From Crusade (4.1)
Lois: I promise I’ll find out who did this to you, even if I have to do it alone.
Clark: You’re not alone.
To Rabid (9.3)
Lois: This is embarassing to admit, but I don’t want to be alone anymore.
To Finale Part 1 (10.21)
Lois: Clark?
Clark: I’m here.
(via shalimarfox80)
“I’m not unmindful that I am in the shade and you are not, so we’ll keep this short, plus you have a commencement speeker to follow. A real commencement speaker.
You should know, I think, that black cloth absorbs 98% of all incident sunlight upon it, which makes graduation robes good for cold, dank, British boarding schools and bad for outdoor graduations, I just want to tell you that.
That’s a tweet, right there, isn’t that? Just a moment, excuse me. I feel compelled to textify. Hold on. Black cloth, absorbs 98%… graduation robes good for cold dank British prep schools, bad for outdoor graduations.
I just want to make this quick because, I’m tired. I’m tired of trying to fix the world. I need the rest of you to help me fix the world. The world is getting stupider. It is not good when the world starts getting stupid. So yes, even on John Stewart, the opening credits, rotating globe is turning the wrong direction. I told him this.
And in tall buildings, you realize 80% of them don’t have a 13th floor. This, the 21st century America, there are people afraid of the number 13, I need help!
I need help when a member of congress said “I have changed my views 360 degrees on that issue.” I need help!
I need help when I see newspaper headlines lamenting the state of the school system and they complain half the schools are below average. I’m thinking, that’s kind of what an average is, sort of, you kind of need half below! I can’t keep doing this!
Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?! What’s that about? And why do people think the world is going to end this year? They study the Mayan calendar and they believe that the Mayans somehow knew more about Astrophysics than I do! What they didn’t tell you is that the Mayans somehow actually, in their ability to predict the future, didn’t see the end of their own civilization coming.
And then the people who don’t like high-tech, or space… you’re having a conversation with them, and they’re like “Oh, wait a minute, I have a call on my cell phone to get the GPS coordinates of where the sattellite photos are going to be so that we can hold a party when it’s not raining.” These are the people who don’t like technology. Who are these people?! And why do they even exist with that going on in their mind? You have to fix these people!
Cause you know what we need here? I want to make the world smart again, and I need you to be a part of the community of people who help make this happen, because, only then can you invent the future. You don’t discover a preexisting future, you create the future. I want you to create the future that you would be proud to bequeath and honored to inherit.”
well, somebody had to ;)
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PLEASE TELL ME YOU REMEMBER!!!?
I started a unit on Africa with my 7th grade World Cultures classes about two weeks ago. To prep for the unit I created a a large wall size map of Africa on the back wall of our classroom. Then as the first activity in the unit each student drew an African country from a hat and did an individual report on the country.
Each student then got to decide what they wanted to learn about their country. They filled out a KWL. Then picked the top 3 things they wanted to learn and started researching. I had students researching military strategy, educational programs, medicine, dance, music, art, food, economy, and more. Each report I read was completely unique because no two students had the same country, or the same interests. On the last day of our research activity the students got into small groups and shared what they had learned about their countries. It was amazing to see the level of participation and engagement during the activity and the level of retention afterwards when I asked them to fill out an exit ticket listing 2 things they learned from their group discussions.
Another part of their report included finding and printing a picture to place on our class map. The picture needed to in some way represent the country they had researched. Many of the students selected the country’s flag as their picture. Others, however, went in alternate directions. One student, working on Cameroon, selected a picture of a two wrestlers because wrestling is a very popular sport there. Another student selected a picture of a tigerfish because they can be found off the coast of his country. The student studying Liberia printed a picture of a quilt with a flag pattern on it to represent both the country’s flag and the notoriety of their quilting.
The best thing about the map is that it is tangible. It is something the kids can interact not just look at like a normal pull down classroom map. Each student got to come up to the map place their picture on their country and explain how their picture represented the country. And now, we use it on a daily basis to review the geography of Africa. When the students took their Africa map pre-test the highest score received was a 12 out of 53. On average (based on past tests) about half of the students work their way into the C/B range by the final post-unit map test. It is my goal that by using the map on a daily basis and by having the students physically interact with the map regularly all of my students will make it to the C range, with the majority in the high B to A range.
^Exactly^
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For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
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AU Meme: Hermione catches the bouquet at Bill and Fleur’s wedding and Ron whispers in her ear, “That’s gonna be us someday. I know it.”
