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Top 5 Tips to Getting Poetry
Join Dr. Brandon Abdon and special guest Celine Gomez as they walk through some tried and true strategies for helping students understand and appreciate poetry more deeply
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ELA: Tweets to Check Reading Comprehension
I don’t know about you, but I hate grading reading comprehension questions. First of all, the answers usually could be “borrowed” from websites like...
Inspiring Success Stories of Emergent Bilingual Learners in Middle School
When I think about the success stories of my middle school emergent bilingual learners, I can’t help but smile. What about you? Sure, there were...
AP Human Geography: How to Improve FRQ Responses
This blog entry is designed to provide some hints to help your students improve their writing on the free-response section of the exam. The...
Exploring Dynamic Female Characters in Young Adult Literature
Dynamic and flat characterization has been in language arts and English curricula forever, it seems. How do we up the rigor as students advance in...
ELA Activity: Character Analysis Diagram
Analyzing complex characters in a novel or a short story requires students to look at many things such as how they’re described physically, but also...
Corroborating, Qualifying and Modifying a Historical Argument in AP History
This lesson aims to show teachers and students how to develop a historical argument using Document-Based AP History (DBQ) documents. We will use...
AP Language: Quote Displacement Activity
In this lesson, students will choose pages from a scene from an assigned novel (this can be done with a shorter text, too). Students will start by...
Top 3 Tips For AP Lang
Join Dr. Brandon Abdon and partners in AP Lang Timm Freitas (Garden Of English) and Beth Hall (Coach Hall Writes) to discuss their top tips for...
Tackling Literacy Challenges for Emergent Bilingual Middle Schoolers
Do you ever have one of those days where you ponder, “What on Earth am I doing, and am I doing it right???” I did. Often. And they were often...