Creative Poetics
A while ago I posted about my summative assessment for the poetry unit I taught during my practicum. My students really…
The Macbeth One Sentence Project: the Results
For those of you who have been reading my blog, you may know that a while ago I talked about…
I Don’t Want to Go.
There is a moment in Doctor Who in which the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) knows that he has to regenerate…
Letting Go of Hands and Handing Students Forks Instead of Spoon Feeding
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I had found myself spoon feeding Shakespeare into the wily minds of…
So Naive…So Very Naive
Ok. I know it has been an incredibly long time since I last reflected and updated this blog but I…
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…