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It’s only 120 seconds. (Of terror. Also, more cartoons.)

mrC on It’s only 120 seconds. (Of terror. Also, more cartoons.)

I have always hated “book reports.” (Wait, I told my wife I would try to stop using that word.) I didn’t like writing them (took all the fun out of the book), I didn’t like reading them back when I thought I had to assign them. I don’t like the summarize kind, the analyze kind, […]

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Cartoon Fun II.

mrC on Cartoon Fun II.

A “typical” period in Mr. Coward’s class in “pictures” Part II. After they have completed the warm up, we go over it. I use my wireless slate to circle the correct answers on the screen and write hints. I can also flip the pen over, and use the built-in laser pointer to emphasize (or annoy). […]

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A Typical Day – Part One (Mailbag IIa)

mrC on A Typical Day – Part One (Mailbag IIa)

Another question I get a lot is: “What does a typical period in your class look like?” As all we teachers know, there is no such thing as a typical day. However, as I have said many times, middle-schoolers crave routine, so there IS a certain groove to my class. Mondays are for going over […]

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  • Still My Favorite Book!
  • EEDD
  • I Saw You! (Revisited)
  • Off-Topic
  • “Dear Mr. Coward, I just checked Einstein’s grade…”
  • 500th Post! And a Couple of Firsts.
  • OMG! Twenty Five Years! Plus Ca Change…
  • The Wall of Shame Revisted
  • (2014) Jonas = Harry Potter?
  • “You May Lie” (as Always)
  • Whose Perfect Day?
  • Didn’t He Used to Have a Head? (The New Guys, Part II)
  • The New Guys Part I: That’s Mr. McCaw to You!
  • Rerun: PIA -3 (2011)
  • Somebody Stepped on a Butterfly
  • The Right Tool for the Job
  • Rerun: Dr. Crankenstein (2010)
  • Best Thank You Note Ever!
  • Rerun: Open Mouth Democracy (2009)
  • Only in California
  • Rerun: Sunny (2009)
  • Pavlov’s Dawgs
  • Rerun: Politeness Girl (2008)
  • Did I just hear YOU say that?
  • Mailbag
  • Talk Faster
  • The New Fad
  • I Get Paid the Same…
  • “Oh Yeah? Great!”
  • “Running” a Family
  • We’ll Get to Know Each Other Plenty, Believe Me
  • Open Mouth Returns (Part One), but the Revolution Will NOT Be Televised
  • MCTV is Live
  • I Guess We’ll See How This Goes
  • The Other Mr. Coward
  • Go Visiting!
  • The Last Servant
  • How Many Words is This Picture Worth?
  • There’s Only Room for One of Us in This Town
  • The Good Sub
  • Yeah, I Think He’s the Guy
  • A New Part of Speech
  • A New Language
  • My Classroom Crew (Inanimate Division)
  • PLEASE ENTER THROUGH OTHER DOOR.
  • Report Card Day (Rerun 2011)
  • No Wonder They’re Always Squirming
  • Five Shows a Day…
  • Follow the Plan, Stan (Sub Tips)
  • Ouch Indeed
  • Like Cereal? Really? Really?
  • Girls, Girls, Girls… Boiz
  • Did You Ride Your Bike?
  • My Name is mrC and I Have ADHD (Rerun 2011)
  • Can We All Please Just Agree to Do This?
  • Cootie Catchers Would’ve Been More Fun
  • Discipline? Umm, I Don’t Usually Have a Problem With That. (Rerun)
  • As If
  • 17 Reasons: Kicking it Old School
  • Ch..ch…ch…Changes! Oh Jhonny!
  • Juice Bar?
  • Polish ______?
  • YMCA? Why Is It Fun to Stay?
  • Is Your Child Ready for 7th, Oops I Mean First, Grade? (1979 Edition)
  • SPAM Attack!
  • Victory Lap
  • Yeah, It’s Sort of a New Thing
  • Quiz Show!
  • Blog It Baby! (Proud to be a “Thief”)
  • Old Guy Alert
  • Penguin Watching
  • ITS!
  • I’m a STEAMroller , Baby!
  • The Wheel Has Already Been Invented (Rerun. Because I’ve Earned It.)
  • Another Legacy (What Am I Going to Do – Part II)
  • What Am I Going to Do Now?! (Part I)
  • Ooooh, He’s Hawt!
  • Jonas = Harry Potter?
  • Maybe Someone Will Listen to the Rocket Scientist (Nah.)
