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Teaching How Diction Reveals Tone
Teaching students to dig deep into a text can be challenging, especially when today’s students aren’t regular readers. Since school started four weeks ago, I’ve been trying to inspir… more →
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Selling Their Wares
pjhiggins wrote 3 weeks ago: Last Sunday featured an interesting article in the New York Times by Winnie Hu, “Selling Lesso … more →
Teaching How Diction Reveals Tone
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justread wrote 3 months ago: Teaching students to dig deep into a text can be challenging, especially when today’s students … more →
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Maggie wrote 9 months ago: The eyeballing game: see how good you are at creating geometrical shapes This applet let’s you … more →
Head2Head: Teaching Students to Argue the Right Way
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justread wrote 10 months ago: Generally, students are trotting off to college, unprepared to meet academic demands. Professors … more →
Teaching Narrative Writing: A Place Narrative Unit
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justread wrote 1 year ago: My English 11 students are currently writing a place narrative modeled after a narrative in Penny Ki … more →
Questioning a Text: Deepening Discussions and Understandings
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justread wrote 1 year ago: This summer I promised participants in my literature circle workshops that I would update my literat … more →
Whiteboard Wonders: Visualizing Vocabulary
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justread wrote 1 year ago: I love my whiteboards. In the first post in this series, I shared the details of arming every studen … more →
Low-Tech Solution Reaps High-End Results
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justread wrote 1 year ago: I’d love for every student in my classroom to have a laptop. They don’t. In the absence … more →
Cross-Curricular Project: National History Day
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justread wrote 1 year ago: Last year, Mrs. Gillmore suggested we (as two of the English 11 teachers at BHS) work with the histo … more →
Twilight Series: For Pleasure & For Pedagogy
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justread wrote 1 year ago: I’ve gone on a fiction reading binge while lounging on the beach this past week. There’s … more →
Poetry WebQuest
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justread wrote 1 year ago: The end is near. As the school year grinds (that’s how it’s feeling as I’m majorly … more →
Teaching Tone: Second in the Poetry Series
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justread wrote 1 year ago: I confess: I simply haven’t had time to catalogue all the lessons in the poetry unit, so this is not … more →
Reading and Writing Poetry
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justread wrote 1 year ago: These last few weeks of school, we’re tackling an intense poetry unit in my English 11 class. I’ve d … more →
Individualized Content -- Business History
mm wrote 1 year ago: Lesson plans could be made out of business histories, out of reading certain books, etc. This is jus … more →
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pocketcindy wrote 2 years ago: Mad-Libbing Your Way Into Modern Poetry Lesson plan. Students analyze modern poetry and create poem … more →
