“If I have daughters, I’m going to encourage them to play ‘President’ and ‘Activist,’ and not ‘Princess.” @NicholasFerroni I tried to get my son to play princess when he was little. His cousins actually got him to wear a dress and a crown once. My heart drooped a little the Read more…
I needed a question that tied to something more personal and yet more universal for my teenage audience. And quite frankly, my class is both exceptionally small this semester and entirely white. Nevertheless, they are not unsympathetic sorts, and they are actually very reflective and open-minded individuals. This does not, Read more…
Driving Question: Is the person who other people see the person who you really are? The goal of the driving question is, in fact, to drive students, to impel students to desire to know MORE. I’ve finally gotten past the idea of organizing essential questions for the language classroom around vocabulary or Read more…
lckillian…MrsH_English…Huerter0…SraH_Espanol…Sra. Spanglish I graduated with a BS and thought I was an English teacher. I got Spanish certification and became a Spanglish teacher. I moved and quit teaching English (job availability, you know). I got my first English I class on top of 2 Spanish I classes and 2 Spanish Read more…