Bothsidesism – also called false balance, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports. Cloze Activity- Activity in which words are removed from a passage for a learner to fill in as an exercise in reading comprehension. Confirmation bias – the tendencyContinue reading “May Notes”
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March Notes
If I knew anything about being black in America it was that nothing was guaranteed, you couldn’t count on a thing, and all that was certain for most of us was a black death. In my mind, a black death was a slow death, the accumulation of insults, injuries, neglect, second-rate health care, high bloodContinue reading “March Notes”
Happy New Year
Calvin and Hobbes taught life lessons.
Decorating Eggs
One of the highlights of 2023 was going with Roxana on a date to the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, Mass, on March 25th, 2023, to make fancy Easter eggs. Ukrainian pysanky eggs are decorated using a wax-resist method, resulting in unique Easter egg designs that are deeply symbolic and meaningful. Making pysanky eggs requiresContinue reading “Decorating Eggs”
Fall Gallery
Bullseyes and Converstaion
The Rivers School Archery Club hosted a clinic with On The Mark Archery on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at the Rivers School in Weston, MA.
October 2023 Notes
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Luchadoras – the masked female wrestlers who use the sport for empowerment and are cultural icons in Mexico Solopreneurship is a distinctive approach to entrepreneurship where an individual operates and manages a business single-handedly. According to aContinue reading “October 2023 Notes”
August Notes
Tessellation – tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include regular tilings with regularContinue reading “August Notes”
July Notes
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” – Franz Kafka Box Breathing: Box breathing is a technique that helps to control and regulate breathing, which calms the mind and reduces stress. It involves inhaling for four counts, holding for four counts,Continue reading “July Notes”
Who I am
My prompt for the drawings this year is: Who I Am.
Relentless Robin 