Warszawa Centralna

Warszawa Centralna

Completed in seventies, the Warsaw Central train station is a monument to Socialist Realism in architecture and one of the largest — if memory serves, the largest — train station in Central Europe. Polish authorities are considering tearing it down, which...
Sunset Through the Branches

Sunset Through the Branches

When one lives in rural Poland, with rolling farmland all around, it’s difficult to resist the temptation every single evening to go for a walk.
Web Resource Evaluation and

Web Resource Evaluation and

First and fifth periods covered the evaluation of web resources. We also did the associated practice and began evaluating resources using the same graphic organizer we’ll be using on Monday. Second and fourth periods worked on their Odyssey projects. We’ll...
Planning and Visualizing

Planning and Visualizing

Students in first and fifth periods did a close reading of a text describing Anne Frank’s hiding place and worked in partners to sketch a floor plan from the text. We began with the main office building, working as a class to figure out just how to examine the...
Medias Res and Effective Reading

Medias Res and Effective Reading

First and fifth periods, after working on their unit diaries, worked on effective reader skills by doing a group Think Aloud, which in reality was more of variant of Say Something. Still, it provided students with a chance to improve the frequency and quality of their...