I’ve been getting lots of traffic on my “Freebies” page from blog followers and visitors. It occurred to me, though, that maybe not everyone has looked beyond the homepage of Lessons From The Middle.  I just had a peek at the Middle School Freebies collection that I started a while back, and I noticed that [...]

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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: Lessons, Writing

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 work, and to encourage my students to write with more sentence variety. I am giving my students ...

Numberfix is a great site for teachers.  There are lesson ideas that are creative that incorporate writing and writing skills in to the math classroom.  On the resource page, you will find a growing collection of thoughtful and creative ways to have students ponder information and demonstrate new found knowledge. Teachers can insert these lessons ...

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 an essay, they will be required to map out their support (sometimes known as warrants) using ...

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 time is spent on the TV and on the internet. The average American is exposed to 560 ...

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