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Poetry Wednesdays: Hafiz, “We Should Talk About This Problem”
We Should Talk about This Problem Hafiz There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Beside your soft earthen mounds,...
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How to Date a Teacher
How to Date a Teacher Some pro tips from a teacher who is dating a teacher. His second home. If you’re a student, especially of this teacher, stop reading right now and move on to better things, i.e....
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Fashion Fridays for Teachers
I’m going to do something I’m not used to doing, ever, and that is to fashion-blog. This is done mostly for posterity’s sake, but if you think it can help you rethink your teacher-clothes, then that’s...
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The Things My Teachers Did
I have a few role models when it comes to teaching in basic education. I remember a teacher, Ms. Pramoso, who made me understand metaphors and poetry when she taught Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 to my third...
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Fashion Fridays for Teachers #2
Just four teachers on a Friday. Part of being a teacher these days, I think, is transcending the stereotype: being less like the teacher with frizzy hair, uncoordinated makeup and chipped nail polish,...
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Fashion Fridays for Teachers #3
It’s our sem break, so I’m using the free time to read and catch up on those blog posts I haven’t gotten around to write. It’s been a strange week since I received news that I’m to travel in the next...
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A one-act play fest for high school
In the past few weeks, my English classes and I had been doing something I’m extremely proud of – we mounted their original dramatic pieces during our One-Act Play Festival last November 12 and 13....
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This week’s lesson: The fragments of Sappho, “completed”
Sappho. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. For a quick lesson on Sappho and lyric poetry, I asked my World Literature (third year high school) students to continue writing what may have been lost in the...
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