Australian actor Sam Rechner has been cast in the second season of Heartbreak High as Rowan. He tells us all about the newbie.
Also, Miss Jenn announced they are doing Beauty and the Beast for the spring musical.
Netflix series Everything Now follows 16-year-old Mia (Sophie Wilde) as she readjusts to high school while recovering from an eating disorder.
Historical fiction has gotten a bad rap for being dull, boring, and even predictable, but this book nerd is here to tell you that's a pretty unfair assessment. Forget the grumbling and groaning you used to do in your high school history class,…
If you're a reader of my blog, you know that I big puffy heart Ralph Fletcher. His memoir, Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid is a staple mentor text in my classroom. Every chapter is just a short, little snippet and rich with teachable moments. This lesson uses a chapter titled "Friends." Though the chapter is short, students will get a lot out of it and will likely need two or more days to finish their final piece. Lesson Eight: Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid ("Friends") by Ralph Fletcher. (Clicking on the above image should allow you to print!) Thanks for reading! Happy Teaching!! * * * * * * * * * * * Writing with Mentors Series Lesson Plans: Summer 2016 The Important Book by Margaret WiseBrown If I Ran the School by Bruce Lansky The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt The Writing of Roald Dahl The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka How to Get a Girlfriend by the Kindergarten Students of Zagreb, Croatia Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff and David Catrow
Do I like you? You can ~bet on it~.
In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the TV remake of Heathers has been put off from its initial March 7 release date.
What are the essential tools for teaching rhetoric and rhetorical analysis? This blog series will explore one tool each week. Aristotle’s Appeals Perhaps the best-known part of Aristotelian r…
Nicholas Galitzine in “Mary & George”, Jake Gyllenhaal in “Road House” und Zac Efron in “Ricky Stanicky”: Das sind die Streaming-Highlights im März
There are a lot of suggestions floating around out there about what to do on the first day of school. But what should you do on the second day in Language Arts? I already did a post on using a short story to establish how you approach the task of reading. In this post I’m ... Read more
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Yup, we've all been there.
Bayside? Ridgewood?
As hard as things might seem right now for high school or university students entering the job market, it’s probably nothing compared to what these kids had to go through in early 1900s America. This photo series, archived by the Library of Congress, shows what conditions were like for child laborers before child labor was largely eliminated in 1938.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is streaming now!
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." ― Dalai Lama
