Archive for June, 2008

Book Eleventh

Friday, June 27th, 2008

“And if they were confronted with the authority of Scripture, they would maintain that something else must be meant by the words.”  
We have heard that before!  It plunges me into confusion just to think of it.  However, Augustine has his opponents down.  They ” are strangely deceived and rave in the incurable madness of impiety.” [...]

School Year in Review

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Unlike City of God write-ups, I can do this briefly.
 I think I more than met my goals for the year, which were to do a really great job keeping in touch with the parents of my students and to get better at using games in the classroom.  However, I ran into the unexpected, and it [...]

Four Films

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Not One Less
I think about this movie every time I see chalk. It was shown to a bunch of foreign language teachers visiting the American Film Institute Silver Theatre for a professional development session. Heat-warming story veils criticism of government. A thirteen-year-old girl agrees to substitute teach for a month at an [...]

The Quality of Mercy

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Teachers, along with students, naturally welcome the end of the academic year. But I find that I have a hard time prying myself away from my classes. “But wait! They must learn about–” This reluctance to stop teaching helps explain why my students are still doing actual graded work as opposed [...]