Geezer Blog Hack II

 Just a quick note to let you all know the Geez is alive and kickin'.

169 cm sled on the ridge last Friday.

Been doing bit of shredding the slopes and riffing on the tubs.  

Rockin at Centennial Hall Last week.

Teaching Teachers in AK.

Also blogging most every day with teachers all across the state.   

It's my other job.

Click Here to check out my AK History blog steeze. 



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So, I thought it was past time to remind you how amazing you are and how much I miss your face. 

That's right. I'm talking to you. 


Bottom Line: Time slips away like sands through the hourglass. 

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.  You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way.  Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town - waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Time by Pink Floyd

 
Be dropping in like a bomb before you know it. 

Say hey to Mr. D. for me.

Peace Out! - Busta Hip

Journalism

During class this week, I spoke about how to structure a journalistic article.  Your job was to work with each other to create a front page of amazing creativity.  You may work with a group, but if you find yourself getting behind just give me an article written in the structure we talked about. You can check out details on this assignment by clicking... HERE.

P.S. the ones that I have seen ROCK!  You guys and gals are awesome!

Persuasive Writing

By now you should have a poster with your persuasive writing up on the wall of room 218!  If you have been out of town doing sports, traveling our wonderful state, or at home sick, you can still make a poster and get it to me for points.  Check out details on the assignment by clicking... HERE

Writing Assignment #3

We have been checking out some people who followed their passions and dreams.  They expressed emotion through all of their writing.  Your writing challenge is to add amotion to our daily lives by re-writing the news like a Romantic poet. Check out the assignment by clicking... HERE.

Blog Hack by the Geezer

Thought I'd hack my way into the old mother blog and let you know the geezer's okay.  

Just ask Julian, Liam, Bekka and Matt ; )

Weekly Challenge #1

This is your first weekly challenge on tone.  To get the assignment click here.

See You Later .....

Our time together has been transformational in so many ways.  A few months was not nearly enough time to know enough of your vibrant lives, though much was revealed through your writing and riffing.  Each triumphant and tragic story resonates deeply with me. 

I am pleased and proud as you have risen to difficult, vital challenges; not the least of which was finding room in your hearts to allow a yarn-yammering science imposter to play the impossible role of a suitable substitute for a brilliant and deeply loved teacher of the language arts.

Though thrust together, we learned to trust together and to hold each other up.  So, thank you for allowing me to do what I do in spite of my limitations -- for enduring my inadequacies and accepting me so warmly and gracefully.  And now it's time for more change.

It seems most of you have already discerned what I have learned about Bill Dwyer : That he is the real deal -- packed chock-full of energy, soul and a deeply rooted passion for words and people. Just what the doctor ordered. You're in very good hands now. 

It's been Good.  Have a wonderful time this semester and I'll see you later....