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Advertisement Analysis Assignment

October 28, 2018April 29, 2020 by admin

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Persuasion - Advertisements One way to introduce students to the power of persuasion and to show them evidence of logical fallacies is to have them analyze advertisements in print and digital media. You can have students write and post their analysis or present their findings in a speech using visual…

Patterns for Thoughtful Conversations

September 15, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Sentence Stems Stimulate Thinking, Talking and Writing Now is a good time to begin modeling ways to increase the classroom participation among your students. These sentence starters prepare them to have more thoughtful conversations and to write more insightful compositions using the language we expect to see in their writing. …

Language Arts Resources

September 7, 2018April 28, 2020 by admin

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General Overview of ELA Resources Welcome to my website. Click on any of the lines to sample explanations, assignments, and other resources to enhance teaching and improve learning. GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES General Grading Guidelines for Written Assignments General Grading Guidelines - SLIDES BOOK REPORTS Collage on Common Book or Story…

Prep for Semester Exam

March 12, 2018March 12, 2019 by admin

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Prepare Now to Assess Begin now and ensure that your students will be ready to do well on the semester exams. First, write in your own words specifically what plan to measure. Consider these ideas. (1) How well students recall what you’ve taught about ______________. (2) How well…

What’s New About Sexual Harassment?

March 4, 2018April 29, 2020 by admin

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The Handmaid’s Tale- Characters and Current Events Literature and Life The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a particularly effective text in a unit on WOMEN'S HISTORY, DYSTOPIA or one linked to CURRENT EVENTS. I've found the unit to be more engaging when I asked to the students to look…

Write Right Away

September 2, 2017September 2, 2017 by admin

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Get' em Writing about Themselves Looking for ways to get to know your students while having them do authentic writing that builds on works you've read? Here are three ideas to consider that can serve as a beginning of the year formative assessments of reading and writing. No need to…

REFRESHING IDEAS FOR READING AND WRITING

August 31, 2017August 24, 2017 by admin

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READING AND WRITING POSTERS Periodically, I find interesting graphics that can be posted in classroom or projected during reading or writing assignments, just to remind students of what they've been taught and now are being asked to use as they read or write. USEFUL in opening weeks of school or…

GRAMPOPPA – Poem with Pictures Project

June 24, 2017September 2, 2017 by admin

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Grandparents hold a special place in many families and we all have our favorite stories about them. This book, in free verse, shares some of those stories. Vibrant drawings help bring alive the relationship between family members and then, the book ends the invitation to write a poem about a…

Digital Storytelling

August 18, 2016August 19, 2016 by admin

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Cross-Curricular Writing Teachers in elective courses sometimes struggle to design lessons that teach the content and skills of their courses when students are challenged by the demands of the required courses. Consider drawing on content matter from other courses as you teach the information and skills related to your course. Here's…

Career Planning

January 1, 2016December 24, 2015 by admin

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Quit Now or Stay in School? Spring term is good time to offer students the opportunity to consider why continuing their education will expand their future choices. Here's a sample Career Research Project I've used with Sophomores. Here's link to an assignment that requires similar thinking and is adaptable for eighth graders. The…

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