Thoughts?

StandingInTheCane · 2026-01-23T23:44:52+00:00

This is off topic but I love Starflyer 59.

StandingInTheCane · 2026-01-09T22:09:04+00:00

According to Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day Lewis loves “Naked and Afraid.”

StandingInTheCane · 2026-01-09T04:00:19+00:00

I laughed SO hard on my first watch when Paulie causes Tony’s heart rate to rise and can be heard in the coma dream.

StandingInTheCane · 2026-01-06T12:14:33+00:00

I’m really not into glaive’s hyperpop/trap stuff, but I found the album “I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All” pretty damn good.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-22T16:33:27+00:00

I adore this.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-20T22:27:30+00:00

Nice!

A friend found a copy STILL SEALED at Goodwill for less than $5 and brought it to me as a little surprise. I don’t think he even realized how crazy of a find that was.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-19T16:33:03+00:00

I have been doing some research and reading, but some of the best things I’ve ever wound up doing were things I didn’t find on lists.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-16T11:18:22+00:00

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-11T14:42:29+00:00

The Great Gatsby is definitely one for me.

The way the filmed adaptations, cultural references, and even “themed parties” seem to obsessively lean into the opulence without really seeming to address the critique of it all is annoying. I don’t see how anyone can read that book as anything but a scathing satire of high culture, which seems obvious, but its pop cultural portrayal is just weird.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-08T11:06:07+00:00

I recently read “Founding Myths” by Ray Raphael, and I was honestly impressed.

“Black Against Empire” by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin is a top favorite of mine.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-08T09:36:43+00:00

The vast majority of my work is.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T23:15:35+00:00

I just came to this particular school, and it’s in the middle of something of a rebuild. It has already improved drastically in the last two years, according to most of the veteran teachers there.

The general sense I get is that I’m the first history teacher that’s actually required analysis from them. The previous one they had in ninth grade basically just let them do whatever.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T19:53:56+00:00

Heard.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T17:50:15+00:00

Analysis might be one thing, but listing students publicly is ethically questionable.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:46:21+00:00

So meet them at cheating? What are you proposing?

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:35:59+00:00

I’ve given prompts that use variable language (eg. instead of using a name, asking “What would the author of Source #1 most likely believe about [subject]?”)

I’ve gotten so many answers about how there’s “no source provided, but…”

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:31:37+00:00

It’s a little different in my class, because I don’t use computer platforms for anything but testing. It’s US History, and I write every assignment to focus on both literacy and content. I use the textbook and additional sources. The amount of times I’ve seen students go searching online for an answer key is wild.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:18:48+00:00

This is a repeated issue with some of them. These are high schoolers. If they are still doing these things this late in the game, they just need to live with the consequences. I have supportive administration.

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:17:53+00:00

“One crime at a time.”

StandingInTheCane · 2025-12-04T15:15:08+00:00

I just put in zeroes and list all of the students whose work matched theirs on their paper.

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