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Amanda Edwards
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HS English teacher. Reader. healthy mind & body. Vegetarian. Traveler. Beach lover. Intersectional Feminist. BLM, Foodie. Music lover. social justice
Katılım Temmuz 2013
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yes. she knew the 6-3 vote would fuck us, so she sent it back down to the lower courts to decide.
AND she's the one who revealed that the contingency SNAP funds are gone. $5 billion has vanished due to the Executive Branch.
they stole from the poor and she told us.
Uncle Daddy Wee-Yum@MrGee54
So folks were jumping the gun on KBJ???
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@SenFettermanPA @SenMcCormickPA Country over party? Thats a weak excuse for your vote. How are those same people now going to be able to afford their health insurance in a few months? Didn’t the recent blue wave elections mean anything to you? This constituent has been very disappointed in you
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.@SenMcCormickPA and I voted to REOPEN our government.
Feed everyone.
Pay our military, government workers, and Capitol Police.
End the chaos in airports.
Country over party. 🇺🇸
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These men are heroes.
Fuck you, Donald Trump. You've given NOTHING to this country.

NewsWire@NewsWire_US
U.S. quietly removes memorial to Black WWII soldiers at Netherlands American Cemetery
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Banned words. Banned books. Banned thoughts. Enough is enough. #ArrestThePresident
POLITICO@politico
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list ow.ly/SgcE106mXon
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So, I'm teaching Fahrenheit 451 to 7th graders right now.
No screens. They read every night and are required to write 1 note per page assigned. I teach them right off they should look for "what happened" (plot development), or "something we learn about a character" or, if they spy one, a literary element like a simile, allusion or symbol.
We start class with a homework check (I walk by, check in to see if they have notes -- I'm not super picky about whether or not they have exactly one note per page, it's really just a trick to help them focus attention to the text while they read and help remind them of what they read when they get into class) and while I'm checking in on them and complimenting their work and asking questions about their day so far, they are highlighting three things from the reading that they want to discuss during class. THEY guide the discussion. As a group, they will hone in on the most important parts of the reading, which gives me an opportunity to offer nuance to what Bradbury is trying to accomplish.
I run socratic dialogues in class and they are shaking their hands to get my attention because they want to talk about Clarisse and what's-wrong-with-Mildred and that's-not-true-about-Ben-Franklin! and who-was-master-ridley? so badly.
I save "right there" questions for the shyest kids who I cold call. I have already seen the payoff in their confidence increasing and their willingness to ask clarifying questions and bring up things they notice.
They are all doing their homework. They talk about Fahrenheit in the halls. They argue about whether Clarisse is alive or dead (we're on page 45). A young man who I thought was going to be a quiet one brought up something brilliant yesterday -- he said that Montag is realizing that everything is upside down and backward in his world and it's destabilizing.
These kids are 12.
Give them great books and teach them to ask questions.
American greatness is real.
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