Wednesday 17 June 2020

a living document...

"A good lesson plan is a living document.  It is not set in stone, but rather it is a guide that keeps you--the classroom practitioner--engaged and thinking about what you are teaching."  Otis Kriegel   Let Complete Literature help you create the perfect lesson plans for your class in a fraction of the time!  With over 250 activities per book, you will never run out of ideas for your class.  And you won't have to scour the internet to find them.  They are all in one place--Complete Literature.

I like to call mine a Living Document with a lot of TBD on it. 
As I get to know the students, I add material, oft with their input. My syllabus is an invitation, not a contract. - Dr Susan Blum - Twitter 17.6.20

And that is how I like to teach... No contract except a bare draft - open to one or more modifications...open to and dependent on students and variables...

potato and rabbit...


It feels so good to muse on possibilities...The mind gets exhausted with mainstream news and protocols...

Lake Chad crisis...

An area that used to be on the edge of Lake Chad. The drying lake has exacerbated suffering for millions.
The above is an image of what used to be the edge of Lake Chad.

Located in Northern Central Africa, Lake Chad borders four countries — Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. But the Lake Chad “Basin” that covers almost 8% of the continent, spreads over seven countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Libya, Niger and Nigeria.

More on the story of the Lake Chad Basin (24.12.2019)  HERE 

home fires...

cluttered discord...

One time I enjoy urban worlds is when it rains...and the colours come out to play in many strange places...

SEQTA review...

I have a love and hate relationship with SEQTA...I love what SEQTA is trying to do...You can guess the flip side...

storm monster...

The main updraft is the mesocyclone element - reaching up to 200 miles per hour...
- Extract from Still Life With Crows - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

a bird in the hand...

white wings and wintering trees...

These white cockatoos only just managed to skim their wide wingspans between the two trees...I almost missed capturing the moment...almost...

sea anemones...

waterhole traveler...

alert feathers...

muluguun...

NOTE: “Muluguun” is the Ngunnawal name for the beautiful platypus. I used to have a platypus in a lake on my property in northern Tasmania. His name was Merlin.


Bilargun and Daroo 'The Platypus story'Bilargun and Daroo 'The Platypus story' 

 When the old people sat around their campfire, they would tell the dreamtime story of the platypus.

 "Once there was a water rat named Bilargun, while he was out hunting one day, he saw Daroo the duck, and decided that he wanted her as his wife. He silently swam underneath the water and grabbed her legs, and then took her back to his hole in the bank; which was his home. There he made her very comfortable and brought her food every day. They were very happy. Bilargun told Daroo that if ever she was in danger, to hit her tail on the water as a warning signal.

After some time, Daroo the duck had some babies, and do you know, they had Daroo the duck’s bill and webbed feet, and Bilargun the water rat's fur coat and a flat tail."

To this day the baby's ancestors can still be seen in the creeks and rivers, using the same warning signal. They are now called the 'Platypus'.
                                                                 Source: HERE

Australian Platypus Conservancy -  Although platypus fur is very high quality, each animal provides only a small skin. Thus the amount of time spent in catching a sufficient number of platypus for a fur cloak or rug was probably rarely worthwhile compared to hunting more easily obtained mammals such as possums and kangaroos. This relative lack of economic importance may explain why the platypus appears to have been rarely depicted in traditional aboriginal artwork.

a baby pebble...

'World Without End'...

What a masterpiece! This is one novel that will always stay with me... I felt I lived there for awhile and wandered the days (and nights) of medieval life in the town of Kingsbridge...

P.S. On Saturday 11th April, 2020, I first posted about this book HERE

welcome sounds...

in tandem...

Henri Yagodkin is one of the best known and most respected artists in Ukraine. However, despite having a flourishing career in realistic art during the 1970s and 1980s, he has not exhibited in any gallery or institution for the past 20 years.

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