The Mama Levitt Show (with Everyone Else): Recent Episodes

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Mrs. Levitt, Mr. McGowan, Ms. Marra, and the Madeline English School 8th grade team talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of mental stimulation during "Corona-cation"

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TOPICS:

  • Reflections on a bizarre school year

  • Grade 8 poll results

  • Info for virtual moving on ceremony

  • Guess that student

  • Journal entry for Friday

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TOPICS:

  • Journal entry from Manny A

  • Will the riots and protests help spread coronavirus?

  • What will next school year look like?

  • Peanut allergies, your immune system, and vaccines.

  • Journal entry for Wednesday

  • Idiom for ELA Periods C and D

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TOPICS:

  • Assignments to wrap up the school year

  • If you had a day to live, what would you spend it doing?

  • Answers to student questions

  • Journal entry for Monday

  • Idiom for periods A and B

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TOPICS:

  • July birthday shoutouts 

-Protests in America

  • Constitutional rights

  • Friday's journal entry

  • Idiom for periods C and D

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TOPICS:

  • Work for this week (Due Friday 6/5)

  • Is change possible?

  • Journal entry for Wednesday

  • Idiom for periods A and B

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TOPICS:

  • Journal entry for Friday

  • What would we want to teach but we can't?

  • Common misconceptions about teachers

  • Idiom for Periods C and D

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TOPICS:

  • Assignments for this week

  • Is the universe trying to tell us something?

  • Can our cars get hacked?

  • Journal entries and idiom

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Topics:

  • What's your biggest regret?

  • More answers to student questions

-Traveling and murder hornets

-Journal entry for Friday

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TOPICS:

  • Comments on journal topics from Manny A, Joshua, Lornisha, Lily, Kaesta, Nicole, Wendiy, Anthony, and Manny N

  • Student questions from Andy and Gianna

  • Is there free will or is everything destined to happen?

  • Idiom for Periods C and D

  • Journal Entry for Wednesday

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TOPICS: Eating dinner next to mannequinsKowloon drive-in theaterStudent questionsWhat's not being taught in schools that should be?

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Free Form Friday

  • Wearing masks

  • Good things that have come out as a result of Coronavirus

  • Would you rather?

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  • Civics Discussion: What is the Electoral College? Should we keep it or get rid of it?

  • More answers to student questions

  • Would you rather?

  • Journal Entry for today

  • Music Trivia, Idiom, Dad joke

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HEADLINES:

Marra - Reporter caught wearing no pantsMarra - Tom Brady walks into wrong houseLevitt - 10 Classic Rock Albums that changed music

QUESTIONS:

If you could be the best at any sport or game, what would it be? What do you think of "chunking" the quarantine?

DISCUSSION:

Student questions

WRAP-UP

Sports movie trivia Dad joke

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APRIL 17, DAY 25 OF CORONA-CATION!

  • Happy Birthday to Ibrahim!

-What would be your Witness Protection name and job?

-Journal Entry: Where are we finding humor in our lives?

WISDOM OF THE DAY: Pablo Neruda, "Keeping Still"

Headlines: Judge Grants Restraining Order After KY Mayor Vowed To Record License Plates Of Easter Church Goers

Headlines: DoubleTree Hotels Released The Recipe For Its Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies And It Includes Lemon Juice

  • COVID-19 song parodies

  • Random Trivia game

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Questions

-Living in TV land.  Best/worst parts of being a kid.  And long-term projects.

Headlines:

- Mayor taking license plates of Easter church goers

-DoubleTree Chocolate Chip cookie recipe

Special Guest:

-Former Maddy teacher and current Keverian teacher Mr. Mallio

Trivia:

  • Music sound clips

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Random Question of the Day: What is the youngest age person that could beat you up? Journal Prompt: Lower expectations and practice radical self-acceptance. Discussion:  New curfew rules/restrictions in Everett Headlines: Marra - How are people starting to go back to work in Italy?Levitt--Pandas use Lockdown Privacy to Mate After a Decade of Trying McG: Thinking through who gets ventilators - For Friday discussion Special Guest: 4th grade teacher Ms. Colameta Trivia: Movies Wrap-up: Dad joke

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HOUSEKEEPING: Everett Public Schools suspends in-person service delivery for two weeksStudent schedules and online work updateJournal Entry today: Finding your own "retreat space" MOVIE MONDAY: "V for Vendetta" - Themes: Revenge, Freedom, Racism/Sexism, Government, Power, Fear, Violence  SPECIAL GUEST - Everett City Councilor Stephanie Martins Councilor Martins talks about what a councilor does, what the city is doing to help during COVID-19, and what young people can do to help

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DEBATE DAY!

