Drama is meant to be dramatic, students
Today I started our Macbeth unit in all three blocks of my practicum workload. I shared with them the assignments…
Social Justice in the Classroom: Finding Empathy in Poetry
(This is a picture of the work they did in class. I asked them to pull out quotes, phrases, words,…
Week 4: Choice for the Win!
This week started off rough with three students taking off before the bell ringing (forcing me to chase after and…
Why Mondays are Horrible
Okay so here we are week 4. It has been 1 week since I picked up my second class (Block…
Classroom Blog
I forgot to mention in my earlier posts that I have a class blog for my classes during my practicum….
Week 2: A Win!
Okay, so reflection time. Week two was way better than the first week, except the weather, which was terrible, so,…
Week one in Practicum: Iceberg ahead!
So it is the block before I teach my lesson and I’m sitting in the English office listening to the…
Out Out Brief Sentence: The One Sentence Project
Okay, so I realized, while lesson planning for my practicum, that, by the end of my Macbeth unit, I…
Teachers of the Caribbean: Curse of The Unengaged Student
I think a great metaphor for teaching is a ship; there is a captain and the crew but they need…
The Power of Poetry in Performance
I’ve been home for the past few days recovering from a wee bout of walking pneumonia that has left me…
Homer Meets High-Tech: Data Visualization and the Classics
My first reflection! So, in this Edutopia.org (great teacher site, you should check it out) blog-post, Humanities teacher, a Mr….
The Ever-Growing, Ongoing List O’ Resources: An Annotate Bibliography
Breau, H., Cathcart, R., & Dunn-Daye, J. (2009). Student Voices: How Can English Teachers Make Class More “Real” for Students? The…