Self-tutoring about 80s culture: the tutor visits something he might have missed the first time. “Solid as a Rock” by Ashford and Simpson was released on Nov 9, 1984. It reached position 12 on the top 100 in the US. …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects. In grade 5, Greg sat in the column next to mine. We called the columns rows, but they weren’t: the desks were lined up, facing forward, with the front …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects…. I met Heath back in grade 4, the late spring day the whole school went to a track meet except us (see my earlier post here). Heath was an …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects about elementary school desks. I mention in my post from April 21,2021, about organizing other students’ desks, at the teacher’s order, back in grade 4. Yet, that post rose …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects…. Earlier today I was at the supermarket, picking up a week’s worth of groceries. We’re a family of four, so the cart was getting full. Eggs were on the …
Self-tutoring about people and events of the past: the tutor reflects. A few weeks after I arrived to a big new school in April, grade 4, in the Annapolis Valley, a track meet was scheduled one afternoon. After lunch, we …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor begins about the “farm kids.” “Jack, you belong in the slaughterhouse,” one of my classmates observed one day. I recall it like yesterday: I could take you to the exact …
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions the first “in-crowd” he knew. Up through grade four, there were always kids who were a little more popular, but the difference wasn’t typically much. Moreover, even through grade …
Self-tutoring about people, places, and events from the past: the tutor mentions a seasonal one. On one side of the family, my grandparents lived in the same town the entire time I knew them. It was a charming, old-fashioned town, …
Self-tutoring about people, events, and places of the past: the tutor reflects… An esker, by my understanding, is a raised bed of sand and/or gravel that was deposited as a glacier melted. It can be perhaps a few dozen feet …