Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas

teacher, @WTHSMSA faculty advisor, mother, wife, storyteller, advocate, @IATEnow Past Pres., curriculum writer, ADHD thriver, pen-clicker. she/her

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@CarolJago Doing that this week with these two gems!

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@mekkaokerekebye Man, I’m just your friendly neighborhood English teacher and all this attention is super weird. But your tweets made my day!

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@j_amesmarriott Please consider reading this follow up. I was cited in the article and misrepresented. https://t.co/xVzZ5KdIKW

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@educationgadfly @rosehorowitch @TheAtlantic @MichaelPetrilli Please read my response. As someone mentioned in the article, I’m disappointed in how my words were used by the author. https://t.co/xVzZ5KdIKW

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@publicroad Hi. I am that teacher. My words were deeply misrepresented. I hope you’ll read my response here: https://t.co/xVzZ5KdIKW

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@mekkaokerekebye Yes! And what also changes is language! I don’t think it’s fair to put a pin in the literary timeline and not acknowledge the ongoing linguistic development of the English language.

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

While I agree that we must keep reading, I am disappointed by Horowitch’s reporting. Speaking as the “one public-high-school teacher in Illinois quoted in the article,” I’ve filled in the considerable gaps here: https://t.co/xVzZ5KdaVo

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

At elite colleges like Columbia, many students are showing up unprepared to read full books. It’s not that they don’t want to, @rosehorowitch writes. Middle and high schools have stopped teaching them how: https://t.co/mC5JpaC15M

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@CarolJago While I agree that we must keep reading, I am disappointed by Horowitch’s reporting. Speaking as the “one public-high-school teacher in Illinois quoted in the article,” I’ve filled in the considerable gaps here: https://t.co/xVzZ5KdaVo

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@CarolJago 💔

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@KyleLukoff Something good: My students (high school creative writing) asked to do “the collective noun thing” as a warm up again -Storytelling of Ravens and your collective-noun-for-ourselves… it’s a favorite and they love it. 😊💙 -with love from a “revision” of young writers.

[Dr Rebecca Richardson @mavisclare]

In awe of the student who, after asking for a letter of rec, sent me a Google doc of advice for letter writers, links to the essays he'd written in my classes, copies of my comments on his writing, *and* a list of his memories & takeaways from each class 💫

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

Had to return to this platform because, I think, the only one who can appreciate my surprise arriving at my brother’s house to find we dressed as Odyssey Book 9 (EW translation) is the goddess herself, @emilyrcwilson

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

We are absolutely on pins and needles trying to figure out who did it! Thank you, @PrisCummings! I think it’s Marcellus. 📚⭐️🚣🏻‍♂️ #redkayak

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

Friend? You mean that thing that killed Julius Caesar…. Just kidding. But I want to know who to thank!

[Angie Thomas @angiecthomas]

The Angie Thomas Writers scholarship is a full ride scholarship at my alma mater @BelhavenU for an aspiring young writer. Educators, please pass this along.

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

Because @madlilMax loves all things @andyweirauthor …he’s turning 11 on Mars this year. (I regret failing to take a picture of the outstanding potato bar we had for lunch…) 🚀🥔👨‍🚀🧁

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@heymrsbond Thank you! This is so helpful -especially the check for reply. I’m always baffled when they ask if I got the email I’d already replied to.

[KC Davis @KCDavisSays]

Just saw this thread by @NomeDaBarbarian posted on tiktok and CAN A NEUROTYPICAL PERSON CONFIRM BC WHAT?!? You mean you do things w/o actively making a new choice to do it every time you do it and you dont have to exert the same energy to make yourself do it every time?

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@MoniseLSeward My family knows. I need a good 3-4 day hibernation, followed by a week of cleaning and yard work before it’s “really” summer.

[Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas @CMSThomas]

@heymrsbond This is my favorite questions! I wish I could have book amnesia and read Life of Pi and American Gods. So jealous of the people who get to read these stories for the first time yet!