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A while back I wanted my students to write more, but I knew I didn’t have the time to assess more. So, like Miniver Cheevy , I “thought, and thought, and thought/ and thought about it…scratched [my] head and kept on thinking…/coughed, and called it fate,/ Read More...
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Over at the Seattle Times a blog post from Ed Cetera has sparked some conversation around the water cooler in our English Department. In the posting Ed Cetera wonders why people love J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, and then he mentions his love for Read More...
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I just finished planning for January, and I’m going to be teaching the following this month. American Literature : First, we’ll review the Edgar Allan Poe writings (“The Raven” and “Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell Tale Heart”) as well as Nathaniel Read More...
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When in class one of my favorite weapons in my arsenal against inattentiveness is humor, so I promised my students that with each “-ism” I show them in class that I would provide a joke with each. Today I presented to them artistic and literary examples Read More...
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Last week I tried something called The Wagon Wheel. I numbered off my students 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, etc. and then had the ones form a circle shoulder to shoulder facing outward while the twos faced the inner circle. If an odd number of students are in class, Read More...
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Today was the first day of school, and we had a distinctly shorter day than we normally do because of a new effort. The school was for Freshmen only in the morning to attend 20 minute classes, and the second half of the day was for upperclassmen to attend Read More...
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At the Seattle Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) conference, Richard DuFour explained the basics of what a PLC is and the principle responsibilities of a PLC’s members. First, one must distinguish between a group and a team. DuFour used the metaphor Read More...
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I haven’t talked about my own school lately, so I thought an update was in order. To be blunt, we’re losing programs–not because of budget cuts or lower enrollment, but because my principal has fallen in love with blocks. Apparently, she believes the Read More...
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Each year I try to include a new hook to get my students more interested in my English classes. Usually I can keep the energy level up enough, but another “in” is always welcome. This year I started using music videos (purchased online), and this year Read More...
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We finished The Grapes of Wrath and are starting A Gathering of Old Men , but I was gone for a few days. Now, I had intended to do this earlier, but I had time today and we had “music day.” We listened to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and look Read More...
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Is teaching reading, and more particularly literature, a losing prospect? There are days when I feel this way. Yesterday I took an anonymous poll and found that 1/3 of my College in the High School students were behind in the current reading and 1/4 admitted Read More...
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Thank you to those of you who gave me some ideas for teaching To Kill A Mockingbird . Even though I have not settled on what I will do this time, I do appreciate the suggestions. I’m thinking about some type of cross-discipline project which includes Read More...
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Does anyone have any novel (pun intended) ideas about teaching To Kill A Mockingbird ? I do some fun stuff and enjoy the book, but I’d love to learn some new ideas. Toss ‘em my way. Maybe I can toss a couple back your way. Posted in American Lit., Honors, Read More...
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This week my students related to me how an assignment I designed to take 15 minutes took as long as 45-60 minutes. After some questions from me and responses from them, I discovered that most of my students (probably 75% of them) text, instant message, Read More...
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After such a long week this past week, I’m psyched for our four-day week ahead. First, I get to start teaching my favorite Shakespearean play: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar . We have already learned some background information through a video and a history Read More...
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