About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
ROHS Course Catalog – 2009
Given a chance to re-create the Course Catalog for 2009-2010, and just in time for scheduling day, I offer the following new course proposals for you. Have an idea I forgot? Add it! Philosophy: Ethics Students will spend the semester pondering and arguing the...
False Gems: Internet Morality
If it's make believe, what does it matter? A recent study by psychologist Howard Gardner (he's the guy who came up with the multiple intelligences theory) reveals that students are rather hypocritical when it comes to their online ethics. Is this a surprise? Perhaps...
Testing Our Ethic
The following post was first printed as part of the Briggs-Chisnell project, a dialogue on issues of education and literacy. Let’s be in an uproar. Ethics have fallen in our society. Kids these days are apathetic and don’t care. No matter what we teach them, it is...
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“. . . by any other name” [II.ii.1-2]
On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. will be inaugurated. That’s Hussein. Tune in to any number of news channels and watch the pundits argue over the public use of his middle name. Somehow—despite its being tradition for the full name to be used—it has...
On Movie Sequels, Superman, and Michigan Ice
You don’t pump anti-lock brakes. I’m still not used to that. As my car skidded a bit across the December ice, I remembered to turn into the spin and bring it around straight again. Not so the driver behind me who began to fishtail before he remembered and...
Feedback Loop
Recently I mentioned in some of my classes that, psychologically, we are the stars of our own movies. By this I meant that we first of all see ourselves as the protagonists of a story, the main characters, the ones we imagine must win or succeed in the end. This is...
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