that I haven’t read yet. It’s crazy to think I will never be able to read everything I want to. I also have many blind spots. Anyone else feel overwhelmed like this?

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Read and teach great books, both classic and contemporary.

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Call me crazy, but maybe a top priority of English teachers should be to teach students how to write solid sentences.

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New student today: “I heard that your reading quizzes are impossible to pass if you don’t read or only use Shmoop.” Me: That’s correct. Establish a standard, students spread the word, and the rest takes care of itself.

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