High School… Saying Goodbye to My Honors Classes 19 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 Friday was my last day at Mason City High School, bittersweet to say the least. Saying goodbye to my Honors 10 group was tough. I had become particularly fond of…
Classroom Prep/Set-Up… Unit Planning – Honors 10 16 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 I was extremely nervous about teaching tenth grade Honors English at first, but once I started planning out what I was going to do, I felt a lot better.Continue reading…
High School… Journal – Community and Justice System 15 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 My sophomore Honors English students had just finished reading Part I of To Kill a Mockingbird, and as a transition activity, I had them journal for the first 10-15 minutes of class…
Honors 10… My Kids Say the Darndest Things, Part 3 14 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 Being a teacher means there's no shortage of laughs. This is the latest, written in a formal essay about Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. Sometimes you just have to laugh.Continue reading…
Assessments… Quiz – Ch. 9 & 10 14 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 Time for another pop quiz! This time it's over chapters 9 & 10 in TKAM.Continue reading "Quiz – Ch. 9 & 10"
High School… Relationships in TKAM 14 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 "Who the heck is related to who?" This is what one of my students said to me as we reached one of the final chapters of Part II and were…
