For this activity, students are tasked with creating an Instagram post imagining that their assigned vocabulary word was a person posting on social media. All aspects of the post should relate to the meaning of the vocabulary word. It is more than...
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We are all constantly practicing the skill of character analysis. I remind my often insecure students of this fact before we dive into a difficult...
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One of the greatest rewards of teaching history is when students are able to show that they can think in a complex manner and recognize that history...
Back in college, an older Latino gentleman asked me, “When you have kids one day, are you going to raise them as Mexican or white?” The question...
Annotation is a life skill, especially for our college-bound students. Reading something with a purpose, a strategy to comprehend at a higher level,...
While the 2023 AP English Language and Composition exam represents year 4 of assessment using the analytic scoring guide and year 3 of the changes to...
Do your students struggle to understand the difference between Comparison, Continuity, and Causation when writing essays? Using this presentation...
For some students, summer is an exit from all things academic and literature, which means they might be coming back in the fall clueless on the...
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