  • Were There Also Yessies?
  • Is That Good? Or Bad?
  • I Just Remembered the Name of This Blog (Also: Vegas)
  • Feed Me, or I’ll Stop Doing What Little Thinking I’m Doing About What You Have to Say
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  • Near As I Can Figure, TFA Sucks
  • Survivor is Back! Time for a Rerun.
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  • Just the Right Balance
  • BTSN Rerun
  • Slow Don’t Necessarily Mean Stupid. (Also: Jhonny Lives!)
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  • Kachunk. Kachunk. Kachunk.
  • “Congratulations! You’ve won a free oven mitt!”
  • Day One: Year Twenty-One
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  • “You Can’t Take a Donkey and Make Him Win the Kentucky Derby.” (With Example.)
  • The Stick is Back, and So Am I!
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  • MAUS is back. (Rerun)
  • Speaking of…
  • Even “Disneyland” is in Danger (Part 1)
  • The Pitch
  • Retirement is for Wimps
  • OK, I have been lagging, but this is my 400th post! (Also: Husker Du?)
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  • Off Topic Questions Part I
  • The Cupcakes of Spurned Love Are For Sale
  • Time to Confess
  • “You’re Doing So Well Now!”
  • BoT #2
  • Crickets (Tweetervision)
  • Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
  • There’s Hope for the Youth of Today After All
  • I Hate to Say I Told You So
  • Questions and Answers (re: Giver)
  • Turkey Baster?
  • Received! I Meant Received!
  • On the First Day of My Christmas Vacation…
  • Dedicated to… THAT Kid
  • NINE DAYS?! (Also: Kurt Vonnegut)
  • Teacher Collaboration (Short Hair II)
  • The Great Homework Experiment
  • Gotcha by the Short Hair
  • The CC Button
  • I Can’t Get the Box Open!
  • Mmmmmm… Sniffy.
  • Writing is Easy!
  • Guest Artist: Marion Brady is Back With Talking Points
  • Slow M-ohh-tion
  • Dracula in Dreads?
  • And So It Begins…Sort of
  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions
  • Flashback to 2008 – Friendliest Class Ever
  • Steven Who?
  • 48 Years!?
  • The Delivery
  • Playing Catch Up (Not Mustard)
  • I Guess We’ll See How This Goes
  • Good Morning Ladies and Germs
  • The Island of Pens: How NOT to Sub
  • The Other Side of the Story
  • Blogging the Scoring Session II
  • I Done Been Taught
  • An Unrelated Dog Story
  • State Testing…and etc.
  • State Testing — Tips for Teachers II
  • State Testing–Tips for Teachers… Interrupted
  • The Titanic Finally Really Sinks! (Also: Sidekicks.)
  • Another Step Toward Self-Improvement?
  • The First Step in Solving a Problem is Realizing You Have One. Usually.
  • Classroom Royale
  • Classroom as Casino
  • Drama
  • Back to Work? Who Cares?
  • Vacation Books
  • Relief is Nigh (dot dot dot)
  • A Flower? Phew.
  • Way to Ruin the Mood
  • We Interrupt This Post…
  • Vegas, Baby
  • Heavy Mental
  • Dog Days, Not Just Afternoons
  • Are They Lying? Duh.
  • The Long and Short of It
  • Only in Junior High
  • 90 Times.
  • Rants and Raves
  • Illin’
  • A Moment of Insightful Self-Awareness (and Then It’s Gone)
  • “The Sub Used One of Your Sticks!”
  • The Future of Space Travel
  • Argh…Sometimes I Hate Computers!
  • Blogging the Scoring Session (Part I)
  • No Groove Yet (Also: The Giver and No Homework Returns)
  • Still Here
  • Obligatory Santa Video
  • One Got Fat?
  • Hi?
  • The Bus
  • Stop the Madness
  • “What about the butterflies?”
  • The 12 Days of Christmas?! (Hope it’s not ALL coal.)
  • Reading and a Rerun
  • An E-Mail Only a MS Teacher Could Write
  • mrC’s 7th Grade Report Card
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  • My Personal Approach to BTSA Training
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  • Still Standing…
  • KBAR: The Origin Story
  • First Videos
  • KBAR Part I
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  • Election