  • Should schools give A's to every student this year? What would be the pros and cons?

  • Should online work and "distance learning" be mandatory?

  • What sort of expectations should schools have for students during distance learning?

Discussion about the article "Give Them All A's" by Dr. Manuel Rustin

https://medium.com/@manuelrustin/give-them-all-as-7ea4d0cc52ba

  • Steph Curry talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Instagram: Steph Curry talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Trivia Quiz today is SPORTS

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Housekeeping: Weekend storiesFree chromebook distributions at Encore parking lotTiger King Headlines:

Levitt: Doctor narrowly escapes tornado

Zimbabwe - Corona or starvarion

Marra::  Gamestop employees still working McG: Walsh: Stricter rules for park usage Special Guest: Mr. Sutera

Movie Monday discussion - "GROUNDHOG DAY"

Movie Trivia

Idiom of the Day: "True Blue"

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On today's show:

  • i-Ready shout-outs

  • Special guest: Mr. Jaffe

  • Question of the day: If you could travel to any time in history, what would it be?

  • Headlines: 

Financial irresponsibility? (Levitt)

Woman can smell diseases (Marra)

  • Music trivia

  • Idiom of the day: "keep a stiff upper lip"

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-Corona-cation Journals - does today feel like a Monday?

  • Microstory winners and Manny G's microstory

  • Math question - If your allowance was one penny a day and then it doubled every day, how many days would it take you to have $1,000?

  • Question of the day: Would you be willing to lose a limb to end the Corona pandemic>

  • Callers: Diego, Ana

  • Movie Monday discussion - What did we get from watching "WALL-E"?

  • Special guest: Ms. Nadeau with a math joke

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Today's topics:

-Corona-cation Journal tips

  • Question of the Day: What are you grateful for today?

-Movie Monday - watch "WALL-E" this weekend and we can talk about it on Monday

  • Headlines: Christmas lights going up, Spanish letter-writing campaign, Coronavirus vaccines

  • Callers: Adam, Manny G, Giovanni, Yuri, Emma

  • Birthdays/Guess the Year: Mrs. Levitt vs. Ms. Marra

-Idiom of the Day: "mind your p's and q's"

-Suggestions for the weekend

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Today's topics:

  • How much power does the President have during a time of crisis?

  • Why is it important not to believe everything you read on the Internet?

  • Corona-cation Journals

  • Constitutional Convention movie reviews

  • Special guest: Ms. DeFilippo

  • Callers: Khang, Andres, Tyana, Diana, Gio, Sophia I, and Yasseen

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Meet Mrs. "Mama" Levitt, an eighth grade Civics teacher at the Madeline English School in Everett, Massachusetts.

Mama Levitt is everyone's mom (both for the students and her fellow teachers): hard working and caring with high expectations and zero tolerance for foolishness.  She is also, as the students call her, a true "baddie."

As of March 13, 2020, Everett's public schools are closed due to concerns around the spread of COVID-19 virus.  As such, Mama Levitt, along with her team of characters (ranging from quirky English teacher and show host Mr. McGowan, the philosophical small group teacher (and original co-host) Ms. Marra, aggressive math teacher Ms. Nadeau, mad scientist Mr. Jaffe, tell-it-like-it-is inclusion teacher Mr. Crowley, and ultra-patient special ed teacher (and former WNBA player) Ms. Cassidy), navigate the twists of turns of "Corona-cation," discussing 8th grade curriculum but more importantly, the twists and turns of life as a teenager in America in 2020.

Mama Levitt's signature phrase: "PERIOD!"