Tag: English
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Week 30: Writing Prompts
Monday 21 March Describe the last time you were wrong. I’m really bad at communicating. I know a lot of people say say this, and like them, I mean that I don’t respond to messages as often as I should. I think this error is really a problem of respect; I’m not respecting my social…
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Week 23: Writing Prompts
Monday 31 January Write about finding something that was lost. It was dark – not lightless, airy dark, where there is a faint echo of light reverberating off the walls of a lightly-painted classroom, but dark-dark, where photons go to die, deep wet cave dark, dark like the inside of a chest kept in your…
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Week 34
Friday 28 February: Day 232 A few months ago, Kalar started requiring people to pay for parking near the bazaar. They have young men on every street corner collecting parking tickets and fining people if they stay there too long, placing little yellow slips on the windshields of cars that have been parked for too…
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Week 33
After lunch we pack fig tree cuttings into plastic beds to be planted later. It’s hot now, and we can feel the hint of summer. Soon it will be too hot to do this, and our lunches must stay in the shade. But not today.
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Week 32
The glare on the white board is powerful and its catching these long beams of hanging dust particles that make the room feel monastic and introspective in that special academic way, and I hope my students are starting to paint their world in a new language.
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