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I hear it often, and you do too. Winter Break (Christmas Break) approaches, and community members begin to envy the two weeks away from school that teachers have and the comments begin. “It must be nice to have two weeks off.” “What will you do with all Read More...
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As a high school teacher who regularly teaches juniors and honors classes, I am frequently asked to write letters of recommendation for students. Eight weeks into school, and I have written 17 letters so far. Each one takes about thirty minutes to compose, Read More...
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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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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 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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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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We and our students are immersed in media today. Look at the numbers: 80% of children under six watch at least two hours of TV or other screen media a day. The average American is inundated with 11.8 hours of information a day. 57% of an American’s information Read More...
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Last semester my juniors composed a thesis paper, and it was a rousing success. I had a series of three editing days where students worked in groups editing papers using a process I created, and then the students completed an editing session with me leading Read More...
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I’ve been on vacation and upon returning I had a full inbox of questions about how to integrate multiple language arts elements into a single assignment. I thought I would use an example from my own curriculum to illustrate the idea of integration. One Read More...
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I just thought I’d throw out into cyberspace what I like to do when teaching Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 . First, we read Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” and talk about Bradbury’s views. I begin the next few days by sharing a number of statistics about Read More...
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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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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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Previously, I posted about a diction analysis assignment I use in class . While I designed it originally for my honors students, I have modified it to use with my mainstream students as well. I thought I would present an example of this here. The first Read More...
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Here is a website with some real world instances of plagiarism and the consequences which followed. Maybe these could help when teaching kids about plagiarism. Posted in Lessons, Writing Read More...
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