holidays Archives - Room 2209 https://room2209.com/category/holidays/ Finding the key to the secondary ELA classroom Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:10:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/room2209.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-Room-2209-Logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 holidays Archives - Room 2209 https://room2209.com/category/holidays/ 32 32 220410104 What I Teach the Week Before Thanksgiving https://room2209.com/2020/11/16/what-i-teach-the-week-before-thanksgiving/ https://room2209.com/2020/11/16/what-i-teach-the-week-before-thanksgiving/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:07:00 +0000   The weeks before a break always seem like the longest.  The kids are restless, I’m restless, and we all understand that all we’re really doing is biding our time until that last bell before break.   Thanksgiving is a different type of beast altogether though.  My district gives an entire week, the first real break ... Read moreWhat I Teach the Week Before Thanksgiving

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