I desperately need some help teaching geometry. It's not my strongest subject to begin with and when my students hit a wall like they did today, I have no idea where to go with it. I'm teaching constructions--making angles without using a protractor. Any suggestions for a fun and easy way to learn this? HELP.
In other news it's exhausting being back at work after 18 hours in the car this weekend. I don't know where my students get their energy. Wait, scratch that. They're not energetic in the morning during our core subjects! It's only during electives that they find an energy reserve. I go home and crash on the couch normally and can't move for an hour.
In creative writing we're working on recognizing the time period in situations where the author doesn't state the year. I want them to grasp the idea that there are ways to infer time periods without saying them outright. So far I have one story in:
It was a dark and stormy night, the wind was howling, and Barney had just robbed a bank...
The epilogue:
Santa became the president of the United States, the cops are now generals in the army, the Evil Skeleton became a costume for Halloween, Bowzer became a video game star, Mario and Luigi are rap stars, Darki became an astronaut and Elmo and Barney became hobos. Finally, Donkey Kong became the New York Zoo star.
No idea what time period he was hoping to convey, but darned if I don't want to give it an A anyway.
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I would guess late Triassic. It seems to hit all the key elements of the period.
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