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Tuesdays with Morrie

Complete 6-Week Unit for Tuesdays with Morrie

December 3, 2015December 4, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Tuesdays with Morrie is an amazing novel. It deals with death, love, hardship, family, friendship, faith, and positivity, and is an amazing book for high schoolers to read. In my student teaching experience, I created a full six-week unit for the novel, complete with standards-aligned assignments, assessments, projects, papers, and activities. This is it! Continue reading →

Compare & Contrast – Tuesdays with Morrie Movie

October 15, 2015October 19, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

My kids finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie! Yay! To complete the unit, I wanted the students to watch the movie and to compare the book and the movie–understanding literature through multiple lenses. Continue reading →

Who Is Morrie Now?

October 15, 2015October 19, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

As a closing and wrap-up activity for Tuesdays with Morrie, I asked my students to take out their drawings from the beginning of the semester, there initial pictures of who Morrie was. Continue reading →

Life Lessons From Morrie – Final Paper

October 13, 2015October 18, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Tuesdays with Morrie is a wonderful book; probably one of my favorites. I love that it’s so personal, so confessional, so motivational, and most importantly, so relatable. Continue reading →

Peer Reading

October 12, 2015October 19, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Okay, I thought. We’ll see how this goes. I stood at the front of the class. “Today we’re going to finish the book. I’d like you to find a partner of your choice and read this final section, ‘Afterward’ aloud.” Continue reading →

“Graduation” and “Conclusion” Scaffolded Notes

October 9, 2015October 19, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

After reading aloud and realizing that my students were struggling with comprehension, I decided to create a set of scaffolded notes for them to take home over the weekend and complete while reading. Continue reading →

Journal 4 – The “Nightline” Show

October 8, 2015October 22, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

As I begin to wrap up Tuesdays with Morrie in my English 10 classes, I wanted to give students the opportunity to form an opinion. Some of my students love the book. Some don’t. I wanted to get them working on opinion-based narrative writing, dip into persuasive writing, and most importantly, make arguments and back them up with support! Continue reading →

12th Tuesday Comprehension Questions

October 7, 2015October 18, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Something I started doing with my sophomore English students was read aloud from Tuesdays with Morrie. This began as an idea to help my ESL student and other struggling readers, but then it became a necessary tool to keep all students on track with their reading.
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Reincarnation Activity

October 5, 2015October 22, 2015 | Marisa Donnelly

Today my students are taking their 5th-9th Tuesday Quiz, but after that, I wanted them to have a little fun. Continue reading →

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