Dylan Callens's Blog: The Silent Guardian, page 10
August 24, 2022
Kindred: Inclusive Classroom Library
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler is one of our school’s considerations for the grade nine de-streamed classroom. These are my thoughts on whether or not we should include this book in our book club selection. To learn more about our Inclusive Classroom Library Project, please click here.
A Brief Plot Outline
Dana Franklin turned 26 on June 9, 1976. She had just moved into a new apartment with her white husband, Kevin. On ...
August 22, 2022
Fish in a Tree: Inclusive Classroom Library
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt is one of our school’s considerations for the grade nine de-streamed classroom. These are my thoughts on whether or not we should include this book in our book club selection. To learn more about our Inclusive Classroom Library Project, please click here.
A Brief Plot Outline
Ally is a grade six student who has changed schools several times because her father is in the military. Al...
August 21, 2022
Sufferance: Inclusive Classroom Library
Sufferance by Thomas King is one of our school’s considerations for the grade nine de-streamed classroom. These are my thoughts on whether or not we should include this book in our book club selection. To learn more about our Inclusive Classroom Library Project, please click here.
A Brief Plot Outline
Jeremiah Camp can make predictions based on a given set of patterns. At some point in his past, he saw something so di...
August 20, 2022
We Do What We Do In the Dark: Inclusive Classes
We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart is one of our school’s considerations for the grade nine de-streamed classroom. These are my thoughts on whether or not we should include this book in our book club selection. To learn more about our Inclusive Classroom Library Project, please click here.
A Brief Plot Outline
Mallory is a quiet, reserved girl who retreats into her own world. This becomes especially true af...
August 19, 2022
An Interview with Dylan Callens
Cosmic Teapot – Today, we’re talking with Dylan Callens, author of And the Cow Jumped Over the Blue Moon. It is a hilarious novel about a narrator who takes over the storytelling duties of a ship that is lost in space. How did you come up with the idea?
Dylan Callens – At first, it wasn’t like that at all. I was writing a funny little space opera kind of story. About halfway through the story, I wrote this bit about ...
August 17, 2022
Dear Martin: Book Club Contender
Dear Martin by Nic Stone is one of our school’s considerations for the grade nine de-streamed classroom. These are my thoughts on Dear Martin as a Book Club contender. To learn more about our Inclusive Classroom Library Project, please click here.
A Brief Plot Outline
Justyce McAllister, a black, seventeen-year-old boy, writes letters to Martin Luther King as part of a personal project to better himself. Justyce, from...
The Inclusive Classroom Library Project
As of September 2022, grade nine education in Ontario will be de-streamed. Ontario is the only province in Canada to divide students into different pathways in grade nine. The unfortunate consequence of this practice is that it puts black, indigenous, low-income, and students with special needs at a greater risk of not graduating.
I don’t know if de-streaming h...
January 24, 2022
Soricada
The Soricada is a work of fiction.
The name is taken from a Sorex hoyi, or The American Pygmy Shrew. It is one of the hungriest animals on Earth, much like the Soricada. Hopefully you can see that Sorex = Soricada.
Ego’s joke (of which he is very proud) is derived from the combination of “Taming” and “Shrew”. Now, aren’t you glad that you took the time to look it up?
...June 12, 2021
Google Ruined My Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Enjoy this Google Shakespeare Translation of Sonnet 18. It is delightful nonsense that will keep you guessing and laughing at what could be next. If you enjoy it, be sure to check out Richard Pickman’s new “Google Ruined My…” books.
Romeo and Juliet - Act 2, Scene 2O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy...
April 25, 2021
Practicing my PAO Table
Over the past five days, I’ve been memorizing my person-action-object table. I spent the first three days placing each PAO in its own loci. I did about thirty numbers each day.
That process went smoothly. On average, it only took about ten to fifteen minutes to encode and recall thirty PAO. Whenever I had a quiet moment, I’d run through the PAO to reinforce my memory. I’d try to identify them in different ways. Som...
