teaching english with good intentions and some reblogsTumblr (3.0; @teachering)http://teachering.tumblr.com/<a href="http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/28840501495/in-defense-of-symbolism">John Green's tumblr: In Defense of Symbolism</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/28840501495/in-defense-of-symbolism">fishingboatproceeds</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(I thought I’d post this here as well as the <a href="http://onlyifyoufinishedpapertowns.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Paper Towns Q&A blog</a>. It contains no spoilers. Thanks to <a href="http://4everyurs.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tamar</a> for making it possible for me to post this publicly.)</p> <p>Where did the strings metaphor inPaper Towns come from?</p> <div class="TextPost"> <div class="TextPostBody"> <p>Someone said it to me once, after a friend had attempted suicide,…</p> </div> </div> </blockquote>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/38335185734http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/38335185734Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:55:58 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu91yicwxr1qd4lcqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>teacher-appropriate… in some schools.</p>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12926038485http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12926038485Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:08:05 -0500teachpropriate thursday<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4pfjMBIQ1qgninyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>teacher-appropriate blouse!</p>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12601954134http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12601954134Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:46:06 -0500teachpropriateteachpropriate thursday<a href="http://mythologyofblue.tumblr.com/post/12502663147/how-to-dismember-a-poem-part-1-very-like-a-whale">Mythology of Blue: How to Dismember a Poem, Part 1: Very Like a Whale</a>: <p><a href="http://mythologyofblue.tumblr.com/post/12502663147/how-to-dismember-a-poem-part-1-very-like-a-whale">mythologyofblue</a>:</p> <blockquote>The present is all around me, dreams, a panoply of crimes, smudges of erasure, <p>memory made of clouds.</p> <p>Spelling out the phrase</p> <em>very like a whale.</em> I seem to wake and sleep ambiguously, to see and misconceive, to feel on the brink of something that doesn’t end. <br/>Blunt heads of rain, faithless…</blockquote>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12554931204http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12554931204Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:15:06 -0500poem of the weekwhat is a simile?<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt4nnr0GMu1qa7lizo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://neutral-milk-hostel.tumblr.com/post/11495275653/sketch-of-william-butler-yeats-by-john-singer">neutral-milk-hostel</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>sketch of William Butler Yeats, by John Singer Sargeant</p> </blockquote> <p><span>meanwhile we’re saying goodbye to Yeats for now. see you in a few months, Yeats, just in time, I was actually getting sick of your snooty demand for the perfect audience and the class was falling out of love with you.</span></p>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12534461199http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12534461199Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:30:00 -0500william butler yeatspoetryauthor portraits<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:677679/cp~id%3D1651481%26vid%3D677679%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A677679" width="400" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="." flashvars=""></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://handclaps.tumblr.com/post/8718950220/iliketodisco-phalange-folkinz-best-coast-our">handclaps</a>:<a href="http://iliketodisco.tumblr.com/post/8654425490">iliketodisco</a>:<a href="http://phalange.tumblr.com/post/8654217232">phalange</a>:<a href="http://folkinz.tumblr.com/post/8388488646">folkinz</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><strong>Best Coast: Our Deal</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Directed by Drew Barrymore. Starring Chloe Moretz, Alia Shawkat, Miranda Cosgrove, MTV’s Teen Wolf, and Donald Glover.</p> </blockquote> <p>finally starting Romeo and Juliet tomorrow. only been sitting on this since August!!!</p>http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12533929605http://teachering.tumblr.com/post/12533929605Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:19:00 -0500shakespeare