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Welcome to the March 4, 2008 edition of A teacher’s life blog carnival. Once again, I thank all the contributors who have and continue to make this blog carnival a success.
Gedaly Guberek presents Is Shakespeare Meant to be [...]
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Standards: 14.5, 15.7
Objective: Students identify, analyze, and use sensory imagery and figurative language.
Instructional Block
Activator: : List each of the five senses and write five phrases – adjective(s) + noun – that evoke vivid images, i.e., royal purple pashmina (seeing), screeching gears (hearing), sharp pins (touching), salty corn chips (tasting), musty cellar (smelling).
SENSE
PHRASE
Then complete the Hershey [...]
Welcome to the February 15, 2008 edition of a teacher’s life blog carnival. This is the third edition of the carnival and boasts some great submissions from educators from around the blogosphere!
Gedaly Guberek presents Finishing The Thought posted at The Bard Blog, saying, “About reading Shakespeare’s verse, and making sense of it”
GrrlScientist presents New [...]
Written in a style more conversational and readable than most texts about education, this book explores the most basic, and most crucial, skill that teachers strive to teach – reading. The authors stress that “learning to read depends on two critical factors: the teacher’s thorough understanding of the reading process itself, and his or [...]
Objective: Students will know and be able to respond to and analyze the effects of, form and figurative language, in order to uncover meaning in poetry.
Instructional Block
Activator: The highwaymen were often depicted as “bad” people. From the information you gathered yesterday, why do you think they were thought of in a negative way?
Mini lesson: Teach [...]
Shakespeare: His Life and Times
This lesson plan is designed to be an introduction for students who will be reading the play, Macbeth. It provides historical background for the life of the Bard
Check out more Macbeth Lesson Plans at out new site Lessonplans
Objective: Students will relate a work to its historical background and analyze [...]
Objective: Students will identify basic facts and main ideas and use them as a basis for interpretation.
Instructional Block
Activator: In twos or threes, share the five pieces of text in last night’s reading that you highlighted as significant.
Mini Lesson: 1) Intro-duce/teach/model text annotation using transparencies of last night’s article and the text you highlighted as significant [...]
Welcome to the February 1, 2008 edition of a teacher’s life blog carnival! Our second edition has seen an increase in quality submissions, so enjoy the contributions. Some submissions also appeared in our first edition due to my editorial inexperience, but that’s okay, they were informative and worth a second look!
Best Practices
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“The Next Generation – Children or Fools?”
By D.J. Morris
January 2008
I recently read a book on strategies for teaching children how to read. (Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop, Keene and Zimmermann, 1997.) At one point, the author expresses her concern that children, after reading a text, don’t know how [...]
