Mistrunner

How uncouth!

Yes! And of course I have to give the example of my seventh grade history teacher. He's really into innovation, and he's the one who argued the school board into letting him get netbooks (they're little laptops) and start using MinecraftEdu in the classroom. He uses Minecraft as a learning tool. I think he's given a TED talk on the subject, actually. But the best part was the Independent Learners group. If you had good grades and were good you could get out of the group that was just taking notes on his slideshows (though he was very fun to listen to, always very active and totally engaged in what he was teaching) and be independent. The point was that he gave you the resources to learn the material for the unit and you made a way to teach it to someone. You could make a video, write a story, make a comic, illustrate the lesson, make something in Minecraft, anything as long as it got the lesson across. For the Africa unit my friend and I wrote a musical! It was so much fun, and I remember the material, because you can't write a song about something and not remember it. I'm not sure if I've gushed about him before or not, but he is undeniably my favorite teacher ever, and he taught me how fun it can be to learn things by setting me out on my own.

You're super nice, you're funny, and you like Agets of SHIELD!

I've been waiting for Ven, but I can post. I'll try to get it up by tomorrow.

I love you.Seriously, though! I've been struggling with an English assignment where we had to read a classic and make a (rather strictly formatted) brochure about it. I've made several brochures for fun, but this one just isn't working for me. I feel like I'm pounding my head against a brick wall trying to get it done. If I had ye option to do it my own way, I'd be done a week ago. The best classics I've ever read? Shakespeare. I found one on my the bookshelf in the hallway at home, I was bored, I tried it. I expected it to be boring. Shakespeare is now one of my favorite authors. When you're allowed to discover on your own, everything is so much more enjoyable. My English teacher from sixth grade loved her little five-question standardized quizzes. Even for the poetry unit. Which is absolutely bonkers because poetry is not something you can answer multiple-choice questions on. My friend went very deep with her answers. She got them wrong, because they wanted you to be superficial and interpret the poems exactly as they wanted you to. [/rant]

Truth has been spoken. Take The Outsiders. It seems to be about how senseless violence is not the answer, but it's hard to tell through all the senseless violence. I wish they'd have reading for the sake of reading sometimes. I can see why they want you to analyze stuff, though I abhor it, but a lot of people think they hate reading because all they get to read are terrible assigned reading books people decided are classics. Assign Steelheart or something. Hire real librarians to recommend books, not just aides who stick books on shelves and glower at you as they check out your books. Do something!

I leave for one day and look what happens! Okay. To summarize: Sandercon would be awesome, but the Reckoners would take over, only to be engaged in a massive battle with people speaking High Imperial. Twi's mom is needs to chill... again Morzathoth, piano isn't boring (begin obligatory pianist's rant) explosions and Chicago. Now we shall return to our regular programming. My brother read that in 8th grade for the AR points. I had his old English teacher for a sub once, and she told me how his reading logs would go. "He's still chasing that stupid whale..." I know the pains of assigned reading, though. There's some literature that was beaten so absolutely to death by English classes that I abhor it now and treat it like Voldemort. "We do not speak its name."

Upvote for hopefully making you feel better, not because I agree with them dumbos *hugs* I know what it's like to have a friend who turns out... not. It hurts. And it also hurts when people are being wimpy and ganging up on somebody who one person insulted. And you're definitely not wimpy. You're awesome. Just ask anybody around here. Now you go out there and be awesome, kay? *hugs again*

What's your favorite kind of cheese?

How is it that I can spend forty-five minutes organizing my pennies by shininess and the rest of my coins by age (all just to be dumped back into a piggy bank) but I can spend all day trying to do a very important English assignment for a large grade and it never gets done? BECAUSE THE PENNIES MUST BE ORGANIZED, WHO CARES ABOUT MY FUTURE

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! Nobody post anything good until tomorrow! I've hit my upvote quota! *sniffles*

There was a winter door decorating contest at my middle school, 7th grade. The artistic ones of the class basically had it handled, so for a double period of English when they were designing and creating it my friends and I discussed our plan for ye zombie apocalypse. We were quite thorough. I need a new one now that I'm in a different state.

Joining the group hug, then? *hug*

<hug type="squish" time="always">And Delightful, we don't steal hugs. We do group hugs! *huuuuuuuuuug*

I own the book What If. It's amazing.It answers very important questions such as: What happens when you turn a hair dryer up to ridiculous levels? What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cubes of the actual elements? And how could you get the world's population off of Rhode Island once you've got them all there?

It isn't on Netflix *sniff*, so no.

Silence! We speak the queen's English here, you impertinent little whelp! -me as the Queen of Hearts in fifth grade

So, to clarify, you are not actually Skye? However, if you are, can you give Fitz a hug for me? I think he needs it.

When the Inquisition takes on new meaning. In other news, I recently read a book where the policemen-like figures were called Inquisitors. Naturally, I was expecting them to be... different.

*hugs back* Thanks.

Welcome to the Shard! I would warn you about the Dark Alley hemalurgically spiking their welcome cookies, but there's so many alleys at this point I'm afraid to say anything. Just be wary of baked goods. Kolo? Have an introductory upvote!

Right now, I just need a hug.

Yaaay! I sense that I will be on for an unhealthy amount of time... because I'm supposed to be doing homework. Shhh. Also, I googled "Internet hat" and was not disappointed by the result.

Same. And my mom's telling me that "when she was my age she took all the babysitting jobs she could," and that she would get called up for jobs without knowing the kids at all, and is basically telling me I should get a job. Even ignoring the fact that she got paid for this, there's so much I disagree with. I mean, I can babysit, and it can be fun. But I can't just go in there without even knowing the kids' names and be fun and bubbly and whatnot.