Other activities – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

CPS, Literary Stuff, Other activities, Seventh Grade Behavior, The Outsiders

New Material, and OMG, Groups!

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I’ve been testing some new material lately. We finished Outsiders last week, and since S. E. Hinton managed to cram an example into the book of pretty much every single literary term we’re supposed to teach, I finally made a worksheet. And some new literary terms questions based on The Outsiders. (One, two, three) (Advertising: […]

Beowulf, Guest artist, Monsters on Maple Street, Other activities

Only 35% New Shtuff (But it’s Gold.)

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…I’ve been a little laggy about posting (again) because I’ve been revamping my school’s website. Check it out: http://lams.slcusd.org. …While I was checking out the sites for other schools in the district, I happened across a feature that Charlie Perryess, one of the English teachers at our sister middle school (about 1/2 of our 730-something […]

Moodle, Other activities, Outside links

Moodle Time.

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I usually spend about 8-10 days each year in the computer lab. First, I like to do at least one on-line type project. Most years lately, it’s usually the Langston Hughes WebTrack (through TrackStar, a beauty service I should probably talk about later). And until last year, I usually also got in wikis or a […]

Other activities, Outside links

Mental Floss

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Friday is quiz/test day. That means mental floss. Here’s todays batch of brain teasers… What do reindeer have that no other animals have? A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick. I’m just betting […]

Other activities, Presenting the Book, Stories of Seventh Grade, The Outsiders

“It’s all about the love, then.”

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Already missed a day. Dang. Tuesday was big day. I introduced KBAR and our first Show not Tell assignment. First KBAR. You can read the KBAR page for yourself, but during the first part of the year, while we are reading The Outsiders aloud in class, I try to use my mutation of our school-wide […]