Those of you that follow me on Facebook may have seen a series of posts straight from my Kindle this weekend. I started reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and have incredible word envy. Here are some excerpts that I love love loved. Loved, I tells ya. Re: the Noise Re: …
Briefly, I define mentor texts as a piece of a writing used as a model. There is more to it, but let’s start there. Eventually, I’ll post a page with more of a definition or guide. I’m not sure exactly how Mentor Text Mondays will go, but you can bet on your teaching patootie, that…
Today we started to write memoirs. While I’m glad to share the steps leading up to these very-first-inkling drafts, I’d rather just show y’all what they came up with. Here is the mentor text we used. It’s from Knots in My Yo-yo String by Jerry Spinelli. We are using his memoirs as our mentor text…
More specifically, 100 Good Things. I discovered a new magazine recently. I was drawn in by the cover (see photo to the left). True, the word GOOD screams out at you. This may have been the first thing I saw. Additionally, the cover is made from a matte-artsy-mod-hipster material and I wanted to pick it…
Earlier this summer I was struck by a piece of brilliance. No jokes please…. I was watching the new Green Lantern movie and learning, for the first time, about the story of the Green Lanterns. Have you heard it? I will ‘splain. No. There is too much. I will sum up… There are tons of Green Lanterns in…
I discovered this link today while on a teacher networking site called Edmodo (more on that later). I’m still playing around with it, but will absolutely be using it this week. I’m going to use it in art class though, and sneak the writing in. Bwahahahaha. From what I can tell so far, the site…
As promised, here are the much anticipated photos of our Spirit Day project based on Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach (see previous post here). The students are enjoying looking at the different squares and their small selves flying above the city.
For Spirit Day yesterday, I used a project inspired by the book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. In this story a girl imagines she is flying above the night skies of New York and claiming it for herself. She reclaims the union building that won’t let her father join due to the color of his…
Wear The Cape 