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190727 | 7:45 p.m.

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🎧 : Best of Me - JOHN.k

Accomplishments

Worked on homework for 3 hours

Completed Latin America Studies unit 3

Started Psychology unit 2 and finished two sections

gregor-samsung

“Zaphod burst out in annoyance: “Who are they Trillian?” Trillian span her seat round to face him and shrugged. “Just a couple of guys we seem to have picked up in open space,” she said. “Section ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.” “Yeah, well that’s a very sweet thought Trillian,” complained Zaphod, “but do you really think it’s wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitch hikers. OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?” He tapped irritably at a control panel. Trillian quietly moved his hand before he tapped anything important. Whatever Zaphod’s qualities of mind might include - dash, bravado, conceit - he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture. Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. “Zaphod,” she said patiently, “they were floating unprotected in open space… you wouldn’t want them to have died would you?” “Well, you know… no. Not as such, but…” “Not as such? Not die as such? But?” Trillian cocked her head on one side. “Well, maybe someone else might have picked them up later.” “A second later and they would have been dead.” “Yeah, so if you’d taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away.” “You’d been happy to let them die?” “Well, you know, not happy as such, but…” “Anyway,” said Trillian, turning back to the controls, “I didn’t pick them up.” “What do you mean? Who picked them up then?” “The ship did.” “Huh?” “The ship did. All by itself.” “Huh?” “Whilst we were in Improbability Drive.” “But that’s incredible.” “No Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.” “Look Zaphod,” she said, patting his arm, “don’t worry about the aliens. They’re just a couple of guys I expect. I’ll send the robot down to get them and bring them up here. Hey Marvin!””

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 1st edition 1979.

life-in-marigold

Got some books ready for YALC in a few days! Plus some more that I picked up over the week.

historygirl

2 / 100 Days of Productivity:

made notes on James I’s financial problems for my summer task

learnt some new chinese vocab

(via Best New YA (Young Adult) Novels)

#young adult #ya #novels #books #bookblr #booknerd #yabooks #yanovels #teenfiction

teachingtranshistory

High School English Lesson Guide

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this lesson plan is to use memoirs written by trans authors to examine the importance of language and voice. Additionally, students will leave this lesson with a understanding that everything written is situated in the circumstances it was written, we cannot separate the history of the author from the author’s work.

TEXT

For this lesson plan we will be using the memoir Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews. This 2014 memoir was published the same year Arin graduated from high school and focuses on Arin’s experience coming out as a trans man, both to himself and others. This book serves as a great introduction to trans voices, trans experiences, and trans terminology. Written by a high schooler, this book has the potential to connect with students in a more authentic way.

GUIDE

Since this text is a bit long (almost 300 pages), I think it best to split the book across at least two weeks of instruction. However before we begin actually reading the book, it’s important to first establish classroom norms since talking about the trans community requires empathy, understanding, and delicacy. Additionally, I suggest teachers start the unit by creating a trans timeline with their students, based on existing knowledge of the trans community. So without using technology, as a class come up with a timeline or word cloud of the trans community. This will set up one of the WHY’s for reading this text as this text can serve to illuminate new things about this community.

Once the book has been introduced and assigned, one should open the class with a discussion of the last things we read — think of it as a form of book club. We want to see what the students are getting out of this book and if we need to direct them to look for more things in the text. That is, we want to see what the students are learning about Arin’s story and how it relates to our objectives. Are the students seeing how Arin’s voice helps to guide and frame the story? Are the students seeing how Arin’s experience is happening this way because of the circumstances of his life? Are the students connecting with Arin, regardless of gender identity?

As necessary pull in other texts or excerpts that can shine light on our objectives. Perhaps pull excerpts from a trans memoir written by someone older to serve as a point of comparison for Arin’s voice and style. Or perhaps pull excerpts from Rethinking Normal (a memoir written by Katie Hill, Arin’s girlfriend, who writes about her experiences as a trans women) as another point of comparison for Arin’s voice.

Additionally, I would suggest bringing in outside material to help situate Arin as a trans man. This would involve bringing in some events in trans history. Perhaps talk about Magnus Hirschfeld and how his groundbreaking work on trans people was burned by Nazi bookburners. Or perhaps bring in articles about trans celebrities, both contemporary and historical (such as Christine Jorgensen and Caitlyn Jenner) to talk about how trans lives are sensationalized and ogled. Work, throughout the unit, to fill in the blanks that presented themselves in the opening activity.

Once the class has completed the text, introduce an assignment of writing one’s own memoir essay. This assignment will help the students understand the importance of voice by encouraging them to find their own voice and their own story. Additionally, this assignment will hopefully give the students tools that will help them write personal statements for colleges and scholarship committees. To assist in writing, I suggest pulling memoir essays, interviews, podcasts from people across a variety of identities and with different voices to give the students guides and inspirations for writing their own text. The assignment itself will be short (3-5 pages) but will serve as a conclusion to this unit.

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#ya #young adult #novels #ya novels #sebastien de castell #matthew reilly

emmaisreadingalot

Day 11/100 of productivity

7.1.19

I have my midterm tomorrow but here’s my half-finished spread for this week! Does anybody have any quote ideas that they think would fit? :)

timelyreminder

Move!

• Stretch your arms/legs a bit • Take a break from the screen for at least 30 seconds • Get up and move around, just for a few minutes • Sit up straight and move to a position which allows you to maintain your posture

Happy scrolling!