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…
Assignments… ALS Web Quest 15 Sep 201517 Nov 2023 Sometimes to understand a concept fully, students need to research and learn about the concept outside of the classroom discussion. This I've learned with Tuesdays with Morrie and his condition ALS [Amyotrophic…
English 10… Journal 1 – Connecting Student Lives to Tuesdays with Morrie 11 Sep 201518 Oct 2015 Students connect with a text when they are able to relate the content to their personal lives and make deeper, more personal connections. Continue reading "Journal 1 – Connecting Student…
English 10… Connecting Lessons to Real-Life: ALS & The Ice-Bucket Challenge 9 Sep 201517 Nov 2023 As an intro activity to my English 10 class' first major reading, Tuesdays with Morrie, I wanted to talk about ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease) and the complications of that…
American Seminar 11… Intro to the Scarlet Letter 8 Sep 201518 Oct 2015 So how do you start teaching The Scarlet Letter? Where do you begin?Continue reading "Intro to the Scarlet Letter"