Archives for 2009
Last year, I cut back on the stuff I gave for Christmas. While my younger siblings still got books, other family members got gift certificates ...
Last year, I cut back on the stuff I gave for Christmas. While my younger siblings still got books, other family members got gift certificates ...
Last year, I cut back on the stuff I gave for Christmas. While my younger siblings still got books, other family members got gift certificates ...
Last year, I cut back on the stuff I gave for Christmas. While my younger siblings still got books, other family members got gift certificates ...
The Gist: There are pedants and anti-pedants. I don't know which one I am. I see value in both. It makes being an English teacher difficult. The Whole Story: One of ...
The Gist: We're dedicated to teaching the whole book, but not the whole video. This does a disservice to our kids. They don't know how to read NBC. The ...
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The Gist: It's not about the tools. We have to stop talking as though it's about the tools. We need to start talking about what we want to ...
The Gist: We have 1:1 laptops. I'm using the laptops to have kids jigsaw an understanding of the world in which Henry V exists. It's putting their research ...
The Gist: I got a scholarship to get my master's degree. It has me thinking about the kind of entitled, empowered learner I've become. I wonder if the ...
The Gist: For a year of my life I lived by some pretty helpful rules. I'm reviving the experiment in preparation for my next marathon and to ...
One of my Grade 12 Students, Bre Bonner, brought me her copy of Eclipse today. As she handed it to me, I observed the relative ...
The Gist: Twilight Saga = [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="643" caption="Cycle of Abuse"][/caption] The Whole Deal: I bought my younger sister Kirstie her copy of Breaking Dawn for her birthday. ...
This semester, I'm teaching a senior English elective class called Sexuality and Society in Literature. Our first text of the year was Sophocles' Oedipus Rex along ...
In his Sunday NYT column "An Echo Chamber of Boom and Bust," Yale economics and finance professor Robert Shiller explained global finance thusly: ...[T]hink of the ...
This has been living on the 'Book for a while now, but I figured I might as well give it a shout here as well: You ...
One of the best books about teaching I've ever read is Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students by ...
15 August 09 At each of the other sites we'd worked at this summer, the closing ceremony had been a bit of rush. Our team had ...
14 August 09 As a sort of culminating activity for the week's subject-specific sessions, Silvia headed up a showcase evening Friday. The original idea was for ...
13 August 09 Last Thursday was a bit of a frustration. I say this because understanding last Thursday is important to understanding the mood with which ...
12 August 09 As several of the teachers attending this week's workshops are commuting to Utimishi Academy rather than boarding here, the late afternoon workshops are ...
11 August 09 In the same way I forget how daunting beginning to work with kids can be to novice teachers until I get to observe ...
10 August 09 Things are a little different in Gilgil. For one, workshops are starting Tuesday and running through Saturday. For two, this is the second ...
DAY: Commenting on Student Writing
Patrick Higgins tweeted this article from the National Writing Project on commenting on student writing. This section stuck to my ribs: When I was younger and more ...
Comments Posted by Mr. Chase on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:19 am.
Filed under commenting, CtW, nwp, writing.