Wednesday, April 5, 2023
No Sweatshirts
If I had to guess, I would say about 10% of the students at my school during sophomore year would wear sweatshirts throughout the day. That wouldn't be a big deal in a public school. In a private school setting with a suit and tie dress code, it was. The daily bulletin ended up stating no...
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Sunday, April 2, 2023
Mr. Hopps: Lecturer
Now is the same I discuss how lecture went during sophomore English. Mr. Dell and Mr. Mittens were holdovers from the prior year. That leaves Mr. Hopps and Mrs. Parsley as the two. I'll focus on Mr. Hopps today. Mr. Hopps was a good lecturer. He was direct and to the point. There wasn't much in the...
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Sunday, March 26, 2023
Poetry Time
For a term, we did poetry in Mr. Hopps' class. I hated it. My second biggest problem with poetry units was interpreting poems. I would tend to take metaphors literally and not understand allusions. Trying to pick out the different things used in poetry was tricky to me. What was the bigger problem...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
I Wanted to Be Home
I was not a fan of overnight fieldtrips when I was in school. I wanted to be home. I wanted to avail myself to Mom's cooking, my television and video game options and my bed. My bed was the most important. As someone who struggled mightily with sleep, I shuddered at the thought of being up all...
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
Caught
Ryan Hundley was a classmate of mine in Mr. Hopps' sophomore English class. I didn't have any interaction with Ryan. There was an event that of which stood out in my mind about him. In the college lecture setting, we had different seating for tests. There were two lecture halls. During non-test...
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