“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” ― Washington Irving
I’ve been a baker for a long time. Nothing super fancy or particularly aesthetically pleasing, but cookies and cakes and tasty sweet things. Palate pleasing things. This probably stems from the greater enjoyment I get from eating the raw dough. Some of my earliest memories are eating raw cookie dough with my mom, hahaha.
A little over a year ago I started down the sourdough path, and I have a handful of recipes I’ve become pretty good with. Today was supposed to be a loaf bread baking day. But I did something wrong and my starter did not rise
…soooooo…it’s a discard biscuit day instead.
Change of plans!
In my early teaching years, I experienced classroom faux paus, i.e. change of plans, like that fairly often. I would expect something to go one way, and I would think I have everything plotted out…and then…splat. A portion of directions wasn’t clear or I overlooked this, or even worse, I assumed that or the internet is out district wide, or all the power is out schoolwide. There were just so many things to go awry. However, as the days, weeks and quarters ticked by, I figured out how to refine things for less, well, splat moments.
It would be a bit arrogant to say I eliminated splats comprehensively, 100%. After all teaching really is a refinement process, and not just initially, but perpetually because your audience changes so fast—five times a day (depending on your school’s structure) and every year—twice a year for those semester teachers. But, with more experience, when things did get a little hairy the splat moments just were not as messy. More like a drip than an all-out splat.
Whether you be novice or veteran, if you need some quality lessons that are fully comprehensive, classroom tested (many times over) and will help avoid any potential splat moments, rise above with my prior misfortunes, hahahaha. You may be interested in checking these out:“The Elevator” is my most popular short story resource, I’m actually using it right now with the homeschoollers, because it’s a short and easy read that generally engages students prior to them having to dig into the text.
“The Elevator” is my most popular short story resource, I’m actually using it right now with the homeschoollers, because it’s a short and easy read that generally engages students prior to them having to dig into the text. Side note: We’ve also been working on sentence diagramming, so I’ll be adding that to the list for the Free Little Resource Library at some point (still plugging away with Greek mythology…)
If you teach some upperclassmen and need a solid “Hamlet” activity, my “Hamlet” vs. “The Lion King” comparative activity is pretty popular right now, and it’s a fun way to wrap up a unit.
Happy Teaching!
M.D. Saints
Reading the Rapids
Liberty Dog Writing Co.
These dogs. They eat and play and stroll and snooze, and amongst all that, they have plenty of their own little splat moments. Some of which I did happen to get a picture or video of, but I needn’t embarrass them. Here they are happy and non splatty instead. X)
Okay and PS: Since drafting this this morning, I have made the discard biscuits and they didn’t quite come out right either……so I guess I neglected Phyllis a day or two too long and now need to nurse her back to health so she can do her rising, literally, properly next time. X)