When Norman Ollestad was 11 years old, he was the sole survivor of a Cessna airplane crash in the mountains…
critical thinking
FREE Media Literacy Worksheets
Last week, Stanford researchers released a “bleak” report showing that more than 80 percent of students can’t determine the difference…
Let’s Keep Messing With Their Minds
As I’ve mentioned before, last year’s classes devoured my three sets of Brain Teasers during our Quarter Trio competitions, so…
Soft Skills = Hard Cash
(Or, Why the STEM Kids Need Our Classes) An item on my news crawl this week confirmed what we all…
20Time Project – Update #2
This post is part of an occasional series documenting my entry into project-based learning. This semester, my students will participate in…
Brave New World?
As every English teacher knows, dystopian young adult literature is on fire. Hunger Games. The Maze Runner. Divergent. Matched. Uglies.…
Ripped From the Headlines
I’m always on the prowl for engaging news stories that will give my high school English students access to high-quality…
Pop Culture = Bridge Into Classic Texts
“Hey, haters gonna hate you every time.” – Uncle Si, Duck Dynasty “The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”…