Regular readers of my blog know I am really invested in backward design (Understanding by Design or UbD). I have several UbD units posted over at the UbD Educators wiki, but I decided maybe I should explain them a little bit more just in case you are interested in using them.
After I wrote my UbD [...]
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The Death of the Salesmen: A Flat World Lens for Arthur Miller’s Play
July 15th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Assessment · Teaching Literature
Week in Reflection: March 31-April 4, 2008
April 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments
This week was a really good week for me, personally, which I think translates often into good teaching.
One of my ninth grade classes is completely done with The Catcher in the Rye, and the other is still in the discussion part of studying the novel. The discussions have been good. Students always seem [...]
Tags: Weekly Reflection
Week in Reflection: March 24-28, 2008
March 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The end of this week leaves me feeling somewhat exhausted. I was rear-ended last weekend, and I have been dealing with the problems that entails — reporting the accident, waiting for the police report so I can file a claim with the other guy’s insurance, getting an estimate for damage (nearly $1300), and worrying [...]
Tags: Teaching Grammar · Teaching Literature · Weekly Reflection
Week in Reflection: March 17-21
March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This was a crazy week. Monday was a teacher workday; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, our schedules were different from “normal”; and Friday was Purim — we didn’t have classes and spent the day celebrating. The students were pretty good considering all the schedule disruptions. I had a really good discussion with my senior class about [...]
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Week in Reflection: March 10-14, 2008
March 15th, 2008 · 15 Comments
This week, one of my ninth grade classes finished The Catcher and the Rye, and we began discussing it in class. We also studied adjective and adverb phrases. The students really enjoyed the discussion of the novel, and I think they liked the book a great deal. That novel always seems to be popular, especially [...]
Tags: Movies in English Class · Web 2.0 · Weekly Reflection
Week in Reflection: March 3-7, 2008
March 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I think the Death of a Salesman unit I’m doing with my seniors is going well. At any rate, they seem engaged in the material and are making good connections. I am very excited about starting the part of the unit when we make connections to The World is Flat and globalization and [...]
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Week in Reflection: February 25-29, 2008
March 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
The Lamppost Blogger recently mentioned a weekly goal to be reflective about the week’s teaching. I love the idea and decided to steal it, and I meant to start yesterday, too, but the day got away from me.
I am really happy with the unit I have written on Death of a Salesman. My main worry [...]
Tags: Weekly Reflection
YouTube is Blocked…
February 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Carol recently left a comment regarding my UbD unit for Death of a Salesman. This unit utilizes several videos I found on YouTube in order to help students learn more about the concepts central to the unit; however, Carol says that one stumbling block she will encounter if she chooses to use this unit [...]
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Death of a Salesman
February 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I have been struggling with writing a UbD plan for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. I think have have one sketched out, though I still need to create guiding questions for various pieces of the unit, including YouTube videos and a selection from Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat.
In looking at the [...]
Tags: Professional Development · Teaching Literature · Wikis
