Teaching middle school students with hormones raging and preoccupied minds on today’s social media, a teacher HAS to keep them motivated and at attention. Teaching bell to bell is one of your best tools with no added skill to be involved other than planning well. You ask, How do I do that? How do YOUContinue reading “Bell to Bell-Classroom Management in an ELA classroom”
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Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense: for always the inmost becomes the outmost,–and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgement.” Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Be careful what you think inside for it becomes so when comes out on the outside.Continue reading “Quoted advice we all should take once in a while from Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
When teaching a text use a quote to introduce a lesson. There is power in quotes.
“It’s not the way it used to be… people ain’t the way they used to be.”― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery This quote can take a lead into several themes in with a paired text. Whether you take this into a Dystopian theme or a change is good or population control, use a quote to make aContinue reading “When teaching a text use a quote to introduce a lesson. There is power in quotes.”
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