Mr. Locke’s Classroom

My apologies for the long delay in updating the good ol’ blog–please bear with me as I learn to divide my time between family, school, and the blogosphere… For my freshmen, I finally updated the English One Page to include your assignments and such for this six weeks. If you want, you may get a [...]

Looks like we made it safely through the first week. Yesterday at 12:11 was Grady’s one week birthday, and although I don’t specifically remember (it’s all a blur of feeding, changing, and sleeping) we probably celebrated with a fountain of bodily fluid… I joke about the lack of sleep and the messy diapers, but when [...]

Today was “dress up Grady” day at the Locke household. Mom and Grandma decided it was time to put some of those cute outfits to use in an all-out photo shoot. The one pictured above was from his Grandpa Jerry, of course. Grady might have enjoyed all the attention, except that he slept through the [...]

This is a difficult story. Readers who finish this one will generally have a strong reaction to the events leading up to the “murder.” And that’s precisely what I think Steinbeck was going for. One of the difficult things about this story is the traditions and customs of other, foreign cultures. It’s very easy for [...]

We’ve learned a few things about our little son in the few days since he’s taken over our home… Like, for example, his habit of falling asleep as soon as he starts to nurse, which means he doesn’t get much eating done, which means he wakes up cranky, which means we feed him, and instantly [...]

Alright–as of today, my freshman should have finished the A&E Biography of John Steinbeck, so here’s a chance to comment. I realize that documentaries are by nature very different than movies you might be used to watching–no car chase scenes, no huge gun fights and violent deaths by the thousands–but Steinbeck did have a pretty [...]