I teach two regular 9th grade English classes. I have some smart students who could be in Pre-AP classes if they pushed themselves, but that is the problem, lack of motivation.
We recently had a three day weekend for Easter. I assigned two chapters in To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) over the long weekend. My students [...]
Why Won’t You Read?
April 13th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Tags: English Resources · Nings · To Kill a Mockingbird · Web 2.0 · class assignments
Teachers who Twitter Class Assignment
April 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I recently used blogs I found on Twitter to create an assignment in my Read the Net class. Read the Net is an English elective class designed to get students to read and write using Web 2.0 tools. I usually use a variety of web tools: wikis, blogs, and nings, but recently I decided to [...]
Tags: 21st Century Literacy · Technology Resources · Twitter · Web 2.0
