Assessments… Journal #2 – Being Your Age 21 Sep 201518 Oct 2015 September 21: By this time, my English 10 students are up to page 60 in Tuesdays with Morrie. Perfect time to assign another journal.Continue reading "Journal #2 – Being Your Age"
English 10… Connecting to Tuesdays with Morrie – Making Bucket Lists! 18 Sep 201519 Oct 2015 Today was a shortened day because of Homecoming. Classes were only twenty minutes, but I still wanted my students to do something pertaining to Tuesdays with Morrie, while being fun! So I…
Assessments… Tension of Opposites 17 Sep 201522 Oct 2015 One of the major themes early in Tuesdays with Morrie is tension, or 'Tension of Opposites,' as Morrie himself names it. Continue reading "Tension of Opposites"
English 10… Who Am I/My Culture Paper 16 Sep 201522 Oct 2015 For one of the first major writing assignments in my English 10 classroom, I decided to have the students write a paper about three items that define them, 'Who Am…
Assignments… Who Am I/My Culture Assignment 16 Sep 201522 Oct 2015 To dig a little deeper and connect my Tuesdays with Morrie unit to Narrative writing, which my students have and will be doing for the remainder of the year, I decided to…
Assessments… Tuesdays with Morrie – Quiz 1 15 Sep 201522 Oct 2015 After going through the book for several days as a class and having short Journal assignments and discussion, I decided to have a reading pop-quiz. This was over the first…