Philip DeFranco breaks down the chilling attacks on freedom of speech:

Trump’s Charlie Kirk Free Speech Crackdown is Worse Than Expected & New Suspect’s Texts Released

Started: Thirty-Eight Latin Stories by Anne H. Gorton and James M. May

I'm also using the Teacher's Guide:

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Started: The Student's Catullus by Daniel H. Garrison

Quizlet Folder HERE

1. Dedication to Cornelius

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* Alphabet Chart PDF

I've been using this Alphabet Chart for my students who are still learning the alphabet.
I'm sure there are a million different alphabet charts out there, but this was the first one that popped up on a Google search, so this is what I went with.  And it's been working well for me.

Slideshow and Cards for A,B,C,D,E,F

(TESOL Materials--Alphabet)

Google Drive HERE
Slideshow: slides, pub
Grab the Card: drive, docs, pub

[Note: These are materials that I originally posted as supplementary materials for English World 1 Welcome Unit p.5.  I'm reposting them again here as general purpose activities for practicing the first six letters of the alphabet.  The slideshow is for drilling the vocabulary.  The worksheet is to be cut up into individual cards  before class.  It can then be used for matching games, memory games, or grab the card games.]

Alphabet

(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)

* Slideshow and Cards for A,B,C,D,E,F

* LINK: Alphabet Chart PDF

* Flippity.net Quiz Show Game for Plural Nouns, am is are, and collective nouns

This is a quiz show game from Flippity.net.  The template is here (docs, pub), and the link for game play is here.

In my class, I use it as a review game to review several previous lessons (here, here and here).  The quiz contains categories on singular and plural nouns, am is are, and collective nouns.

am is are

(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)

* Bamboozle Game for Am/Is/Are (Subject Verb Agreement)

* Flippity.net Quiz Show Game for Plural Nouns, am is are, and collective nouns

Prepositions of Place Lesson (in front of, behind, next to, between) based on English World 2

(TESOL Materials--Prepositions of Place)

Prepositions of Place Lesson slideshow: slides, pub

Youtube video here

[Notes: I recently went back to the supplemental materials I had developed for English World 2 Unit 9 Grammar p.94, and decided to tweak them slightly for the purposes of making the slideshow stand independent of the textbook, as a stand alone lesson on Prepositions of Place.  I was able to do this thanks to a Youtube video here, which has the key parts from the audio.]

Reichstag fire--Interesting Random Facts

From Wikipedia:

The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, pronounced [ˈʁaɪçstaːksˌbʁant] ^ⓘ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was said to be the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists

And later down the same article under Political Consequences:

The day after the fire, at Hitler's request, President Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree into law by using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone.^[19] These rights were not reinstated during Nazi reign. The decree was used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered friendly to the Nazi cause. Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have acted alone in the Reichstag fire, Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announced that it was the start of a wider communist effort to take over Germany. Nazi Party newspapers then published this fabricated story.^[19] This sent the German population into a panic and isolated the communists further among the civilians; additionally, thousands of communists were imprisoned in the days following the fire (including leaders of the Communist Party of Germany) on the charge that the Party was preparing to stage a putsch. Speaking to Rudolph Diels about communists during the Reichstag fire, Hitler said "These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side. In their mouse-holes, out of which they now want to come, of course they hear nothing of the cheering of the masses."

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.

1/ Here's what's happening. https://t.co/UI8X9EabBR

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 14, 2025

This whole thread is worth reading.