“A hard beginning maketh a good beginning.” -John Heywood, Proverbs “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” -John Heywood “A supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” -Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “The meeting ofContinue reading “Introducing a text with Quotes teaching Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice””
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Friday Quotes-Introducing quotes with even more Robert Frost
“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.” So prevalent to society but great to use in a Dystopian novel like “Legend” by Marie Lu or “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. As well, great with classics like “Anthem” and “Harrison Bergeron”. “Proclaimed the time was neither wrongContinue reading “Friday Quotes-Introducing quotes with even more Robert Frost”
Wednesday Tech Tip-Introduce a Text with the day before’s exit ticket data
Introduce a text or objective with the data of how the students did on the exit ticket question from the day before using Google Forms. For example, you are teaching how to name the theme and what evidence from a text proves that theme. So, the day before you asked the class two questions onContinue reading “Wednesday Tech Tip-Introduce a Text with the day before’s exit ticket data”
Wednesday Tech Tip-online sticky notes are great for teaching how to take notes
Whether using Google Keep notes or an online tool like Padlet, be sure to utilize any tool that allows feedback for the students as well as provides a way for them to study materials. So many tools are out there for DOK 1 recall studying, but by adding “sticky note” DOK 2 and 3 (whatContinue reading “Wednesday Tech Tip-online sticky notes are great for teaching how to take notes”
Teaching Tension and Suspense in Texts with movie clips
Teaching tension and suspense can be a fun, motivating lesson when taught with movie clips. Try stretching across genres to make it even more diverse. Open their horizons. Here are a few to get it started. What we will learn: How word choice affects meaning causing tension within a text by citing evidence with descriptiveContinue reading “Teaching Tension and Suspense in Texts with movie clips”
Poe’s “Eldorado” opens up poetry week following teaching the “The Pearl”, a novella by John Steinbeck
The above image is a great bell ringer opener for a poetry unit to let students analyze. Here are a few poems to include in the unit that are used to compare and contrast off of the novella taught before the unit. By teaching a poetry unit after a novel that relates or can beContinue reading “Poe’s “Eldorado” opens up poetry week following teaching the “The Pearl”, a novella by John Steinbeck”
Quotes to Introduce the text, “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen
Ferrars and Elinor: “Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady’s admirable gifts… Beyond the range of human intellect.” -Dante, “ll Convito, Trattato Terzo 1. 1 Colonel Brandon and Marianne: “I love to talk with some old lover’s ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.” – John Donne, “Love’s Deity”Continue reading “Quotes to Introduce the text, “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen”
Adding higher DOK questions to your teaching-Paired Text Unit example using Mythology
Paired-text unit using mythology with other texts.1. Cold Equations by Tom Godwin 2. Prometheus by Josephine Preston Peabody 3. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus excerpt by Mary Shelley 4. Alcestis by Peabody 5. Star Trek episode quote – “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” -Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath ofContinue reading “Adding higher DOK questions to your teaching-Paired Text Unit example using Mythology”
Friday Teaching with Quotes-More from Robert Frost
“So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.” Stories that send the message that money isn’t everything or money doesn’t bring happiness are great with this quote being posted as the introduction to the text. “King Midas” is great paired with any text that centers around or involves the idea. “Home is the placeContinue reading “Friday Teaching with Quotes-More from Robert Frost”
Poetry quotes to teach with “Romeo and Juliet”
“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel–farewell! farewell.” -Lord Byron, “Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer” “Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Two in the Campagna” “The Devil hath not, in all his quiver’s choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweetContinue reading “Poetry quotes to teach with “Romeo and Juliet””
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