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Teaching How Diction Reveals Tone
Teaching students to dig deep into a text can be challenging, especially when today’s students aren’t regular readers. Since school started four weeks ago, I’ve been trying to inspire mine to establish a daily habit of reading and to read deeply. Today, we tackled diction and tone. I began the lesson by having three students […]
Classroom Redesign: It’s Finally Happening at My School!
June 9, 2009
I was perusing my blog this morning, reading through past posts, and I came across this one I wrote in January of this year. I had been silent on my blog for some time prior to that post, silent because I was teaching English full-time and trying to rally my district to embrace a major […]
The Awakening Project: Bring on the Comments!
December 3, 2008
As with all projects, we hit a few hurdles–absent team members, problems uploading videos, problems getting our crappy mics to record quality narration–but my students have finished their productions of their analyses of chapter six of The Awakening. They’re eager for the world to view their presentations and enter the discussion. If you have time, please […]
Whoa, Wiki: Collaborative Text Analysis
October 12, 2008
This week, in my AP English Language class I dabbled in a bit of 21st century learning. Having assigned a text to read as homework, I had students discuss it-not face-to-face as we normally do in class-but online using a wiki. Working in teams, they collaboratively analyzed the texts, arriving at a deeper understanding of […]
Instructional Technologists Matter
August 31, 2008
Kim Cofino captures beautifully the potential of an instructional technologist or technology coach to make a difference.
Newly Launched Ning to Unite HS English Teachers
July 24, 2008
Nings allow us to form our own social network, a place where like-minded individuals can connect to share, discuss, debate, collaborate, create. It is my hope that Literacy Lighthouse , a ning I just launched, will connect high school English teachers around the globe. The 21st Century demands our students be able to read and […]
Cross-Curricular Project: National History Day
July 24, 2008
Last year, Mrs. Gillmore suggested we (as two of the English 11 teachers at BHS) work with the history department to have students create projects for National History Day. Since then, we’ve tossed around ideas and all agree a cross-curricular collaboration would be beneficial to our students. How can we bring all the history and […]
JustRead! 
September 16, 2009
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