Using Your SpaceIf you are lucky enough to have bulletin board space, make sure you are using it! There are so many teachers I know that wish they had more. In this post, I'm going to show you different ways to use your boards, but also give you some hacks to create boards where… Continue reading Bulletin Board Bonanza- The Many Ways to Use Your Space
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Is Anyone Reading This? My Blogging Frustrations
If you are reading this, then it's a damn miracle because there are billions of people in the world, and about 2.5 of them actually read my blog (that's actually 2 1/2 people, not like 2.5 million or anything). I mean, hey, I think I'm pretty funny, and I have a lot to offer other… Continue reading Is Anyone Reading This? My Blogging Frustrations
Seeing Red: Teaching Symbolism by Close Reading Text and Film
Last week I got to do one of my very favorite lessons of all time. Don't you love those days? You can go to school knowing that you're going to get to teach something way cool that you feel good about all day long. In my case, I got to teach it for two days… Continue reading Seeing Red: Teaching Symbolism by Close Reading Text and Film
Hero’s Journey and Annotation
A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), I started teaching hero's journey when a colleague and I began teaching Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman. If you haven't read that book, or any of his work, PLEASE DO. He is one of the best YA authors out there, in my humble opinion.… Continue reading Hero’s Journey and Annotation
Annotation: Marking a Text with Purpose
For a very long time I struggled with how best to teach students to annotate. I had heard all the advice like, "Tell them they're having a conversation with the text". Or "Have them use symbols to show what they were thinking". Seems simple enough, right? Well, those did NOT work for me or my… Continue reading Annotation: Marking a Text with Purpose