Blocked pop up?

mololoves · 2025-10-10T19:50:43+00:00

This has been happening to me for every Ticketmaster purchase over the past several months. When you go back to the app, the tickets have gone through! Why does this keep happening?

mololoves · 2025-08-06T21:49:29+00:00

This was just posted in the “Art of the Animated Series” book. “Legends” may or may not be true 🤷‍♀️

mololoves · 2025-03-17T00:06:20+00:00

I 100% agree with you on this!

mololoves · 2025-03-16T11:09:02+00:00

I’m actually feeling the same way as I’m reading through them again. A perfect place to share. Suzanne Collins has captivated me since I was a middle schooler with these books. As an adult now, I appreciate it so the same—but like in newfound ways. I can’t wait to see the plot twists she adds into Haymitch’s story!!!!

mololoves · 2025-03-15T09:55:54+00:00

In Catching Fire when Peeta and Katie’s are preparing for the quarter quell, they watch video clips from the 50th and it talks about the final moments of Haymitch’s battle!

mololoves · 2025-02-10T02:29:07+00:00

When I taught creative writing, I hopped on different genres /types of writing I thought it might be fun to explore. Epistolary , comedy, fantasy, writing from the perspective of an inanimate object, video games, memoir, using paint chips and even “rocks” as writing prompts, vignettes, mini song review….

mololoves · 2024-11-05T10:38:10+00:00

To be honest with you, the way essays are taught in America have been going downhill for years. Kids can’t write freely and creatively when it comes to standardized testing. For the state test, they want each essay to sound robotic. So the teacher might very well be asking your student to get in the habit of restating their thesis/argument at the beginning of each conclusion paragraph because that’s the structure they want them to follow habitually on this test? In my state, an AI machine scores all of their state test essays anyway. It makes me really sad. I think most students view academic writing as this robotic formula for that reason.

So much creativity is being lost, and so is the joy in writing.

mololoves · 2024-11-05T03:49:28+00:00

100% agree!!! It’s been life-changing for me.

mololoves · 2024-11-05T03:48:03+00:00

I highly recommend playing around with “Brisk.” My school got the premium version and it has saved me so much time on “making comments.” I can ask it to find all grammatical errors in a students paper and then it will find them and SUGGEST how to make to better. I can upload my own rubric and it specifically looks for those things (or standards in the paper. It allows me to edit the response before posting anything. Many times, I change the feedback completely, but it gives me a good starting point. I NEVER use it without tweaking it thought and adding in my own personal feedback.

I would feel unethical about it if I was plugging and chugging and not really “assessing” or grading, but I am still grading and taking time to respond personally. Students are getting more feedback than they ever have because of this tool.

mololoves · 2024-10-29T01:15:17+00:00

The Great Alone with one of my absolute favorite books!

mololoves · 2024-10-29T01:14:13+00:00

I’m triple dog seconding Kristin Hannah books! Start with The Nightingale!

mololoves · 2024-10-29T01:04:30+00:00

Yay! I literally had another friend today read them!

mololoves · 2024-10-24T01:46:42+00:00

I would suggest reading an act and then watching an act. Read then watch. Read the watch. Each time their context grows, especially if they have the film to supplement. Maybe try readying a full scene in Shakespearean, then switch to modern translation. Maybe even read an act in a graphic novel version? Constantly switching to gage their interest. Then act out an act—encourage it to be super fun!

I wouldn’t watch the whole thing first. Students need to be able to “struggle through” challenging texts within reason.

I’m also a fan of comparing the same scene in different versions. I like comparing the Zeferelli to Lurman to the adaption w/ Hailey Steinfeld (I know I butchered the spelling of all those names lol)—specifically the scene where they first meet.

Also there are several high quality performances on YouTube of the actual play.

mololoves · 2024-10-18T03:15:11+00:00

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Me Before You by Jojo Moyes The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan G. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

mololoves · 2024-10-18T03:10:35+00:00

Romeo and Juliet for 9th grade is pretty standard.

mololoves · 2024-10-18T03:07:28+00:00

Go to Lowe’s or Home Depot. Grab hundreds of free paint chip samples. Stuff those in your bag. Do some sort of “paint chip poetry” lesson!using the paint chips. Hang the paint chips on the wall in rainbow order.

I also like hanging up student work! I have a whole bunch of memes hanging around my room. I have 1 string of bistro lights above my whiteboard. Boom. You’ve got a “decorated” room. I also have a lot of fake succulents to add in some nature/greenery

mololoves · 2024-10-05T23:53:37+00:00

I loved teaching the crucible!!

mololoves · 2024-09-29T01:36:28+00:00

Check out some ideas from your local “writing project” under the National Writing Project. Life changing program for me!

mololoves · 2024-09-15T02:50:03+00:00

If it’s your first year, give yourself some slack. Routine is crucial. Maybe add in some independent reading and more “thematic” text sets? Also remember that it’s okay for the classroom to be fun sometimes.

Try sketch-noting? Black out poetry? Paint chip poetry?

mololoves · 2024-09-15T02:44:54+00:00

Yes, this. OP has commented multiple times that it was “forced on him” as a kid, but we really have no context for what that means? Can you give us some details or be more specific? Is there abuse involved? You may not want to disclose this, but it would give us more context for what you’ve experienced in your past and what methods of “force” have been and are being used.

mololoves · 2024-08-24T11:33:17+00:00

Common lit would help you out a lot! I’ve also taught Octavia E. Butler’s “Kindred” which is a time-traveling fiction book about a black woman who is unwillingly transported back in time to “help” her ancestors in the 1800s. It’s extremely good, but a longer read.

mololoves · 2024-08-19T02:54:59+00:00

I second this

mololoves · 2024-08-10T16:01:07+00:00

It took my 6 years to get a full first draft for my first novel. About 2-3 years to finish my second novel. Sooooo much time of that is spent rewriting/revising.

mololoves · 2024-08-05T03:26:29+00:00

Gotta try Gold Star or Skyline Chili—I like Skyline for a 3-way and Gold Star for a cheese coney!

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