Today we partied like it's 1982*:
I'm looking forward to reading your journals this weekend, because I want to know exactly how you see "Immigrants in Our Own Land" and how you see yourself as a learner at this point in your life.
I'm also looking forward to reading your essays and seeing whether you adopt any of the other opportunities we discussed (video, recitation, photo essay, etc.) over the weekend.
(*This is an allusion. It's a reference to a lyric in the song "1999. The album came out in 1982, when I was 12 and Prince was the Future. Enjoy.)
Actually if it was 1982, that White Board would be Green and the markers would be Long slivers of Chalk, there would be a cloud of Dust from the erasers, and this Portable would only be slightly horrible.
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Ha! Right you are. I actually thought about those green chalkboards when I wrote this and thought, "Ah, what difference will it make, these kids today don't know..." I underestimated you. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And, for the record, the portables sucked from the beginning.
DeleteTrue. The Admin Building still has the Green Chalkboards from it's days as Classrooms(which actually ended just a few years ago, Measure H is supposed to turn it back into Classrooms). Not to mention the smell of Cigarette smoke from when teachers could smoke during class.
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