Rainy day-- time to play at the fair!
Short post today, since I wrote my daily missive last night.
We are going to go see cows, goats, chickens, bunnies, and so on today!
Huzzah!
And fried dough.
Take care,
C
The "productive struggle" and a week of hard teaching...April is the cruellest month...
UP, and enjoying a leisurely cup of coffee. It's Saturday. Yes, I'm sort of lazy this morning. It was a helluva busy and exhausting week. But in a few minutes, I'll get myself motivated-- there are things on my agenda that I want to get done. But I'm also going to make sure to put a little "me time" in there. It's all about balance. My AP Lit kids managed to engage in what is known as "productive struggle" this week-- and it worked. I wanted them to have to fight their way through an assignment (low stakes, but still a grade) and come out the other side being more competent. They were tasked with annotating T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Yeah, I'm that miserable *itch of a teacher. LOL It's rough going, to be sure. Then yesterday, I put them in pairs (no student input--work with whom you get) and assigned each pair a section of the poem to present an explication for, and they also had to answer four questions: what is the...
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