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I’m looking for different timed write formats to teach to my students. I’m curious what people are doing. What formats or structures do you have your students use when composing a timed write, especially AP prompts? I thank you in advance. Filed under: Read More...
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Well, I’m neck-deep in paperwork, meetings, and planning, but everything is working out well. Still, I want to accomplish three goals this week: to have the students write in a different (and more fun) mode, to force the students to review a literary Read More...
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Based on an older post about how I teach Antigone , I get requests almost daily for my study guides on Antigone . Here they are: Prologue Questions Scene 1 Questions Scene 2 Questions Filed under: Lessons Read More...
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I spent the last week teaching my students how to score AP essays, and they did a fantastic job! We looked at the AP writing rubric and a retired prompt on Monday, and then scored a single paper based on that prompt each day this week. As we moved through Read More...
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I was updating my resume and my accomplishments list for my evaluator (which is a way I keep my evaluator updated on my workload), and I realized that I have 13 extra assignments besides teaching. Wow! I didn’t realize how many things I do, but I knew Read More...
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A recent article in The Seattle Times is entitled “What’s the Matter With Teachers Today?” The title is an obvious ploy to gain readership and increase online comments; however, it’s not an accurate title at all. The article itself contains a brief history Read More...
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One article in the L.A. Times compares the “blame the teacher” movement currently popular in the U.S. with the “blame the worker” movement that failed in the 70s and 80s. A great section has this: Recall the reaction of domestic manufacturers in the 1970s Read More...
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I may have created a monster…well, maybe 95 of them. I gave my students the assignment of choosing a school issue and then use the rhetorical triangle to organize their ideas. They loved it! Now they want to flood the administration with their proposals, Read More...
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Well, a school district has decided to strike . Sigh. Right or wrong, legitimate concerns or not, I don’t foresee a groundswell of public sympathy. It could be ugly. Filed under: Administration , Union Read More...
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I don’t have the words to express what I felt on 9/11, so I decided to post a comic from one of my favorite strips. Remember those we lost and cherish those we still have. Filed under: History Read More...
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I walked into the copy room today, and my new principal smiled and said, “How did the day go?” My reply: “No one cried today.” (Actually, it was a great day. No one came close to tears.) ———————————————– A while back I spoke with the Learning and teaching Read More...
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I had a fantastic first day of school today! Everything went perfectly, and here’s the activity I used (again) this year: On the first day we have lots of comings and goings because of schedule changes, so I start with an easy activity and a game. I have Read More...
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This year I’m going to start my College in the High School class (American Literature) with the rhetorical triangle . We will focus on creating solid arguments which use all three appeals: emotional, logical, and ethical. Each time the students construct Read More...
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I posted the following on a message board. What do you think? I don’t understand why people think WA schools are failing. ACT and SAT scores are up (and above the national average) even with ever more students tested each year. We still have kids entering Read More...
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Washington State’s ACT scores bested the national average again. This is all the more impressive considering that more students took the test than in previous years. Of course, it was buried in the back of the newspaper. Filed under: Good Mood , Testin Read More...
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