{"id":4308,"date":"2011-08-17T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2011-08-17T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:27:33","slug":"the-life-of-a-schoolmarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-life-of-a-schoolmarm\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Schoolmarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_6213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4313\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_6213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_6213.jpg 397w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSC_6213-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a teacher of many grades. It&#8217;s been done before and it has been done more efficiently by countless schoolmarms in sparse schoolhouses without math manipulatives, microscopes, or the internet. I don&#8217;t count myself as being remarkable or unique, but it IS a very exciting life.<\/p>\n<p>My subject matter ranges from early phonics lessons to Dante&#8217;s <em>Inferno<\/em>. In the same day I will answer questions such as, &#8220;What is a mushroom?&#8221; and ask, &#8220;How do roots help trees?&#8221; Later I will teach teach field markings for birds. Then I&#8217;ll correct errors in scientific method questions and give directions for a dissection at my kitchen table. I juggle time periods in history, algebraic algorithms, and geometric proofs. I drill basic addition and multiplication facts and direct Mark to color the longest snake orange and the shortest snake blue. I snicker at inventive stories and correct grammar in book reports; I dictate sentence after sentence for my young elementary student to write. I search out and make up thought-provoking essay questions for the study of classic literature.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I do it?<\/p>\n<p>I have insatiable curiosity, I perceive a necessity, and I love teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a teacher of many grades. It&#8217;s been done before and it has been done more efficiently by countless schoolmarms in sparse schoolhouses without math manipulatives, microscopes, or the internet. I don&#8217;t count myself as being remarkable or unique, but it IS a very exciting life. My subject matter ranges from early phonics lessons to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-life-of-a-schoolmarm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Life as a Schoolmarm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}