Our racial justice unit asks students to examine texts such as the documentary “13th,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” Kehinde Wiley paintings, and music videos and song lyrics by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar. But last year I also asked students to read the article “The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America” by Alana Semuels in order to understand their own state’s history of racist laws, redlining and gentrification. They also read “Students Have the Right to #takeaknee” by the Oregon A.C.L.U., which describes an incident in their own school when football players’ First Amendment rights were denied by their coach.

We will also be looking at “The Taming of the Shrew” in the context of the #MeToo movement. We will be looking at portions of “Nanette” and how power, gender and misogyny manifest in today’s American narrative. At every step of the school year we should be incorporating current events into our E.L.A. classroom, disrupting the canon with diverse secondary sources, and giving students choice in both reading and writing. Reframe the context of the novel. Allow your students to see their world through the literature.

With the new iPhones, however, that adapter is no longer in the box. Instead, if you want to use your wired headphones with your new iPhone, you’ll need to pony up another $9 to buy the dongle from Apple, even after spending at least $749 for your shiny new iPhone XR, $999 for the iPhone XS or $1099 for the iPhone XS Max – that is, for the base models. 

Because my subject, life sciences, cover health, medicine, the environment and biotechnology as well as the traditional biological processes, it is really important to address current events. I love the idea of using The New York Times’s ScienceTake video series to begin a class. This one, on how spiders fly, was fascinating and relevant.

Bird cleverly faked the screen, spun and took a few hard steps out toward DJ, then retreated toward the left corner to create an opening for just an instant.

Follow along as we replace the radiator, fan shroud and other cooling system components on a modified 1964 Corvette coupe.

Then Johnson smartly changed his tone from critical to encouraging. "Come on fellas, plenty of time," he enthused. It was a prescient move that a less mature Johnson would not have been able to make in 1984, when his gaffes helped cost LA a thrilling seven-game championship series loss to the Celtics and Larry Legend.

"We all got on the plane, and then we were sitting there for a while. All of a sudden someone came over the intercom and said that we all had to deplane. I thought something was wrong with the engine," Papesch said. "I kept hearing things about a squirrel, so I was asking people around me and someone said we did have to deplane because of a squirrel." 

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Gina Taterus of A Coastal Home went more nautical with these two extra-long single beds. To cut down on weight, Taterus paired with a local millworker to create the base platforms from ¾-inch plywood; a 3½-inch edge trim was then added around the base of the bed to create the illusion that it was a solid piece of teak.

If you wish to contact author Cort Reynolds directly, you can email him at cdrada2433@yahoo.com. This game is available to watch on line to verify the many highly questionable calls detailed herein.

An angry Johnson berated his teammates. "How could you leave him alone?" he asked his club in their huddle, as reported in WTGWO. "Everyone in the building knew he was taking that shot. Did any of you actually doubt he could hit it?"