It's been a while since I updated this site. Apologies for the neglect. I've been spending every waking school-based hour trying to get through 150 journals and give meaningful feedback.

Today we began a new, small communication unit about 21st-century communication: memes. We'll be eventually tying it into leadership principles (and having some silly fun at times in the meantime), but today we laid the foundation by doing a review (probably no more than 20 minutes) of what metaphors are and how they work.

Afterward, we took the day's journal prompt and turned the first part into a metaphor: "I am a ...." For example, if students suggested they were energetic and liked to have fun, a good metaphor would be, "I am a puppy." (Can't use that one in homework -- we already applied it in class.)