  • It’s Go Time!
  • Please Explain This Phenomenon
  • A New Breed
  • What’s This Dang Blog supposed to Be About Anyway?
  • What I Did Instead of Work I Should Have Been Doing
  • Video Class Update
  • BTSN 2011 Rocks!
  • Sweat Baby, Sweat.
  • You Gotta Have a Program!
  • Uh Oh. (Also Cartoons.)
  • Details, Details
  • Day One, Year Nineteen: A Twitter Simulation
  • LAST Post… of Summer. NOT.
  • Junior High Rules; High School Drools — Part I
  • Surprise! (Not a Rerun!)
  • “I was sent to the box…” (Summer Rerun: Rated G+)
  • IHAQ (Summer Rerun)
  • Didja Miss Me? (Summer Reading)
  • What I’m Doing Instead of Blogging
  • Best Misspelling Ever (Also: Research Rerun)
  • Three Weeks
  • You Win Some, You Lose Some.
  • Walk Around
  • Buy Better Erasers
  • Two Tips
  • Why We Do This
  • Interstellar What? (If we ever get there.)
  • Failure Story
  • A Vigorous Observation
  • Be-er?
  • “Can I use the?”
  • “My brain hurts!”
  • Sox and Brewskis (The Writing Process I)
  • Traies?
  • They Sure Done Good This Time
  • This Year’s Book List
  • PIA -3
  • 1st + 1st = 2nd
  • Only in Junior High
  • Blogging the Faculty Meeting III
  • Blogging the Faculty Meeting (Part II)
  • Blogging the Faculty Meeting (Part I)
  • “EWWWW! Why would you volunteer for that?”
  • I Didn’t Ask.
  • Da dum…Da dum Da dum Da dum…Da dum…
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  • Christmas Stories
  • Various…
  • Seventh Graders are Too Easy (Partial Rerun)
  • Grumble…Grumble…Grumble…
  • An Artifact
  • Shtickmeister!
  • Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Tom Sawyer.
  • Dr. Crankenstein
  • I got what I wanted!
  • How do YOU do it?
  • Pssssst. Act!
  • One Flood Over Cuckoo’s Nest
  • “We’re all weird!” (Again.)
  • Masters of Non-Sequitur
  • Ooooh, Scary!
  • Correction: Masters of the Oblivious.
  • Masters of the Obvious – 10/25/10
  • The Secret of the Cool Sub
  • Just This…
  • His Father’s Son. (Also: Collaboration.)
  • Free Speech! (Also: Motor Trend)
  • Mailbag: Writing.
  • “In your face!” (More Commas.)
  • Before the But.
  • Hank v. Prince Redux (Also: Miracle Nap)
  • We might need a second page in the dictionary.
  • The List Grows
  • The Three-Word Phrase List
  • IHAQ’s
  • Clicker Issues
  • Top Nine(?): Books
  • The One-Eyed God
  • Facebook Wall – Old School
  • I can’t believe I’m planning this…
  • Advice Rerun
  • This test tickles.
  • I knew it!
  • Too Good…
  • BTSN ’10: A New Shtick.
  • 8th Grade Material
  • A Rerun, Just to Keep the Streak Alive.
  • Bribery? Maybe. But Who Cares?
  • E-Reader Survey
  • Guest Artist: Advice for Teaching Middle School
  • Normal Use
  • Answers
  • First Day of School Quiz!
  • “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” (E-Books Part I)
  • OH NOOOOOO! (Part I)
  • Wish I had at least one this year…
  • The Five Stages of Grief (in 30 seconds)
  • I’ll take 32, please.
  • “Until you have kids here.” (Not already?!)
  • CSI?
  • Whatever it is…it ain’t working.
  • This is what I’m working with this year.
  • Twits
  • More Mailbag and a New Tom Sawyer Fan.
  • Classroom Mailbag II
  • Classroom Mailbag
  • Guest Artist: Marion Brady
  • Teaching is a Messy Business (Pics Part II)
  • Picture Day (Part I)
  • “This isn’t math!”
  • Your Inner Steamboat.
  • 1903
  • Maybe I could get used to this. Maybe.
  • I Got Nothin’
  • Easy…yet not. (“A Page” Part Two)
  • “Go home and write a page tonight…” (Part One)
  • Grandma’s Hose
  • Permanent Record
  • Soundz!
  • The Timer Redux
  • Integral
  • Staff Development for the Passive Aggressive
  • No, You’re Not.
  • Scrape that Mucus Off Your Brain. (Also: Now I’m the Straight Man.)
  • SBD…
  • Workshop?
  • Everybody’s Special Now. (EInstruction Rules!)
  • Detention. Also: Alternative Careers III.
  • Have a Cigar (Also: Shmartness)
