Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

Birmingham, Sharing, and 1.1

First period  continued with the writing focus experiment. We added sharing into our daily writing workshop focus. It was the first peer conferencing session, so it was far from perfect, but we did well: Students got feedback and had an opportunity to perform a...
First Day Back

First Day Back

Welcome back! I’m thrilled to get back to work, and I know everyone else is, too. (And I am not being sarcastic: I wouldn’t joke about my commitment to education.) First period began a several-week experimental writing workshop model. We went over how...
Defining and Planning

Defining and Planning

Image via Wikipedia First and fourth period were both engaged in inductive reasoning to come up definitions. First period has been defining propaganda. After looking at specific examples of Nazi propaganda yesterday, we came up with a class list of characteristics of...