Tag: ideas

3/23/22

Forget what stresses you. Embrace and encourage what emboldens and elevates you. Something I’m thinking about tonight. For me, and ALL of you. Enjoy your night. Love, #professormikey

ENGLISH 1A PROMPT – SHORT REACTION #5 PROMPT

Now that you are finished with Sedars’ book, or should be, I have a very specific question for this 5th 2-page reaction, WHICH YOU WILL POST BELOW: Write a letter to me, Mike Madigan, commenting on how David Sedaris has changed the definition of an “essay”, with his style and form of essay writing. Don’t…

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ENGLISH 5 – 5/5/21, WEDNESDAY

5-5:10:  What have you learned about yourself, recently? 5:10-5:35:  Knowing what you want to say IS the essay……. So, what do you want to say?  Where do you start?  What’s the word?  Then what? IDEA:  Start by talking to the reader of your paper….  Like, “Love is something that is inevitable.  Think of the people…

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6/13/20

I believe in the encouragement of others, in their ambitions and aims, current projects and production…. Sharing ideas that in my heart of hearts I find helpful, as they helped me at some point. I don’t look to lead, I aim to elevate.

Something I need to say….

This whole thing is testing us, in a multitude and stormy assembly of ways. I’m quite convinced, though, that this elevates and decides character direction. Many of you in the 1B SRJC crews have written me talking about the dimensions of quarantine, the narrative it provides. The reality that you’re writing its realities and the…

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