7th Graders Find Themselves, Make Sense of World through PoetryMAPLEWOOD * They sat in metal chairs in the basement of The BookHouse Sunday waiting for their...Crouch, Elisa
Self-pity is a useless indulgence, Yet he has compassion for the weak; he never places himself above others, for how can he? All this being said, and human nature being what it is, his greatest enemy may yet be none other than himself. --9th Graders 选诗 O...
Today was the first day of the English Workshop at Al Bashaer High School in Sakhnin, Israel. There were four classes of 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. The classes only last for 45 minutes and that seems too short The time went by quickly. We barely got started talking about Emily Dickins...
There are also examples of student work peppered throughout the text and ideas on how to scaffold the lessons for all learners. The text focuses on how to make the included materials work for any teacher in any grade. Just as there is no “one size fits all” approach to education, this...
The study was carried out in two classrooms in a Finnish Language and Literature course and conducted in spring 2017 for one week. Two teachers collaborated in planning the three separate 45-min lessons, in which the 7th graders wrote poems in Finnish using the Poetry Machine with laptop comput...
I was beginning to hate poetry again just listening to these eighth graders. “Please, please, we’re not going to do apoetry unit, are we? Say no!” they begged. And I didn’t—do a poetry unit. And I haven’t—done a poetry unit. ...
Far from enjoying the schadenfreude of this moment, I cringed at seeing his humiliation. I was disillusioned to realize that an older boy could be so easily broken. I had thought that second graders were made of stiffer stuff. It seemed as if the dark side of the grass always being greene...