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Kay
@gandalf-the-bae.bsky.social
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8th grade ELA teacher
NBCT Candidate - ELA Early Adolescence ‘28
🏡Chicago
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Student collage project - Hobbes and Rousseau while reading Lord of the Flies
A student made collage. The outside edges are red, black and orange. The middle, like its erupting from the page, are blues and purples, with the French figure Liberte in the center In large font at the top - “WAR” Next line says “Thomas Hobbes” “The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” THE GOVERNMENT WIL PREVENT THIS and IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY There are black and white images of people in gas masks and airplanes. Brown and green collage background. A brain in the center. Old school political cartoon figures on either side of page. “Man is born free” written across the top HOBBES in letters across the top. “The fence of freedom hides barbarism” in cut out letters diagonally across the page. Then it says “when given freedom and lack of authority humans tend to turn to violent means, as an act of self-preservation they will fight, all the world will turn to chaos.”
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Also adapted from @marcusluther.bsky.social, I’ve never received such impressive annotations and deep thinking from 7th graders!!! Thank you!!!! Anticipating honing in and digger deeper after break
A read door in a classroom. A sign that says “read like an Octopus” hangs at the top of the door, along with a drawing of an octopus. Below the sign are 13 student papers displaying annotations and writing
December 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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They love the so much better board! Very few hundreds up here, but not the point! #edusky
A bulletin wall featuring stapled up student papers there’s a sign that says “so much better” above the papers
December 13, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Arts-integrated project! Kiddos used ribbon and string to EVOKE (key vocab word) the emotions they felt during the first three months of school. Written artist statements as well. So proud of them! #edusky
A grey folding wall displaying various colorful looms, woven by students. Their written artist statements are displayed beside each piece. The word “evoke” is displayed on the top of the wall.
November 22, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Week before Thanksgiving is perfect time for “ahhrt intehgration”
A bunch of hand woven looms done by 7th graders
November 18, 2024 at 9:47 PM