| I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.3, and I am maily posting to check it out. I had to disable the feature that used to appear in my sidebar called “Most Popular Posts.” It was... | |
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| Some of my students made the news today: “Teens take over parking area to make a point” from the AJC.
Two of the students mentioned in the article, Julian and Jonathan, were in my class... | |
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| My students began presenting their utopian (or dystopian?) projects (based on this UbD unit for Brave New World).
First of all, I think it was a fun project. The students worked hard on it, for the... | |
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| ADD permeates my life. My husband and daughter are both ADD, and I frequently teach students who also have ADD. I think I have a higher tolerance for ADD behavior than many people do; I have... | |
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| Last week, my ninth graders started working on a project associated with their summer reading novel A Lesson Before Dying. One group in particular was really doing a good job, going beyond the links... | |
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| Karl Fisch wrote a post Tuesday — “Is It Okay to Be a Technologically Illiterate Teacher?” — that really, really resonated with me. He was spurred to write it after reading... | |
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| I really need to go through my files and see what I can upload to the handouts page. I know I’ve come up with some things I haven’t added.
I have now gone to Curriculum Nights for three... | |
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| As I have been working to create UbD plans over the last couple of days, a couple of things have become glaringly obvious to me.
The first is that the quality of available study guides and... | |
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| After a marathon planning session I don’t think I ever would have started had I realized how long it would take, I have finally finished (I think) my UbD unit for Macbeth. Take a look at it... | |
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| Look out! I’m on the warpath… | |
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