Had a rough couple of weeks with my newly-diagnosed diabetic dog, Pudge. I told my students--during the time he was at the vet and we weren't sure he was going to live or see again after finding him in a diabetic coma--that I wanted to write only good memories about him in my notebook--that I wasn't ready to write sad things.
Anyway, I ended up revising my entire "Song Parody" lesson online based on two pages I recently added to my own notebook. Not surprising, one of the new pages is a song parody about my wife and I having to give him twice-daily insulin shots and blood tests.
I believe in teachers keeping writer's notebooks to show their students. My students were very much inspired by my two new pages over the past few weeks. Here's one of them:
