A field trip to my house
My students work really hard, so on Friday, I decided to treat them by having class and watching Beloved at my house. My home is just five or so blocks away fr...
Category: teaching
Stealing takes just a second. Character takes longer.
I love the students at my school, and that’s one reason why I’ve stuck around for 12 years. But unfortunately, they steal a lot of my stuff. The th...
Your homework is due tonight.
Most homework is due at the beginning of the next class. The teacher assigns something and tells the students, “This is due tomorrow.” There are ma...
Getting ready for online book discussions
My students struggled with Beloved. It was a tough book: intense, confusing, long. I found out that my students have trouble tackling 100 pages at a time on th...
My thoughts about homework
Everybody’s talking about homework these days. There’s too much. Or maybe we should flip our classroom practice and change homework into what we us...