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bethcteach.bsky.social
The Introverted English Teacher
@bethcteach.bsky.social
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Reader, writer, & learner who believes in the power of stories & storytelling to create empathy.

25 years as a public school teacher find me enjoying the teenagers and hating the bs.
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Your new rescue looks my sweet senior doggo!
A black and white dog looks at the camera; he is the sweetest.
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The start of August has me like
A black and white dog, his body and most of his face covered by a curtain, peeks at you as though he is Emperor Palpatine as he hides from the day.
July 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I’m attaching a screenshot of what she said.

Best of luck this next school year!
I would say definitely take advantage of a digital calendar and some sort of LMS (whether that is Google Classroom or Canvas) from the teacher end. I would also say from the teacher end that on the first day of class for each week to make sure to schedule in “housekeeping stuff”. It will also be important for departments and/or grade levels to plan together in order for big assignments/assessments/projects to not overlap as much as possible. For student side of things it is imperative to start using the digital calendar, and I would even say some sort of paper calendar to get started. Ideally there would be some homeroom situation where students could organize themselves each week. The schedule I was on had one day each week (Mondays) where they attended all classes in one day in order to keep organized.
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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That was fun!
A chart that claims I am 50.9% Goth, 87.3% Nerd, placing you in the LARP category; a dot in the bottom right of the chart. Teen says “I could see that”. Haha
July 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Thorton sends you a timeline cleanse and advises you to eat that treat you’ve been saving, like he’s about to do.
A black dog with a white chest and a white band around his nose looks up. His tongue is slightly out in anticipation of the greenie he’s about to get.
June 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
bethcteach.bsky.social
Ooh! There are so many great k-dramas out there!

I’m enjoying First Night with the Duke, but it’s not 100% released, so I reserve judgement about the quality.

Hands down, my favorite is My Dearest, a gorgeous panoply of love amidst war, tragedy, and ultimately, growth and self discovery.
Soft focus featuring a man in a blue hanbok with his hand wrapped around the face of a young g woman in a bright yellow and green hanbok. The foreground is out of focus, but the spring green of the tall grass echoes across the field. The sun is setting, casting peach and yellow light over the scene. There are words in Hangul in the upper left, which might be My Dearest, the English title of the work.
June 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This was fun; I now want to know which one I missed.
Congratulations! Your MIST-16 results: 15/16 Veracity Discernment: 87.5% (ability to accurately distinguish real news from fake news) Real News Detection: 87.5% (ability to correctly identify real news) Fake News Detection: 100.0% (ability to correctly identify fake news) Distrust/Naïvité: -1 (ranges from -8 to +8, overly skeptical to overly gullible) Your ability to recognize real and fake news is great! You might be a bit skeptical when it comes to the news.
May 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A black dog with a white stripe on his nose gazes at you from on top of a pile of cozy blankets
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Thorton rests his sweet face on your lap to cheer you up.
The face of a mostly black dog is close up to the camera, with his black nose surrounded by white fur and a thin racing stripe of white just between the eyes. He is resting his head on a blanket.
January 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Thorton follows me everywhere; you never know when there will be snacks or a walk.
A short haired mostly black dog keeps his eyes on me as many hours of the day as possible. He is lying on the floor with his head turned toward the camera; both white tipped back legs stretch underneath him. One front white leg is curled under and one is stretched out before. He wants to know if you have snacks.
January 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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During Winter Break, I started playing Stalker 2, admittedly on easy mode.

It reminds me so much of what I loved from Red Dead Redemption 2, Skyrim, and the Fallout games. Open world exploration with an enjoyable storyline.