  • “You don’t look as mean!”
  • Test-Taking Tip
  • Shmart?
  • Seventh Grader with a Badge
  • What? What? (Wait for it…) OMG! EWWW!
  • 120 Seconds Book List (So far.)
  • More 120 Seconds Demos.
  • 600 Words a Week? Easy. (Part II)
  • 600 Words!? Every Week?!! Wha? (Part I)
  • Joe Said Yes. (120 Seconds III)
  • “I near pi_ _ed myself.” (120 Seconds II)
  • 120 Seconds – The Two-Minute Book Report. (Remix)
  • Mostly Rerun Because House is Back
  • School Dance!
  • Near Catastrophe
  • Playing God II
  • “You know you missed us!”
  • Vacation Hiatus
  • Playing God (Part One)
  • The Ending (Also: ____ing beyond.)
  • Sweet Release
  • Thank You.
  • “Where do I sit?”
  • Snow?
  • “You may lie.” (Also: MadLib)
  • Parental Units
  • The “Stirrings” (Again)
  • Virtual Mailbag: Yes, I do.
  • Happy Birthday
  • New Material, and OMG, Groups!
  • Only 35% New Shtuff (But it’s Gold.)
  • I SAW You. (Three-Word Phrases II)
  • Nature or Nurture? Intriguing Question.
  • Guest Speaker: False Assumptions
  • Sunny
  • The Scream
  • Guest Artist: Creating Memorable Characters (Also: Chapter 6 rerun.)
  • Gold.
  • 57% New Material (Chapter 5 and Richard Cory)
  • The New (but really old) Quiet Stick
  • Friday Follow-Ups
  • Hank vs. Prince. (Also: “Lean meat?”)
  • 528. (Do the Math II.)
  • Confession
  • “…more than I can chew.”
  • 50% New Material
  • “Can we read Outsiders today?”
  • Dot Dot Dot (Also: 4.7 miles!)
  • #*$@!
  • “But he’s been working so hard.”
  • Snnkkkttt! (Also: Adjectives)
  • No-Brainer
  • 33 % New Material
  • Too Quiet
  • BTSN ’09
  • “Teach”
  • Sheep
  • “Rock Star”
  • Hey Kid! (Guest Speaker)
  • Mailbag: Vocabulary and Grammar
  • Big Hat
  • Mailbag: The Holy Trinity
  • CKD
  • Something New.
  • “Well at first, I was like…”
  • CTEL in SF Part III
  • CTEL Purgatory (Also: The Homeless as Performance Art)
  • Rookie Year – 1991 (Part II)
  • Guest Artist. From 1991.
  • CTEL H-E-Double Toothpicks
  • Do the Math.
  • “There’s already something on the back of mine.” (Also: Racial Harmony.)
  • More Research Follies (Also: “How do I raise my grade?”*)
  • Shameless Hucksterism (CPS.mrcoward.com)
  • Make the Kids do the Work. (Tips III)
  • Out of Bounds
  • Open Mouth Democracy?
  • Research This II. (Also: More Obliviousness.)
  • Research This.
  • A True Blast from the Past (Vacation Filler)
  • Ewww. (Moral Relativism in 7th grade.)
  • Telepathy vs. Reality
  • “I was sent to the box…”
  • I’m back, baby. (Though not officially.) Also: RaffleKing Jr.
  • What’s a Rerun of a Flashback Called?
  • What if they…? (The Gas Effect.)
  • Ouch!
  • Career Opportunities II (Also, homework.)
  • Homework Poll
  • Alternative Careers (Pink Friday Special)
  • Three-Word Phrases
  • Oblivious
  • Insert the G.
  • Mr. Coward’s Snappy Answers to Questions They Should Already Know the Answers To.
  • “I like the old ones better.”
  • “That’s student teacher, not guest teacher.”
  • Flash(way)Back II
  • “We interrupt this tragedy to bring you some comedy…”
  • Flash(way)Back
  • Sometimes they’re actually listening!
  • Lines of the Week (Sandwiches and Spanking?)
  • Super Teacher! (Not me.)
  • Mailbag: Hovercraft? What hovercraft? (Also, Dr. Seuss)
  • Still Here Blogging… (Wiki Wiki)
  • Out-to-Lunch Middle Schoolers Say the Darnedest Things
  • Doodle Prank and Panic
  • TomWikiSawyerPedia
  • There were tears in our eyes.
  • They killed the King!
  • OMG! Haircut!
  • It’s only 120 seconds. (Of terror. Also, more cartoons.)
  • Cartoon Fun II.
  • Cartoon Fun! (Also: The Popple)
  • A Typical Day – Part One (Mailbag IIa)
  • Mailbag I: The Paper Load
  • Politeness Girl
  • “I like how you’re all mean.”
  • “He did?” (Also -ism #9: Am I exempt?)
  • “-isms” Part II (KBAR)
  • “But, what’s a…?”
  • Exemplary
  • “-isms” (Also: mucous)

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