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Right before the young pipel was hanged, I gave my class a warning that the next 2 pages would be really sad, and one kid said, "This is already sad." 🥲

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We're having great classroom conversations about not repeating history and how important it was that Elie got to stay with his dad.

A little disappointed that, for the first time since I've been teaching this book, the kids were mostly unfazed about the people crammed into the cattle car and still trying to canoodle on the way to Auschwitz 😆. Although one kid did say, "But Miss, it's a great stress reliever!" 💀. Then I got roasted for laughing too hard at that 😒. Can't win against Gen Alpha kids 😮‍💨.

Reading with my students. I have 6 different sections of class periods, so does this count as 6 books read toward my goal? lol

I've been listening while working on lesson plans and laminating things. Giggling, kicking my feet, and smiling like an idiot the entire time.

"We should be required to take flight from time to time, to see anew, to see how small and fragile we are."

"Next you'll tell me that an anagram of funeral is real fun." 🤣🤣

"We sat staring straight ahead, never touching, speaking more in the pauses, and yet still, if you listened closely, said I love you."

"Your stupidity takes my breath away."
looooool BURN

"Aren't we all more than our resume? Aren't we more than the college we attended and the places we've worked? Aren't we a million things that are so subtle and nuanced that most people never see them or experience them?"

"like trying to hide thunder under thankful"

"He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none."

"His road would be hard enough without the hurt we might do each other."

Been in a slump and unable to read anything since finishing this last time, so why not read it again??

I haven't been able to read anything since I finished Sunrise on the Reaping. Bad slump.

"Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart."
Wise words from Finnick.

An interesting philosophical dilemma here: how should "the enemy" (Katniss's prep team from the Capitol) be treated if they were raised to know nothing else and know no other way of life?

Ngl it took me a minute to get into this one, but now We! Are! Here! Hoping I can get it all read today because, otherwise, I may get nothing done this week 😅

"I'm nobody's idea of a hero[.] But at least I'm still in the game."

Changing this to my new email signature book quote!

"I remember how Mamaw always said, 'Where there's life, there's hope.' But from where I'm sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you'll end up paying for it twice."

"A fragile collection of muscles and bones, a few quarts of blood, wrapped up in a paper-thin package of skin. That's all I am. [...] I have never felt more breakable."

"You know what they say about the circus."
"What, that the show must go on?"
"No. That the show can't begin until you jump."

Habit [is] the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

So excited to be on the ARC team again! I love this series.

"I also think God must love us all very much to give us Kansas sunsets and beer."

"Sometimes freedom is worth the discomfort."

Looooool ok I have a new bucket list item. I want to volunteer to read spicy romance books aloud to chemo patients 🤣 How can I actually make this happen??