I got stuck in SIRCA b/c of a bug; if on xbox, avoid there for now.
Text on the image says Stalker 2 Heart of Chornobyl 2025. In the mid ground, the image is of a person in three quarters view, in shades of green, gray, yellow and brown. They are wearing a gas mask and carrying a pack on their back. In the background, there are shadowy images of towers shrouded by gray clouds.
January 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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It is an image of Preston Garvey from Fallout 4, superimposed with the words “You’ve scrolled through a lot of memes, but a settlement needs your help. Here, let me mark it on your map.”
December 31, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Burning the old year by Naomi Shihab Nye is always a good one. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48597/...
Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space. I begin again with the smallest numbers. Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves, only the things I didn’t do crackle after the blazing dies.
December 28, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Thorton falls asleep on the bed; he sends you peaceful, cuddly vibes.
A close up photo of the face of a mostly black dog with a white bad around his black nose. He is falling asleep, and you can see the grizzled white fur invading his black fur, and the white stripe that runs up between his eyes.
December 11, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Gorgeous winter sky tonight; reminds me of a Maxfield Parrish painting.
The sky from inside our truck window looks like pink cotton candy strewn across an ombré baby blue to mandarin orange horizon. The parking lot looks bare below this cornucopia of color.
December 7, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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😂—guess I’ve gently admonished about ALT one too many times!

My favorite part—“A blend of casual yet informative—it's like if your high school English teacher also had a TikTok account. You balance serious commentary with light-hearted memes, making every scroll a mini-classroom experience.”
The Alt-Text Aficionado: Teaching Us All How to Engage Online Meet the Introverted English Teacher who’s redefining digital empathy and meme culture, one alt-text at a time. " Equal parts insightful educator and meme factory, with a sprinkle of chaos.
November 30, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Thorton says we should rest because it’s too cold tonight.
A mostly black dog with a grizzled face, white muzzle, and white legs rests his muzzle on a pillow and arm of a couch.
November 29, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Good morning, friends!

Found out at the union meeting last night that the “stealth spirit week” for teachers comes from TikTok. It’s been a bright spot in my week.

Today is “anything but a water bottle.”

Here’s what I’m bringing:
The top of an electric stove, with two pans in the background, and in the foreground, an empty Nescafé glass bottle that formerly held instant coffee
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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When I post on my iPad from the camera roll, I can click to add alt text, circled in blue on this screenshot.
The letter ALT are circled in blue and black on this screenshot of the image Scott posted earlier. This image describes a session he and Chanea Bond are presenting.
November 18, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Here’s the thumbnail from 2018; it’s a series. Gorgeous, heartrending, I really loved the retelling.
The thumbnail of 2018 Watership down shows the backs of two rabbits looking through a wire fence. The sky is like a Maxfield Parrish painting, all pinks, oranges, and light blues, and in the foreground there are wild flowers and tall grass.
November 14, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Thorton gives epic side eye to whoever is making life tough for you.
A black dog with white chest and smirks as he looks to the right; the white blaze on his nose and speckles on his legs make him look distinguished
October 24, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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This was the most fun I’ve had all day.

Choose your own adventure Check out my Veggie ID! You can create yours at sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/
An image of a slide that declares I am Bok Choy. Chaotic Good, positive, and more. It’s super hilarious and includes that Bok Choy loves to sing karaoke, which I do not.
October 22, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Anxious about anything?

Thorton is here to say it’ll be okay!
A black and white mid sized border collie lab mix grins at the camera, his white tipped tail a slight blur. His chest and front legs are white with the occasional black spot. Visible is one back leg, all black with a white tipped foot.
October 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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Borges is one of the reasons I am so glad KSU had us take Literatura de las Américas.

Gorgeous.

Each of Us a Desert by @markdoesstuff.bsky.social reminds me of him.
The cover of Each of Us a Desert has a contras blue green background with an orange at the top center sun and an orange triangle at the bottom. The triangle has a subtle shadow in darker orange of a person’s face and says “Find where you belong” in white font.
October 18, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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Just finishing up a rewatch of My Dearest. So sad and so sweet.

Anyone have any awesome kdrama suggestions that are at least a little happy at the end?
Two people on a beach; on the left, a woman facing a man, both in Joseon era attire. The colors are all pastel, and include the words My Dearest in English.
October 17, 2024 at 11:12 PM