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In my summer classes, I got 4 As and 1 C. The C was in building classroom communities, the week-long class in which I was supposed to encourage passive-aggressive behavior and cop-outs to promote classroom bonding. I hated it, and my grade suffered, but I was still surprised. I emailed the bigot of a teacher we had (she said several times how ‘white teachers’ always act as if she was doing standup on Chappelle Show) and she said:
My comments and the points on the rubric indicate your failure to meet the expected outcomes. Your implementation plan lacks detail, depth, and critical connections to required literature. Your reading critique fails to meet any criteria from three of the four areas – specifically – thoughtfully addressing five key components, thoughtfully addressing challenges with the five key components, and thoughtfully addressing your personal connections with the five key components. I gave you 10 points for structure only because the paper technically met the required criteria.
I have cc’d this message to [name deleted-my cohort leader] as your Cohort Leader – who must be kept aware of all grade issues for the MAT secondary students.
Bitch.
In much better news, Anthony and Armando came out for a visit, and it was fun-tacular.
We went up Big Cottonwood Canyon and checked out Solitude, here’s Hidden Falls on the way.
There’s the lake!
We also checked out Antelope Island SP, which, as you can see, is a beautiful island out on the lake. Geologically it’s famous for Snowball Earth deposits which is fake.
There are also buffalo… more to come.
Much more because next stop: Jellystone. Anthony had to go back but ‘mando and I took the 2-day Sheila tour.
We of course hit the famous spots like the hot springs, The Grand Canyon of The Yellowstone The, and the geysers.
We got Old Faithful near…
…and far.
Don’t you love it when you get the geyser going off in the picture? Of course this was the 47th picture of this spot…
Why would there by columnar jointing in Yellowstone? I don’t get it…
And, just like everywhere else in the country, there just happens to be another world-class National Park on the way home… I guess we’ll stop…
The Tetons are always great… one day, I need to spend more time there then a drive-by.
Call me crazy, but when you can see a dike from 10 miles away (top of mountain), I’d consider it on the big side of the spectrum. This is an Eocene dike in the basement of the Tetons, which is mainly Paleoproterozoic.
We got back just in time to see my aunt, uncle, and cousins on their way back to the bay area. The kids pretty much destroyed the Lego village, but it’s repaired now and will soon be ready for its web expose
One other awesome thing happened… I saw Real Salt Lake lose 2-0 to Real Madrid! I got to see my favorite defender, Roberto Carlos, along with Beckham, Carnevallo (WC MVP), and Van Nistelrooy. Everyone was seeming there to see Bend-it-like. He only played the second half, and as he walked off the field after the game, he applauded to the crown, and the loudest ovation of the whole match was heard. The star of the game was Robihno, that guy was unbelievable. The pics were not great, but you can see the goals here. When the camera pans to the crowd after the pk, you can see Aly and I pretty clearly.
Well, that’s about it. Soon, (well, hopefully) I’ll give an extensive review of the vast music I’ve collected this summer and detail our Lego town.
P.S. All you UCLA geo-nerds (and those who love them) should check out this. It’s funny. It took me a while to figure it out, let’s see how y’all do.
Comments (7)
ooo pretty! i STILL haven’t been to yellowstone or the tetons!!! i wanna go!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, you done a lot. Yeah, I can totally see you getting a C in an education class. Of course, not because you’re a C student, we all know you’re an A+ student. But because education tends to be filled with a bunch of ass folks that are dumb and stick to rubrics and don’t realize when someone is just better than that.
My department doesn’t do stupid TA training things, but I had to for the Environmental Studies department. It was so incredibly lame. They were making a big deal about how you shouldn’t single out a student and stuff. I was abbergasted. I told them that the best way to deal with underachieving students is to call them out on it and embarrass them in front of their peers. It works!
wow… fucking bitch indeed. i hate people like that.
Fuck you stupid bigot’ed teacher.
And she teaching this world’s youth. GREAT!!! :-/
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I’d like to know what “abbergasted” means. Is that like “flabbergasted”?
And why does Chris spell “gol” with an A?
nice of you to update. Pictures are cool and trips looked fun