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Attention Teachers: Collaboration Needed
Starting next week, my AP English Language students are tackling a cooperative lesson (one I adapted from a lesson by Deborah Louis, an AP English consultant) on The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I will create six groups and assign each group a paragraph of chapter six. I’m tackling the first paragraph, creating a model. Each […]
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 […]
Struggling to Synthesize: What Do I Do in My Classroom?
July 1, 2008
I can feel myself growing dendrites, and it hurts. I’m seeing connections among several concepts: abandoning template-driven bulleted slideshows, harnessing the power of visuals, teaching kids to craft narrative, integrating digital storytelling. It’s still fuzzy: I can’t quite put it all together yet, but I’m starting to see a new curriculum for my class-one that […]
Come Read with Us!
May 1, 2008
Dana Huff has invited educators to join her in reading Write Beside Them. In the spirit of forging a collaboration, I’ve created a wiki to unite all of us who want to join Dana in reading and discussing the book. Harvey Daniels, one of my heroes in the world of literature circles, has given the book […]
Teaching Tone: Second in the Poetry Series
April 15, 2008
I confess: I simply haven’t had time to catalogue all the lessons in the poetry unit, so this is not actually the second lesson. It just happens to be today’s lesson. I’ll get back to the others—when I can find time to do them justice. Created by my student intern, Ashley Dorsey, this lesson’s goal […]
JustRead! 
October 29, 2008
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