8th Grade Reading… What the Heck is a Vignette? 4 Nov 20151 Dec 2015 To introduce my students to House on Mango Street, I knew I had to teach them about the book's format: vignettes.Continue reading "What the Heck is a Vignette?"
6th Grade Reading… The Boring Words Funeral 27 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Today my 6th grade co-teachers and I held a Boring Words Funeral for the overused, boring, '2nd/3rd grade' words in our vocabulary. This was a very somber event. Students and…
8th Grade Reading… Assessing Character Symbols 27 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Okay, Marisa. You can do this. I coach myself as I begin my first Standards-Based Grading. Just be honest. Be consistent. And be smart. Continue reading "Assessing Character Symbols"
6th Grade Reading… My Hamburger Narrative 26 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 The focus of my sixth grade classes is narrative writing: short stories about the student's own lives. To help with the structure of writing a short story, we explained a…
8th Grade Reading… Hunger Games – Scaffolded Notes 20 Oct 201527 Oct 2015 I stepped into this placement at Forest City Middle School while my eighth grade students were in the middle/end of reading Hunger Games. This was a difficult spot to enter,…
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…
