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Common Core Standard six of “Reading: Craft and Structure” provides an important opportunity to expose our students to different perspectives from cultures other than their own. This standard also gives us a great reason to explore some of the thousands Read More...
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This week is my last one before returning to the classroom on Monday. I have to be honest, thinking about the first day of school still makes me really queasy even after eleven years. Of course, I do plan to continue this series of posts about the Common Read More...
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This week we look at the last of three standards under “Key Ideas and Details” in the “Reading” section of the Common Core: Standard 3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a Read More...
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Continuing with our exploration of the Common Core, this week I’ve discovered a useful website for the second standard under “Key Ideas and Details.” Standard 2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the Read More...
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Summer has finally arrived here in Maine. I hope many of you, like me, have finished up the school year and can now take some time to recuperate. Looking forward to a productive summer, I am planning a series of blog posts focusing on the Common Core Read More...
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Have you ever realized on a Friday that the previous Monday was a special day like your favorite author’s birthday? Or, have you ever figured out on the first day of May that April was National Poetry Month? I have a difficult enough time keeping track Read More...
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Ok, so the days are finally getting longer here in New England and the end of the school year is within sight…but I still feel like there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done and the students are growing restless by the day. So, Read More...
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When I look to integrate technology into the classroom, I try to find resources that go beyond simple input/output applications. Too many “interactive” sites really just present basic information in a flashy way. Then there are those gems that not only Read More...
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Last week I wrote a post about using online comic creator applications to create comic strips based on scenes from Homer’s Odyssey. Today I’ve published a lesson plan based on this idea. This plan explores Epic / Homeric Similes, vivid word choices, and Read More...
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Gearing up for my Odyssey unit, I’ve been searching the Internet for a creative way to engage my students using technology while tackling a challenging read. While looking, I stumbled across Spore Comic Creator, a free online application that you can Read More...
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Jack London died of kidney disease when he was only 40, but during his short life he was an unusually prolific writer. When he died in 1916, he left behind everything from the adventure novels for which he is most known, to journalism, essays, and letters. Read More...
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Good afternoon. I hope my colleagues in the northeast are surviving the very long winter. I know I am more than ready for spring in Maine. This weeks’ post is for teachers looking for an opportunity to teach writing in a real-world context. One of the Read More...
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For teachers introducing Mark Twain to their students, the Mark Twain Interactive Scrapbook is a website with a useful variety of multimedia resources from video and audio to images of primary documents and quotes from the author. The site is produced Read More...
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As an English teacher, I am always using metaphors or other imagery to explain the concepts I want students to grasp. For example, when telling students about building a good paragraph or essay, it can be helpful to use the analogy of a good essay being Read More...
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When recently looking for electronic resources to add to my short story unit, I came across LearnOutLoud.com where hundreds of recorded works are available free for download. Learn Out Loud doesn’t just have audio recordings of books and stories (though Read More...
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