The first Paula Danziger book I read was THE CAT ATE MY GYM SUIT. It quickly became one of my favorites. When I finally became a teacher it was the first book I shared with students. Copies of other Danziger …Continue reading→
leads a charmed life. She is beautiful, intelligent, compassionate, and loves the vitality of freedom in pristine Vermont. Devoted to the “rock-bound hills” of the Green Mountains and finding God in every blade of grass, she doesn’t see the need for organized religion and its needless ri...
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I have a ticket for the Owlcrate Quarterly Romance box which should come in March. Because these are more expensive than the other books I buy, I want to read them, review them, and yap about them with others. For special editions, it’s the same thing, these are a few dollars more...
Middle grade books are generally shorter (meant for a ten-year-old’s attention span)—and that’s what many of us need in our reading lives right now. Aside from the satisfaction of finishing a book in one sitting, middle grade novels offer heaps of comfort, hope, and joy. They’re ...
Alison Walthew:I have only taughtV for Vendetta. By the way, the movie is terrible. It must not be shown to students if you are studying the novel. I started the novel off by telling the students to write out in prose exactly what information they got on the first page. They had to...
Very few students ever moved on to this level. For the few who did, there was still another set of classes called “Bet Midrash.” If you were smart enough and knew your Scriptures well enough to make it this far, you could go to a rabbi (teacher) to seek further education. The Ra...
10. I grade almost nothing during this time.At the end, there is a reflective writing piece as well as some kind of literary analysis writing, but students are ready for this based on the rich discussions they have experienced. There’s no perfect way ...
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