Spring into Speeches and Meet CCSS in Content Areas
Speeches meet CCSS By Spring of the school year, your students likely are comfortable enough with you and their classmates to give oral presentations with more confidence and competence than…
Code Switching and Blending
Which English? Switch or Blend? Students sometimes ask why English Language Arts teachers spend so much time on grammar. Here are a few prompts to lay the ground work for…
Website Evaluation – Not too soon
Evaluating Websites As the new school year begins, many teachers are designing assignments for which students conduct on-line research. Help students choose wisely by teaching them ways to evaluate the…
Arguments Based on Dystopian Literature
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.Generally considered to be the earliest of the modern Dystopian novels, it chronicles the rise…