July 10, 2008
Six Word Memoirs of Teachers
Teacher Magazine has a fun list of Six Word Memoirs by teachers. It's a sort of homage to the pop mini-memoir book, Not Quite What I was Planning (click through that: apparently you can submit to the sequel!).
Although such things are terribly reductive, they're pithy. A few quick examples from "The Short Happy Lives of Teachers":
Cheerleader aspirations. I teach. Same thing. (Cindi)
Teachers wanted, patience mandatory, sanity optional. (Renee)
Hoped to make difference. Was transformed. (Laura)
My own off the cuff:
After tests, I never said "pencils down."
DId I ask the right questions?
Sold soul to the Devil's Advocate.
Hmmm...harder than it looks! (I prefer this kind of minimalist stuff when you can add a clever title to it: as-is, these read more like dumb tombstone epigraphs!)
Note: AN EXERCISE LIKE THIS WOULD WORK GREAT IN A CLASSROOM.
For now, post your own on the Teacher Magazine site, or here if you like, in a comment. You get SIX words!
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"After tests, I never said 'pencils down.'"
I am being picky - seven words? :)
What do you expect from a math geek?
Good catch, Josh. Imply the subject, then: "After tests, never said 'pencils down'." Still works.
Or, "After tests, I omitted 'Pencils down'."
"Omit post-test pencil-down-putting-statement."
Or, to borrow even further from the German word-formation habit, let's coin a new word:
Posttest-pencildownputtingstatement-omission.
Maybe my 6 word tombstone memoir should now read:
"He neglected to proofread blog posts."
You can put your pencils down now. ;-)
FUN!!! I'm using it in my class this semester!
Also, I found another one where you get to make them write without vowels. It's going to lead to total chaos! Ttl chs!!