Halloween's a little different when you're a teacher. Celebrating the candy-centered holiday usually means keeping overexcited kids in line, managing multiple Halloween classroom events, and - of course - showing off your best-dressed Halloween costume attire (to students and coworkers). But before dressing up, you want to consider the age group of your class, of course. Kindergartners may not get your "House of Dragons" reference, but might get a kick out of some dog ears and a police uniform for a "Paw Patrol" costume. Also, the subject you teach may influence your outfit of choice. English teachers can pick their favorite literary character like Jane Eyre (or better yet, Bertha Mason moaning in the attic), and eccentric chemistry teachers can...
The following is excerpted from The Calling: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and the Future of Healthcare *** We’re often asked if we had racial taunts or slurs hurled at us. The answer is “Yes.” But we didn’t really identify as Chinese because our parents had such a bad experience with communism in China. We never fit in at our Chinese church because we were so big, especially compared to all the other Chinese kids. We would get stares as if we were aliens. In fact, neither of our parents is especially big. As kids, we fantasized that for Dad’s doctoral thesis in bioengineering, he had run some experiments with growth hormones and we were his dissertation: “Look what I...
This article will contain spoilers for the ending(s) of the 2018 film "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch."In 2018, director David Slade (Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb" music video, "Hard Candy") and screenwriter Charlie Brooker (co-showrunner of "Black Mirror") teamed up with Netflix to try out something that hadn't been attempted too many times in the past. Using a kind of basic "branching video" technology, their "Black Mirror" feature film "Bandersnatch" could be watched as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style interactive experience, letting a viewer decide how the story would progress. About ten minutes of the film would elapse before the main character Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) was faced with a decision, major or minor. On the bottom of the screen, two buttons would appear, and the viewer...
This very simple science activity is a fun take on a magic opening flowers investigation. It’s also part of my Halloween paper science experiment pack containing 5 easy paper based activities for Halloween. The idea is to fold the ghosts up and watch as they open in the water. This happens because paper is made of lots of fibres which absorb the water making the paper expand slightly and the ghost shape open up! You’ll need Ghost template Scissors Tray Water Instructions Carefully cut out the ghost shapes from the template ( or draw your own ). Fold up the legs, arms and feet. Pour about 1cm of clean water into a tray. Place the ghosts on the surface of...
Hebe Uhart A Trip to La Paz by HEBE UHARTHebe Uhart / Un viaje a La PazTranslated from the Spanish by ANNA VILNEREssay appears in both Spanish and English.Translator’s NoteHebe Uhart’s “A Trip to La Paz” is delightfully misleading in that we never arrive at our destination; we never see the city that touches the clouds. This essay is concerned with a different kind of beauty—the getting there, the buzzing potential of travel. It encapsulates why we embark on grueling car rides, on flights, on long train journeys, in the first place.At the outset, we encounter a young Uhart traveling abroad for the first time. She is with her elegant older friend Julia, a girl who can’t be bothered to come...
