Karen Dick

Me too. And I include some drawings in the PowerPoint lesson. I have a student volunteer read “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”. I can’t get through it. Students are very moved.

We used the World War One collection in my grade 10 Canadian history class this morning!

The best trip was when I sat next to a veteran of the Korean war. I asked him if he was excited for the flight. He say he was, but he was REALLY excited about the landing. He'd been a paratrooper!

I've flown in the one at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum a few times. When you build an aircraft that can long haul bricks, just putting a dozen people in it mean that it DOES NOT want to land!

Dark chocolate biscuits(although possibly cakes; this is much disputed) with an orange jelly filling.

For a biscuit / cookie / cake? can’t beat a Jaffa Cake. For bonbons, dark chocolate and raspberry.

Bless.

Can we see the cat?

Nay bother! 🇨🇦

I teach in Ontario and use it to teach about propaganda but we usually talk about what the State wan’t out of an education system.

YouTube video by Public Domain Remastered Walt Disney Animated Short - Education for Death (1943) Remastered 4K 60FPS

Disney produced a propaganda film loosely based on it in 1943. I show in to my grade 10 history class.

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Questions I tried to answer from the young men in my grade 12 history class today:
What do I think the chances are we’ll reinstate conscription?
What are our chances if US troops mass at the border?
If we do conscript, what is our capacity to arm and train them?
Heart broken to hear their worries.

The opening scene with Tom Burke as Athos trying to sober up in the morning - perfection.

and Hamilton Place.

No thank you.

This would be a fun jigsaw puzzle. 🧩

It was so great. My family still calls the plaza where it was located "The Consumer's Distributing plaza". It's been gone for DECADES!
(It also had a Ponderosa restaurant.)

100% agree. I have a handful of brilliant gr. 12s. But most of them can’t be bothered to show up on time, clash their clans or day-trade their bit coins while I’m teaching. I’ve done everything I can think of to help them care and they just don’t. It breaks my heart.

I’m not sure that the Overton window moves in both directions. 😕

The school I teach at has plant elves. We have a plant club that propagates many different plants so we can have them in our classrooms. On Fridays after school the elves visit all the rooms to water AND mist the plants. Our plant elves are the best.

You left off hot water crust. What makes a Scotch pie superior (especially if it comes from Christies’ the baker on the High Street in Airdrie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿).

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Yeah. I can see our English department grabbing all the empty photocopy paper boxes tomorrow. 😔 I don’t understand the motivation.

That’s why I became a history teacher.

Same. But medicine.

Mr. Allum
7th & 8th grade history
Dundana Public School
Wentworth County District School Board

Also, never criticize a student who says a word wrong. It means they’ve only read it but not heard it out loud. I still don’t know how to pronounce the word chyron.

Always praise a student who asks a question. And, about this time of year, the students realize if they ask me something I will take myself on multiple tangents (all round the houses) and I end up asking “did I answer your question?”

Tally Ho.
#HamOnt

Not sure if this is still the case, but when Netflix had "Five Came Back" at first, they also had (nearly?) all of the films mentioned in the documentary. Extraordinary collection.

This is the first one I’ve read but I will certainly seek others out.

Cover of the book “Consider the Fork” by Bee Wilson.

Nearly finished this. Absolutely fascinating. I love tight little studies like this.

I have my Gran’s cookbooks and I collect old cookbooks. The marginalia is the best!