Barbara Thompson

A Rare Find

Friday, November 4, 2022 I was really looking forward to work today, because the boys’ soccer (football!) team was playing for the state championship at US Bank Stadium (home of the Vikings) at 10:15am. That meant most of the kids would not be at school for most of the day. Wheeeeee. Since the 9th graders

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Historicity

Thursday, October 27, 2022 I learned a new word today! Historicity means historical authenticity, as in “to discuss the historicity of miracles…”. I was reading about Ralph Waldo Emerson (simply referred to as Waldo in our discussions, because why not?) with an 11th grade student and I read historicity out loud and stopped. I looked

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