MORE POSTS FROM MARCH 2017
Real American Real America Real Christian Real Patriot Real Man Real Woman There is a lot of talking lately about being real. Real America, many people argue, lies in the heart of the poor, rural Midwest communities with silos and farms. As if the big cities no longer matter. Coastal elites, they claim, don’t represent […]
This Week at TLT Middle School Monday: Preparing for Visiting Authors Book Review: The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz A Day without Women Video Games Weekly: Abzu Book Review: Secrets and Sequences: Secret Coders by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes, a guest post by Callum (age 10) Around the Web […]
If you follow me on Twitter (@CiteSomething), then you’re familiar with my extremely entertaining 10-year-old son, Callum. He’s a big fan of graphic novels and recently has started pulling books out of my TBR pile. It’s fun to get book mail and have so much of it either appeal now to him or know it […]
The video game Journey, which I talked about at length here, is one of my favorite video games at all time. The same creator recently came out with a new video game called Abzu, which I pre-ordered because I loved Journey so much. Although it’s not the same experience as Journey, I think many parents […]
Today is the National Day without Women and TLT is a blog created by and run by women. As news came down the pike recently that the ACA replacement plan would not require insurers to cover maternity care at the same time that there are assaults on a women’s ability to get coverage for things […]
Publisher’s description From the multi-award-winning author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe comes a gorgeous new story about love, identity, and families lost and found. Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican-American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it’s senior year, and suddenly […]
This week, G. Neri is visiting our school for a week-long Writer-in-Residence. I know. I know. We’re crazy lucky. Preparing for his visit has been the focus of my teaching for over two months. Every student in our school has read Under Berlin [G. Neri’s short story from the wonderful collection Open Mic, edited by […]
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? #SJYALit May 4, 1970: The Day the Vietnam War Came Home, a guest post by Sabrina Fedel Middle School Monday: Mondays that Don’t Sparkle DVD Review: Political Animals + Giveaway #SJYALit Preserving the Right to Peaceful Protest in 2017 America, […]
In an attempt to express my personal political frustrations, I recently hosted a postcard party. It turns out, with or without the politics, this is a great MakerSpace program. Making your own postcards is quicky, easy fun. Here’s what I did at home: I invited a group of friends to my home whom I knew […]
I thought I was fundamentally and forever broken. The sight of normal boys made me sick. I’d see them walking down the high school, easy and confident and cruel and strong, and I’d get physically ill. I’d skip lunch. I lived on coffee. My stomach hurt all the time. Being gay and having […]
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