High School… Vocab Terms: Part I 6 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 Vocabulary in To Kill a Mockingbird is difficult! Even as a college grad, I found myself struggling not only to understand some words, but even how to pronounce them!Continue reading "Vocab Terms:…
Assignments… TKAM – Character Maps 5 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 To Kill a Mockingbird can be a challenging text, just due to the fact that there are so many characters! I wanted to help my students organize and keep the…
Honors 10… Peer Editing 2 Oct 20156 Oct 2015 Peer editing is a wonderful tool...if done effectively. When students read one another's work, they are able to see and fix errors in their peers' papers, as well as translate…
High School… Intro to To Kill a Mockingbird 1 Oct 201517 Oct 2015 I haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird in ages. But I knew I loved the book and I wanted my students to feel the same. To begin working with the…
High School… Old Man and the Sea Outline 24 Sep 201519 Oct 2015 My Honors kids have been struggling with thesis statements. They have great ideas, they just aren't articulating them into arguments. And thus their papers (and grades) are suffering. So I…
Assessments… Old Man and the Sea Thesis Statements 24 Sep 201518 Oct 2015 The next objective for my Honors 10 students was to write a thesis statement. In the class before, they had (on their own) brainstormed topics to write their research papers…
