Tag: Lesson

2014 was another milestone year for me. I’d been out of prison 16 years and I just started my first technical writing contract at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) — the same system that incarcerated me. The best part of 2014 was that I made one of the...

When I’m not writing, you could call me a soccer mom. But my kids don’t play soccer and of course, I’m not a mom. But I spend a good part of my day chauffeuring my kids to and from school, doctor appointments, or school activities. Occasionally, I also shuttle my kid’s fri...

Society has become insufferably high maintenance. We’re as touchy as a loaded spring. We’ve forgotten how to argue and debate without tearing each other’s heads off, and we silence those with a different point of view. We’re prickly to even the mildest adverse commen...

Changing things in my life has always been really hard for me. When I was a kid, I used to wish that nothing would ever change. I often find myself wishing I could stay in one place with the same people forever. But deep down, I know that’s not how life works. Change is inevitable, even tho...

A group of Cherokee children gathered around their grandfather. They were filled with excitement and curiosity. That day, there had been quite a tumultuous conflict between two adults and their grandfather was called in to mediate. The children were eager to hear what he had to say about it. On...

Having to participate and lead meetings in a second language can be really scary! But, if we have an organized technique for how to do it, it suddenly becomes a lot easier. Here’s a short and practical lesson for how to lead a meeting in English: Example Text: “Hi everybody. Thanks...

During our third week in Buenos Aires, we started to be a bit more active. We had recovered from the tiredness from all our hikes in Ushuaia, and we started to feel the fomo, which is our ennemy during this trip, but also pushes us to go out and discover more. Japanese Garden and Victoria Lake ...

Lockdown has triggered the embarrassing realisation that I didn’t know my own city of Edinburgh as well as I thought. I have lived here for more than two years, visited all my life and considered myself a local expert. The last three months have questioned this belief. In the city I knew so we...

We were returning from our walk. Dusk had fallen as we were returning. Mrs. suggested we take a look inside our new building she had heard so much about. But right outside the building, something else greeted us. Bobby was perched on the horizontal bar of a pole, right inside our lawns, as a smal...

The air shook with anticipation in the fertile valleys of the Sahyadri, a lush land caressed by morning mist amidst its emerald green canopy. Here, Maratha would make a defiant stand against the Mughals, the descendants of Genghis Khan. The Mughal emperor sent Kartalab Khan, who fielded an army of 2...

The recent violence and tragedy in Gaza have profoundly impacted me and led me to recommit myself to my Islamic faith. As I watched the footage of innocent men, women, and children being killed and injured, mosques and homes destroyed, I was filled with sorrow and outrage. But I was also reminded of...

I have come to realize over the last year of the intolerance of the left in almost every front. Their contempt and hatred for anyone who does not completely and totally believe in their ideology has become increasingly obvious over the last year in many fronts. Over the last year they have done ever...

I was at the Dubai airport last night, sitting in the waiting area after checking into the terminal for my next flight to Orlando. I made a few calls home and as soon as I cut the last call, I saw an old lady (late 70s)(lets call her granny) trying to ask me if I spoke her language. Luckily, I knew ...

Racial discrimination and inequality have long been persistent issues in our society. As educators, it is our responsibility to address these issues and promote anti-racist attitudes in the classroom. One way to do this is by incorporating anti-racist content into our lesson plans. Lesson plans a...

Historically, anthropological textbooks have privileged the Euro-centric, White perspective, and have provided limited information on the experiences of the Black African Diaspora, Indigenous people, and those who identify as People of Color (POC). Indeed, many anthropology texts presented non-Europ...

It’s hard to add to the discussion about Julius Caesar. His remarkable life has been studied for centuries and will continue to be, as long as people are interested in ancient Rome. Many find him magnetizing two thousand years after his death. As I detailed a couple of years back, he a...