My seventh graders are reading “Rip Van Winkle” this week, and I’m having them listen to a theatrical recording of the story in class. As we were listening to it today, I was following along in my book. I realized that the up-to-date edition of my text book left out a very important word which was [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Disappearance of Assiduity
Posted in Schoolteacherish, tagged Rip Van Winkle, Slate.com, Teaching, Vocabulary on 16 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One Step at a Time
Posted in Schoolteacherish, tagged God, Personal Narrative, Teaching on 10 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon I was desperately trying to help my 7th graders understand the importance of “personal narrative” or expressive writing, or creative non-fiction or whatever you want to call it. They vehemently insisted that it was not important, thank you very much, that they were going to go to college and have their brilliant and wealthy [...]
