Britta Petersen

@oku_yungx Ok.

I need a nonchalant response to “I hate you”

@mrsdobbins_ Cressida Cowell is a great fantasy/sci-fi writer (How to Train Your Dragon). Carl Hiaasen has some great male lead characters, but girls would enjoy too. I'm reading Flush to my 3rd grade class.

I need homeschooling moms with boys to chime in here. What are we doing for read aloud that is engaging for little guys? I grew up in a house of only girls and have a daughter, so I have plenty of ideas for that but now I also need stories centered around brave men, adventure, etc.

@HannahWardEdu The Ingalls lost their baby son in WI. The family was struggling so much financially in MN a woman offered to adopt Laura. Fun fact: Laura's editor was her daughter Rose.

@HannahWardEdu Laura's books are half memoir/half fiction. She didn't stick to the real-life timelines of her family's moves and she and her editor softened parts of the hardships she wrote about in her first memoir "Pioneer Girl" for "Little House".

Where is Carrie? WHERE IS CARRIE?!

@jessibridges I always easily kept the show and the books in separate head spaces 😉 I ❤️ the books and Laura made me want to become a teacher. ABC/Disney did a tv mini series based on the actual book in 2003 that was very good!

Everyone's worried the new Little House show will depart from the story too much. But my girls are over here complaining that the original show was too different from the books and have refused to watch it past season 1. They listen to the audio books ad nauseum instead.

@milena_m43727 @SitoCinema Season 2 episode 3 is perfect for long hard days, because the disciples and Jesus had them too.

@SitoCinema He tenido días complicados y hoy precisamente una desconocida, en el paradero del bus me habló de esta serie; dice que hay mensajes bonitos

El Jesús más humano, cercano, entendible y empático de la historia que se haya visto en pantalla. Y posiblemente pese a no tener una descripción con rasgos más realistas físicamente. La imagen de Occidente de ojos azules y divino, fue una representación de arte que se popularizó.

@omgsidewalks Yes! All the time! It's seeing the movie anew!

be honest would you watch a movie you’ve already seen just to keep company with someone who hasn’t seen it yet?

@ArthurChaps Agreed, Dumbledore is human, but a pretty good and decent one. He's fallible but also full of hard earned wisdom.

Dumbledore bashing always ruins every other character too... Like wyd McGonagall hates him? She was ready to duel the ministry over him. Wyd Fawkes leaves him when Fawkes left civilization once he died never to return...

@Agentmcfly13 @ProfBZZZ And they can tell me 'the gist' of what they read, which we've been working on since day one.

@Agentmcfly13 @ProfBZZZ I'm a 3rd grade teacher, we've been working all year on reading stamina, and I'm strict on my expectations becauseI know it's going to get harder. It's paying off and my students can probably go 20 mins without stopping 🙂.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

@FixingEducation Part of the ideal number depends on your physical space, I'm at 2 classes of 14 in a rather small elem. classroom and I like it!

What is the ideal number of students in your classroom for what you teach?

@tired_cranky @fandompulse They definitely expanded my vocabulary!

@brittapeter7 @fandompulse That sounds amazing!

Brian Jacques explains why he does not have sympathetic villains in his Redwall series: "When I was a boy, morality was taught in school and in church but I think that is no longer true to the extent that it used to be. I try to create very clear moral signposts of what is right and what is wrong. The children who read my books are generally at an age where they need to have things spelled out in 'black and white,' without ambiguity. I often tell my readers that my baddies are bad and my goodies are good. I won't have sympathetic baddies and schizophrenic goodies in my books." Should more writers do this?

@AML_579 @fandompulse When it aired on PBS they had little segments on medival history and with Jacques before and after episodes.😊 They were going to adapt Mossflower next but they got cancelled 🙁

@AML_579 @fandompulse Yep, you can find it on YouTube! It was made about 2001-2003. They adapted 3 books: Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior. It's pretty good animation and voice work.

@Eddguy1 @fandompulse "Cluny the Looney or whatever the dashed fella called!" - Basil Stag Hare

@fandompulse Depends on the subject matter but it absolutely works in the Redwall series. Adored the books as a kid but in no way should General Ironbeak or Cluny the Scourge be remotely sympathetic characters. They are absolutely ruthless leaders and you love to hate them 🙂

@tired_cranky @fandompulse I'd borrow the cast recorded audiobooks from the library for summer road trips 😊

Brian was the absolute GOAT of children's lit. Just last year I went and reread about 5 of his books just for nostalgia. Those books were written more eloquently and beautifully than anything in the last 30 years and I genuinely think most college graduates couldn't read them without a thesaurus nearby. That used to be a benchmark for CHILDREN'S books. Our society is so cooked. We need another Brian Jacques.

@AML_579 @fandompulse He was pretty funny in the cartoon. Basil Stag Hare was my favorite hero.

@fandompulse I dunno. I sort of liked Cheesethief, right until he got taken out by that giant bow.

@Vivec_the_Poet @fandompulse I was late for piano lessons so many times my mom switched times because I was watching Redwall on Saturday mornings 😆 then I discovered they were books. Sad they didn't get to adapt "Mossflower", one of my favorites cuz Martin gets a healing/happy ending.

I love Redwall. I have the haziest memory of checking out one of the books in elementary school (one of the badgers was the main character), but I religiously watched the cartoon when it was on Teletoon and PBS. But obviously this shouldn't be the sole acceptable baseline for all fiction.

@Marky_X_ @fandompulse I loved the Canadian animated adaptation that ran on PBS. It's how I was introduced to Redwall, especially as I was a little intimidated by the amount of words/pages of the books as an 8 yr old. By 9/10 I was devouring them!

@fandompulse He was never subtle about this. His villains were specific species for a reason. Underrated author tbh. In a just world, Red Wall would be getting the hits instead of Harry Potter

@anenglishteachr Definitely have to explicitly teach half my students to slow down and read the instructions, and the other half I have to cue to start working 😆🤷‍♀️

Question for the veteran teachers: I've been teaching for just about 9 years now and something I see with most of my students is that they don't read instructions before they ask for help / clarification and they need to have EVERYTHING explained to them, even the most simple things I basically can't assume they'll figure anything out (even simple instructions) and have to hold their hands through just about everything Is this more prevalent now compared to, lets say 20 years ago, or has it always been this way?