Happy March 25th, the date of the destruction of the One Ring and the Downfall of Sauron and Barad-dûr! "The realm of Sauron is ended!" said Gandalf. "The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest."

“The world in indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

This B Block. Three fourths of the way through their third novel of the semester…of an elective course! They Read and Work HARD Everyday! Completing a “Sixer” for Looking for Alaska! #mybblockisbetterthanyourbblock #Facts

Great Banned Book Club Meeting today! Awesome conversation about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian! Read the book! Join the conversation!

My B Block. Have I mentioned them? Parting words…in Morse’s Old Code. If you don’t know Looking For Alaska and the reference…do you even read? Books? Books kids like to read? They read the books and Do the Work. Everyday. #facts

The students advocated for & sponsored our first annual “mental health field day,” it was an amazing day filled with old school fun 😎 Proud is an UNDERSTATEMENT!! View here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBuJww WH__Super WHRHS School Counseling Christopher Jones Active Minds

Outnumbered at least 6 to 1, the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry suffered 82% casualties when they heroically charged headlong into enemy forces to shore up a gap in Union lines during the Battle of Gettysburg on this date in 1863. The role these brave Minnesotans played in

This book man… Read this book, “The He-Man Effect; How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood” by Brian Brown. The corporations are not on our side…

B Block! Public Speaking. Yes, you get to get up in front of your classmates and introduce yourself! Right now. In Class! 3 Things we should know 2 Things you do well 1 Character from fiction that reminds you of YOU! My B Block is better than your B Block! (Hashtagfacts)

C Block Teen Lit These kids kill it everyday! Reading Anderson’s masterpiece, Speak. Signposts, conversations, authentic connections to the literature. Cramming 62 minutes of work into 40 minutes of class time. Done. My C Block is better than your C Block. Hashtag FACTS

Few words are more frequently heard in the Pentagon than “strategy.” In the Navy corridors, this becomes “maritime strategy.” However, it is arguable that the United States has had only three effective maritime strategies in its history. bit.ly/4d2XIIV

Teen Lit, Library Day! Reading Anderson’s masterpiece, Speak! Frog Juice and IT, both colossal literary moments! HashtagmyCBlockisBetterthanYours

Teen lit! C Block, still crushing IT! (Yes Andy Evans showed up in the novel.) If you don’t know IT do you even read the books teens read? #myCblockisbetterthanyours

Teen Lit Two, aka TLT. A possibility! And the possibilities! Some modern classics and hmm… Maybe some recent hot off the presses home runs (if we can’t mix metaphors, am I right?!)

Room 360 for the WIN! Definitely better than Lunchroom Learning! Teen Lit collaboration teams And ELA make-up work and writing laboratory #myWINisbetterthanyours

Let’s Talk About C Blocks Or, How Much Does My C Block Rock. That wasn’t a question. These kids kill it all day! (But, but they’re on their phones…they’re editing their collaborative podcasts on the novel, Speak)! #myCblockisBEST

C Blocks? Let’s talk C Blocks. My C Block is better than yours. Objectively. 2nd novel of the quarter! Nic Stone’s colossal Dear Martin! Students selected historical “pen pals”…connecting to the literature and all that “good stuff”.

Useful read here… I Helped the Army Remember Its Values. I Wish I Could Do the Same for the Country. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

I found this novel to be superb! Mostly based on the author’s life growing up in mid 20th century South Africa!

p.s. I have changed my mind 180 degrees on this issue and had bought into the "what if there is a school shooter" argument. Then I looked at the data. We should ban phones in classrooms, says this expert who knows somethig about school shootings.