I am always more comfortable splitting a check, no matter who asked who. But two men I've dated, one of whom I married, were adamant about paying, saying it didn't feel like a date unless they did. In both cases this was sweetly old-fashioned and not aggressive or obnoxious, otherwise there would have been no more dates, and certainly no marriage.
I think one place it gets confusing - or used to to me; I haven't dated in 10 years - it sometimes it's not clear what is "a date" and what is "friends going out" and it's also not always clear just who asked whom.
hey, i just got call that i have an elective i can teach! Help a high school teacher out -- thoughts?
Are you asking for a subject to teach?
Laugh and say, “I don’t think my girlfriend/boyfriend would approve.”
So those of us who have no GF/BF should lie?
If you’re not sure if you’re being asked out, just drop an unmistakable hint into the conversation referring to your heterosexuality.
How would one do that?
For some reason, that's something I make a point to
never
do...
I paid for ita's dinner a few times. I didn't notice a power struggle. Must be a dating thing.
In reality, I bend/snap the needle, recap them, and toss them into a juice carton. When the carton is full, it goes into the dumpster.
This is what I've been doing, minus the bending. I think my vet does have a biohazard box though. I should look into that.
It's "Appreciation of Literature" for mainly 11th and 12th graders. Which means I can teach a bunch of stuff I don't have time for in my other classes.
I'm giddy with power.
WHat books had an impact on y'all in high school? Or, what books would you recommend?
random thought -- teach how your perspective on literature changes with experience and age. Have them reread a popular YA book, like Bridge to Terabithia or A Wrinkle in Time, and talk about how they view it now as opposed to when they first read it.
Erin, could you do short stories or novellas? Then you can do a range of authors and periods and genres. So you can aim more for "something for everyone" instead of trying to think of a single novel that everyone's going to get excited about.
Most of my kids are ESL or Latina/o students. A lot of stuff I consider classics, they've never read.
A concept I'm toying with: chronological exposure to lit: Socrates, Beowulf, Canturbury Tales, Renn poets (Herbert, Herrick, Donne), Romantic poets, the novel (Pride and Prejudice? Frankenstein?), um...then into Americana -- Whitman, Hawthorne SStories, Fitzgerald, Millay, and then end with modern, like Kazuo Ishiguro's newest?
I dunno. I could do genre lit, too: the romance! the gothic! the comedy of manners!
I will definitely include SS's, but it's a year course, so I want to teach a couple of novels, too.
