Every year I teach Desiree’s Baby. It’s my favorite short story to teach students; the look of shock on their faces at the end… it’s awesome. The first year I taught it, I was shocked at how little the kids knew about race. A lot of my students know what race FEELS like: they know … Read moreUsing “Race: The Power of Illusion” to Dispel Racial Ideas in Preparation for Desiree’s Baby
I love reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream with my kids. Over the years I’ve realized that a lot of them do not have the context to understand the first scene of the play. I discovered the animated show Horrible Histories while searching for a quick way to give them that context in a way that they’d actually … Read moreGroovy Greeks: An Overview of the Ancient Greeks for Context
I love teaching Harrison Bergeron. I take a whole week to go through it. And my kids seem to love it too… which makes me love it even more. Things You Will Need to Teach This Lesson: · Instructions · Harrison Bergeron PowerPoint · Index Cards · Bill of Rights · Day 1 Opener Handout … Read moreTeaching Plot and Inference with Harrison Bergeron
We had three weeks this month: the first week was taken up by STAAR retesting. The third week was all about semester exams. This left me with only the second week of December for anything instructional. It also meant that December was going to be a themed WEEK instead of a themed MONTH. What better … Read more‘Tis the Season