8/30: greek tales for tiny tots
I got a copy of Greek Tales for Tiny Tots through interlibrary loan and scanned it. It was published in 1929, written by John Raymond Crawford and illustrated by Pauline Avery Crawford. The cartoon drawings of the stories are often funny. For instance, this one, in which Perseus and Andromeda have chocolates for breakfast:
8/29: commenting
...on some preliminary writing my students had done. Their writing wasn't for a grade, and it won't be revised, so my comments could be differently pitched than usual, and that change felt good.
8/28: starting verbs
We moved from accents to basic verb forms in Greek class today--it's nice to be making meaning.
8/27: taking a break
...from the evening's work to go out on the deck and photograph the sunset. The flash of color and light didn't last long--I'm glad I was there for it.
8/25: back to quiet writing
It was the first meeting of the Quiet Writing Community this semester, and it was so good to be writing in silent company again.
8/24: both kinds
We ate in the school cafeteria tonight, and for dessert there was strawberry cake and German sweet chocolate cake--I couldn't make up my mind. So Chris said, "You get one, I'll get the other, and we'll split them." So we did, and it was good.
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