Telling a whodoneit

posted a great visual explanation of how to use a circle to plot. She talks about how in crime fiction, you have two stories going on at once, really–the detective solving the crime, and the story of how the crime happened. To illustrate it to students, she explains: Draw a circle open at the top. … Read more

I get Friday afternoons off now due to new core hours at work. I was going to go for a bike ride, but it was rainy and oppressive outside, so I was going to work out in the gym, but then I remembered a coworker was having a going-away lunch, so I had to go … Read more