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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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If you are teaching and defining poetic justice, the O.J. Simpson trials could be an excellent example (depending on how you felt about the first trial). O.J. was convicted on all counts yesterday exactly 13 years to the day after he was found not guilty Read More...
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One site I enjoy using is Discovery’s Puzzlemaker site. You can create crossword puzzles, word searches, double puzzles, and more. My high school students love the puzzles I make for reviews and for introducing new vocabulary words. Sometimes I 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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One game I like to play with my students is TriBond . Sometimes when we have a few minutes to spare we play different thinking games, and this is one of my (and my students’) favorites. The idea is to figure out the common bond connecting three 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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I received a couple e-mails about how I start my classes each year. Last semester I started with the following activities , which I wrote about in January. It worked like a charm. On the first day we have lots of comings and goings because of schedule Read More...
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I use movie clips fairly often to draw students in to the literature we read in class. Here are two ways to use 1993’s Jurassic Park with a couple pieces of American literature. 1. When reading “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, I Read More...
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Last year I spoke with a teacher just before the start of the school year who said to me with a large, toothy smile, “I’m all done!” I replied, “all done with what?” He said, “Planning for the year.” He opened Read More...
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How much authority should school authorities have when students use the internet outside of the school setting? In my opinion, very little. I tend to agree with an editorial that schools should not be used as internet police. In my opinion, the only reason Read More...
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My students know I am a fan of word and phrase etymologies, so they routinely ask me from where words and phrases stem. One of my favorites is “happy as a clam” because it’s one that mystifies the students. From what I have been told 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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Joel, an excellent blogger, over at So You Want to Teach? posed some interesting questions regarding absences and make-up work for students, and I thought I’d post my ideas here.
1. How do you handle make-up work for students?
I have a couple systems Read More...
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