Every year in AP Seminar, the students are given a stimulus packet from College Board for their second performance task. I'll spare you the details about PT2 (as we call it), but the basic idea is that the kids have to read through the documents, figure out the theme of the documents, and research some … Continue reading Nostalgia
Month: May 2025
Words of the Week…From Three Years Ago
I run out of ideas a lot. No, that's not really true. I have multiple notebooks of topics that I could write about. It's more a matter of sitting down and working on it. Motivation. Time. Energy. Procrastination. Anyway, I write down these ideas and then stick them in this gray notebook I have stuffed … Continue reading Words of the Week…From Three Years Ago
Arlo, From Pomona
Author's Note: Late last year, I entered a short story contest put on by NYC Midnight. The first round was in January with the results coming out on April 1. We were given a genre, character, and setting that had to be incorporated into a short story of 2500 words or less. We were given … Continue reading Arlo, From Pomona



