Here, Nate

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

here’s your fileNate’s stuff

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Can I borrow your pickup? Moving Day Adventures

Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

I hate moving and while I like my apartment and am happy to stay there until our family can afford to buy a house (and we can’t afford a house, no matter what the real estate agents say about interest rates), I would probably be willing to stay there for a couple years even if [...]

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“Minister’s Black Veil” Reactions

Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

Like usual, if you get a chance to push your thinking, you reveal great insight. Here is a batch of noteworthy comments on “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
Emmerz points out that the Minister carries secrets, even as he makes his point.
Also read Bumblebee, LemurLover, pretzelpocketz, punchdrunklove, and jean2008
On a related note, I read this [...]

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Our Masks

Posted on February 13th, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

Now that you have thoroughly picked through “The Minister’s Black Veil” and discovered Nathaniel Hawthorne’s expression against secret sin, please move to the third level of reading, considering if Hawthorne is right - if he describes what you believe to be an accurate depiction of life, and if you think it is accurate, whether you [...]

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To my students: Observations of You

Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

Periodically in my teaching I ask a question I don’t really want to ask. That is, sometimes I go ahead and start the no-penalty conversation, where students can speak freely and not worry about their comments hurting their grades. These conversations are where I learn the truth about your habits. It’s how I know that [...]

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Taking Responsibility

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

A thought about me and my students taking responsibility for our actions.
 Podcast

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Provenzo and the Myths of Education

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

Once again, Provenzo generates a great deal of reaction from me, and I’m not totally sure why, though I think it may have something to do with my classic reaction against anything that attempts to summarize grand schemes of time or anything that acts like what is going on now is new. I’m a huge [...]

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More Excellent Articles about books

Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

Wow - you guys are smart and insightful!
Here are links to some articles about books that thoroughly impressed me.
Setting
Bumblebee reading My Sister’s Keeper
Plot
Nick examines the key external conflict from Bleachers.
Miscalaneous thoughts
Bumblebee on My Sister’s Keeper
Sparkygrl looks at the significance of the point of view in Cold Mountain
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Original image: ‘Big Sis Reads‘
www.flickr.com/photos/45889748@N00/32485879
by: Emily Walker
Released under an [...]

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Essays - a reaction

Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

And now . . . we will write an essay
And the student’s stomach twisted to a shape I saw in a modern art book.
Talk to me about essays - what do you think about them, what do you know about them, how often do you have to write them, and how good at them are [...]

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Closed Chat Rooms

Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Mr. Sheehy

So I’m jumping through hoops using Google docs with my kids, having them use it to type questions in so their peers can answer the questions as we read, when a kid says to me, “so what is this? a chat room?” And I realized, yes, that is what I turned it into - a [...]

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