You Don’t Like My Flowers?

By G. P. Avants This short story is a scene from Chronolocity: A Fistful of Chronotons. To subtly correct the future timeline, Mr. Cross creates training for key historical figures in their impressionable childhood state. The reality and the practical application of time-travel is discussed in detail after he explains his dream for painting a better…

Tasty, but Deadly By G. P. Avants The idea of changing history, especially events that you feel brought you sadness or suffering, is appealing to some people. What would it mean if you could take the other fork in the road? You know going back and fixing something from your past in order to see…

Levy Meets Elise

By G.P. Avants One of the great things about going digital this year at school is finding all sorts of tools to use. My principal passed this program called Pixton on to me. It allows you to create comics and engage your students into storytelling. I thought why not create a scene from Chronolocity: A…

Meet Levy Roarke

By G.P. Avants I wanted to share with you a fun project that I used in my classroom to get my high school students writing while trying to use something they seem all love, music. If was a fun idea that my daughter found on Spotify. Someone had created a playlist for Star Wars character,…

Levy’s Soundtrack of Life

By G.P. Avants Last week I promised that I would share the actual digital technology lesson that I created with my high school students. If you missed the last post that one talked about how to use music and technology to get students to have more buy in with their reading, writing, research, and presentation…

The Expanding James Holden

By G. P. Avants Great characters are timeless. A hero is a hero no matter what time period they are born into. James Holden is just an ordinary man who had greatness thrust upon him. In the coldness of space he and his crew hold the key to a new life for humanity. In the…

The Journey of Asoka Tano

By G. P. Avants Walking the narrow road is a hazardous journey. It requires a balance of one’s resolve and oftentimes brings you to many relective moments along the way. Just as Asoka Tano. She became the unexpected padwan of Anakin Skywalker. Asoka fought along side he, Obi-wan Kenobi, and many illustrious Jedi, while facing…

Dorkus Maximus

By G. P. Avants You gotta love someone with a great sense of humor. They are the sort of person who can find the punch line in any situation or can create one with ease. Maybe a person who can be the butt of a joke and take it with stride might be the rarest…