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Charlie 🏳️‍🌈
@charlie-hughes.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 lesbian, 🖋️poet, 🎨 doodler, middle school 📚 ELA and 📐math teacher
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80’s baby. 22 schools in 12 states and BC. Teaching in the red trenches of West Virginia. Books, poetry, theater, art, coffee.

Most likely to succeed, dropped out of the race.
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Went to a book fair for remaindered books and got a few for me an a haul for my classroom. (Left are mine)

Last month’s chastisement from the overlords that I have innapropriate books made me nervous but I stuck to my guns and bought what I thought the kids would connect with.
April 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 19/30

In honor of my spending a week of middle school immersed in Ancient Greece, my quote is from the Iliad by Homer.
April 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
April 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 15/30

(I’ve fallen woefully behind on this challenge-went out of town for my anniversary)

From A Good Man Is Hard To Find:
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
April 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Life update:

Due to many snow days, the school I work for is going straight through spring break. In an effort to keep it from being the worst week ever, we’re instituting Ancient Greek Week with toga party.

Thus…

this morning I taught Euclid’s Postulates to 8th graders while wearing a sheet.
April 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
💙📚 #bookchallenge #bookrecommend

Posting a book recommendation—

Stories of Nikolai Gogol

Especially “The Overcoat”
April 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
April 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too
💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge

Cornucopia
By Molly Peacock
April 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 8/30

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love this one so much it’s on my classroom door.
April 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 7/30

Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#art #sketch #doodle #procreate (model from Pinterest)

AM doodle
April 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
April 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 5/30

From O Pioneers!
By Willa Cather
April 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too
💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge

Deep Lane
By Mark Doty
April 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge

Day 30: the book you’re reading right now

The Sweet Hereafter
By Russell Banks
April 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#art #sketch #procreate #doodle

AM doodle

I miss wired headphones 💔
April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#queerwriters #poet #poetry
#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity

Bit of a work in process

I spent time, as a kid, living near remains of the Japanese Internment camp, Manzanar. If you don’t know this ugly bit of US history, it’s worth noting. These days, it’s a Nat’l Historic site.
April 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge

Day 29: book cover you love

Tbh I don’t have a lot of book covers that stand out…

I have a slightly beat up version of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that I’ve always liked the ink silhouette on the cover.
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
April 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too
💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge

Arias
By Sharon Olds
April 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 4/30

Quote from Kafka On The Shore
By Haruki Murakami

I want a Greek chorus too!
April 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 3/30

Quote from Pride And Prejudice
By Jane Austen

Charlotte explaining to Elizabeth why she has accepted Mr. Collin’s proposal.
April 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky

Day 2/30 missed a couple of days. I’m playing catch up.

Quote from Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens

A description of Miss Havisham near the end.
April 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
April 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM