The pandemic forced me to teach in new ways, and this humble channel provides content this fall for the class I took up because of a colleague's illness, and it also provides lessons for my Comp I and Comp II students at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle high school.
Thank you for this video. Insightful comparison and analysis! I’ve always heard “Hemingway changed American literature,” but never really understood what that was supposed to mean. I’ll be watching more of your videos to try and learn more.
Thurman was my dad. I think the lesson he left was that it's much easier to judge someone than it is to know them. Imagery and swearing aside, he cared deeply about people if he thought they were worth it. Especially in this day and age, so many folks are afraid to be transparent for fear of offending others, or worse yet, don't even really know their true selves. By the time Dad was older he just wasn't afraid to be who he was - and it made it easy to identify the people who wrote him off before they even knew him. It's probably good he died when he did. People had a hard enough time handling him then, and he would've bust a spring if he lived to see how judgmental and easily offended society is today.
1:40 “Why is my nose itchy?” Because … when you are recording you re-align your nose to a lower position with the camera device. A post nasal drip wants to engage but you are resisting it. A little Afrin before a recording session might help. Think about making your breath perfect. Hold it as long as possible. “A single blade of grass is equal to the journeywork of the stars.”
I have randomly stumbled upon this video and decided to watch it for some reason. But, I couldn't close it without writing this comment, and telling you that your students must be very lucky to have a teacher like yourself. I just loved how genuinely passionate you sounded.
You are so very sweet and kind. I am not an online teacher, but the calamities of the day at my state college called on me to try, and the pandemic nudged me to try to survive outside my beloved classroom.
Since Cunk of The World has made a splash on Netflix folks have discovered her other works such as the series Mandy and Cunk on Britain. Lots of good laughs.
You'll know by now, Diane Morgan is from Bolton in Lancashire, England. Philomena is fab. I didn't know about the tectonic plates and the moon, thank you 😊
Your discussion on enthymeme was great. I did not realize I was using invisible enthymemes with my children. I chuckled at the thought of giving my children what I call the mom, looking to get them to do what I had previously asked them.
I have zero context for this. I am (hopefully) a soon to be law student from Czechia (Czech Republic) who just likes making poems from time to time. Irregardless of that, I can tell You are a great teacher and wish You good health!
Thank you for this generous comment, and here is poem for you. I have not yet hosted Modlin for my Verse Like Water series, but if you hit the play button on my favorite poem of the pandemic, you will hear my friend Pádraig reading beautifully, and he is one of the 34 great poets I have brought to my state college and Minnesota. Best of luck in your pursuit of a life in law. onbeing.org/poetry/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade/
Really chuffed about your ramblings-brillant ramblings-not too mention your appreciation of "The Cunk"! Vous adorables her outlandish, I will even say silly, (I've been told one must never call anyone silly?!)but that reminds one of, "A little nonsense now n' then is cherished by the wisest men". Do you know who's quote that is...I would assume yes.
@@jamesbryon8257 Here is a poem I just gave to another kind commenter. I have not hosted Modlin for my Verse Like Water series, but tap on play so you can hear my friend Pádraig who I was consigned to host virtually in the apocalypse...it is about a teacher who is a meta-physician. I will now go snow shoeing! onbeing.org/poetry/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade/
@@Jeffie144 ja ja ja (that's Spanish/mexican/Latin for laughter)! I thought that verbose wordy but was actually the poem! Better click the link I guess; be right back.
I'm an English Lit student at a university in Britain. I have no idea why this video was recommended to me as, in addition to being unfamiliar with most of the subject material, I am neither one of your students nor American. Still, you seem like an excellent teacher and your students are lucky! Great video.
Thank you Sam! I teach English at Central Lakes College in Brainerd MN, and I also direct Verse Like Water, a reading series devoted only to tier one, internationally known poets. I think I have the answer...I am an evangelist for actual classes, live classes, but a medical leave has pushed me into service with a fully online class that I teach with RU-vid videos. One of them features your very own Philomena Cunk, and that one is crowding 5000 views. You sir, live in the funniest country in the whole wide world.
100% worthless. Synopsis: old loser rants - Philomena Cunk Moments of Wonder: Philosophy - old loser rants some more. Sure hope this gets taken down soon!
Speaking on suicide and playing the video of the poem "Wait" I am grateful that you tackled such a hard subject to talk about. My 8-year-old daughter has suicidal ideation and now I have something for her to read or read to her.
How can you be certain you're awake? You might be dreaming you are? We might exist in order for dreams to exist as part of our existence includes dreaming if we didn't exist dreams for us wouldn't exist either - unless we're part of some other beings dreams then we wouldn't exist in rality but that being would exist and would be capable of dreaming - simple.
Speaking on perception and saying that it is the truth. Watch the movie LIAR LIAR starring Jim Carrey, specifically the part when he admits that he can't lie. He sits and tries to say that the pen is red when in reality it is royal blue. He physically can not even say the word red while observing the pen.
People usually mention science and technology but they forget that science has been around for a very long time and tech is still relatively new. Science is very secretive about their inventions and the average man don't have access to scientific breakthroughs while tech is open people have access to their innovations. So why people couple the two together baffles me. Nice video though.
This is a lucid and true observation. I was just today in two live classes at my college talking about the idea that the first true scientist was Aristotle, and he had zero tech...this is 2500 years ago. And you nudged me to check out the NYT...at the top of their page, there is not menu for tech, but there is for science.
Absolutely true! When I did PSEO it was common to be treated as 2nd class and many time high school teachers flat out lied about the program to get students not to do it. Now it probably was because they have seen so many horror stories, but for the students like myself, it sure didn't help me take the jump to take education in my own hands. I'm so glad I did, and I gradated with a AA degree with high honors! Don't let those people get in the way!
I just began my first year of full-time PSEO at Century College and I am so glad I did it! I have been doing well in my classes (so far) and am working towards my associates degree. I love the flexibility I have and similar to you the ability to take your learning into your own hands. I am also glad because my high-school has been overall very supportive of it. When I debated getting a job for the fall I decided to wait and see how classes are going, and now that I have an idea of my free time I may apply somewhere and ensure that I am very strict regarding availability/hours, especially since places are desperate for workers they are more likely to still hire me😂. I am glad PSEO went well for you!
This reminds me of Jeff Goldblum’s wonderful line in Jurassic Park: “Um...eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs in your dinosaur park?” I would change the line here to “Um...eventually you do plan to talk about The Great Gatsby in your Great Gatsby video?” After 3 minutes of listening to you ramble about maple-sap, birds, lighting and ground turkey-in-buttermilk, I was wondering how many of your students were vegetarians and when this would all mercifully end. My god, your students are already subjected to Zoom hell and you brutally hit them over head with more vanity-videos? F. Scott died of a heart attack reaching for the mantle of his LA apartment. I’m feeling the same way watching YOU!
I think part of the reason that we like superheroes so much is the idea that no matter how hard something is, or how bad it all gets, they always survive, and make everything better, and I think that we really like that idea.
He is huge to me and I think and talk about him all the time...I use his big Nobel Prize speech episodically. The tiny problem with the Gulag is that it is endless...you could brick a house with that one.
@@Jeffie144 After hearing the poetry reading I thought it was relative. Though I am currently reading an abridged version, and have read the original nearly 2000 page volumes, so far it has done it justice for a faster read.
Dear students: nasty bots are posting evil links on my nonevil videos, and they seem to do this right away and then let me alone. I will try to keep this channel clear and clean so Severus Skywalker can dig my closing quotes.
