6th Grade Reading… Help Me With Halloween! 30 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 To keep with the Halloween spirit, I created an extension activity that incorporated the holiday and student writing--Help Me With Halloween!Continue reading "Help Me With Halloween!"
English 10… Poetry Workshop 2 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 To connect on a deeper, more personal level to Tuesdays with Morrie, I had my students write poems about their 'Morries', the influential people in their lives.Continue reading "Poetry Workshop"
5th Grade… Speed Read Relay! 9 Apr 201516 Sep 2015 This week’s meeting with our ten-year-old boy was a little different due to the Easter holiday and having Monday off. For today’s lesson, my plan was to start with a…
5th Grade… Emotions/States of Being 18 Mar 201516 Sep 2015 The focus of today’s session was on emotions/feelings/states of being. My group and I gathered about 6-8 books at a fourth grade reading level that incorporated these: ‘Being Responsible,’ ‘Being…
Writing Strategies Four Corners & Personality Collage Doll 25 Feb 201525 Feb 2015 The ‘Four Corners and Personality Collage Doll’ activity is basically a strategy for getting students to both define themselves and write about themselves—thus everyone (including the teacher) gets to know…
High School… Tuesdays with Morrie – Letter to Author, Mitch Albom 19 Feb 201526 Oct 2015 As my unit on Tuesdays with Morrie continued, I moved into a series of lessons I called 'What's the Point?' which focused on the 'why' behind reading this book. I think it's…
