The Butcher Shop

I came across these old writings on my old blog that are worth looking at again . Here's one called " We Want to Succeed " but sometimes I don't think kids let educators educate them . Sometimes it is more of a fight , a knockdown , drag out fight . During summer school, I have the chance to catch up on my academic reading. Some ACT reports on college readiness and some other journal articles. I have to know what these places think of my English classroom.  However, I dislike the sweeping, broad strokes of disapproval without having much specific concrete steps on what teachers should be doing. I am one of those teachers who, if you tell me the kids need this stuff, I will put it into the curriculum. If you tell me to make sure a process is taught, I will teach it. If you tell me to take something out, I will do it. This year, I will be adding more grammar in the fall. I will be adding some more writing responses with specific r...

Matthew Butcher History 102 Unit 5 paper August 1, 1995 Machiavelli's The Prince Renaissance Italy had many new startling political developments in the fifteenth century.  Italy saw the expansion of smaller city-states as the major governing powers.  There were five major powers and some independent city-states that dominated the peninsula.  These provinces had the same notable factor:  a strong ruler that governed with the express idea of improving his kingdom.  The Italian Renaissance was thus preoccupied with political power.  Italians remained loyal to their own states.  This brought about the birth of modern diplomacy, where the pursuits of the individual state took precedence over any other interests.  This individualism of the state also produced the power struggle over the peninsula by the Italians and the French and Spanish monarchies.  Wishing to help only the individual state, Italian rulers fought with each other and with th...