winners of the Bible Jeopardy challenge today – don’t get me started on all the mistakes we made – starting with the team name…

“Running with Phidippides” – amazing story of the 1946 boston marathon winner – he was from greece – survived the nazi occupation for five years – five years of starvation for his people – after seven years off running – he decided december ’45 to run and win boston – in four months time – and he went out and did just that – which is truly remarkable – very inspiring story

“eight keys” – okay, lil bri – help an old man out – this was elem BOB, right??? it was better than anything at the middle school – and ironically about middle school – 6th grade – but it wasn’t great – at all

“the last season” – awesome book about a political strategist who at 60, took a fall off and took his 95-year old father – and 86 year old mother – around for ole miss’s 2013 football season – included flashbacks of going to the games in the 1960s – just a heart-warming amazing read – all my guys that love football and have watched it with their dads would love this book

“swimming upstream” – i’ve got a ton of ideas from this book for teaching next year – just for starters… i want to teach everyone to be a Detective – rather than get a bad grade on a quiz and say “I’m a failure/loser/never going to get this” – treat it like evidence – and you’re a detective – would the evidence really confirm that you’re a failure/loser – or would it just say that you didn’t do well on one quiz? for my kids that overtrust their emotions, i think the detective thing is a good way to pull back from that – thoughts???

maf