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I gave my College in the High School students (an American Literature class) a project to go along with the conclusion of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. They had the options below, and every one was chosen by one of the groups of three. Each group had Read More...
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During the Holocaust unit with the Butterfly Project I discussed yesterday, I also do the following: show Schindler’s List after school, have the students compose a diction analysis with The Chosen , show (in a period) the Oprah episode with Eli Read More...
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For those of you who teach students about the Holocaust in the literature classroom (and even outside of the literary realm), my wife intriduced me to a wonderful project a few years ago. I usually start on a Wednesday, and the project requires two weeks Read More...
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One type of review activity I enjoy using in my classes is the fill-in. These simple retellings of stories, chapters, or passages help students identify important pieces of information as well as force the students to reread information in a second way. Read More...
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I may be unable to blog for a couple days, so here is a list of some of my more popular posts from my brief blogging history. I hope these links spark some conversation and, more importantly, some thought on a range of education topics. 1. Teaching Connotation Read More...
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This week my students are working on the diction analysis, which is an assignment requiring the students do the following: choose a section of text containing about 150 words, identify at least 6 literary devices, persuasive techniques, or logical fallacies, Read More...
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This week I’m going to introduce the term “impressionism” in my College in the High School class and will re-emphasize it later. I usually define the term in three different ways, show the students some art, and then use passages from Read More...
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A simple method I use when teaching novels requires only an index card. I write a list of 8-12 themes on the board and have the students copy down the list with one theme per line on the index card. Then I have the students watch for examples of the listed Read More...
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I had a great start to my week! I absolutely enjoy my classes, and my new collegaues seem to be adjusting and fitting in well. Here’s how my week went with some key lessons. College in the H.S. (American Lit.) I started the kids with a dozen literary Read More...
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Two of my favorite teachers, both journalism instructors, are admittedly not the typical readers. One reads only non-fiction books, newspaper and magazine articles, and online list serves while the other contends he’s “not the typical English Read More...
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One aspect of teaching, which can be quite difficult, is how to make what we teach relevant to students today. Kids seem to think they cannot possibly connect the writings of yesteryear with the hectic, technological, global lives led today; however, Read More...
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During my student teaching my mentor teacher asked a seemingly straight-forward and simple question: why did you give a test after reading that novel?
My response, an obviously silly and meaningless one (even after some thought), was “because it Read More...
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I’m going to advocate that every teacher create (or have someone else create) a website for every class, especially those of you teaching in middle and high schools. I have one, though I won’t link to it because I like my anonymity, but I Read More...
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I’m such a geek when it comes to teaching. Two weeks after the school year concludes, I’m ready to start again. Since I can’t have a classroom full of students to teach, I go back and revise and adapt my curriculum lessons during July Read More...
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Two novels I taught this year were To Kill A Mockingbird and A Gathering of Old Men. Prior to and during reading these novels, I had the kids look at some songs, poems, and historical context. Here are a few of my favorite things concerning the race relations Read More...
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