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Retired high school English teacher. Rode #Zwift but changed to #Rouvy and collect medals on #ConquerorChallenges Started substitute teaching again. Background photo is of a giant Cheeto being held by a giant hand in a farmers yard. The hand has Cheeto dust on it I follow people if they interact with me, repost something I have written, or if they post or repost something I find interesting. Having a great time here

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albnelson , to bookstodon group
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Besides Shakespeare, were you assigned more than one book by the same author in school? K-12, not college. @bookstodon

kimhoar ,
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@albnelson @bookstodon as a former English teacher I was the opposite. Let me students choose whatever book they wanted from the Provincial "approved" list.

Search -Approved Novels Alberta pdf.

It included Heinlien, McCaffrey, Asimov, Scott Card, as well as other fiction.
No tests, just had to respond personally to each chapter or set number of pages.

If parents objected to books on the list they could substitute one of a similar reading level

Huge list available.

faab64 , to palestine group

On the morning of May 8, Israeli forces razed the entire Bedouin village of Wadi al-Khalil in the Naqab/Negev desert. The demolitions, which were carried out in order to expand the Route 6 highway, left more than 300 residents homeless.
Wadi al-Khalil is one of 35 Bedouin villages in the Naqab whose existence the Israeli authorities do not officially recognize; as a result, the villages, which are home to around 150,000 Bedouin Arab citizens of Israel, face the constant threat of demolition. Many of the villages are decades old — some even pre-date Israel’s establishment — but they are prevented from connecting to state infrastructure including water and electricity, and their residents are denied municipal services.
According to the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages, Wednesday’s demolition was the largest in the Naqab for 14 years. It comes as Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir vows to crack down on what he calls “lawbreakers” and restore meshilut — literally “governance,” a euphemism for Jewish-Israeli control — to the area. Eight other unrecognized villages are currently under threat of forced eviction under the guise of urban development.
“You work eight or nine years, saving money to build a house, and then they destroy it,” Yousef Abu Issa, a 35-year-old resident, told +972. “They don’t give you another place to live, they don’t help you.”
by Oren Ziv שיחה מקומית
972mag.com/israel-razes-bedoui…

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kimhoar ,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel I believe Saudi Arabia is doing the same to build their horizontal skyscraper. Correct me if I am wrong… both are wrong

kimhoar ,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel But both are wrong.

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