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Month: July 2018

“Tugging” to Impact Student Participation

“I usually feel like a submarine, but that doesn’t work in this class,” said with mixed humor and frustration. My sixth grade class was reading the novel Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and we were at a point where Dicey, the

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Who Owns This? A Vocabulary Word Wall Activity

Dragging a chair to my side cupboards and stepping onto my counter top, I hoped the principal wouldn’t walk in. The lesson planned was complete, but the class period was not – so I took a gamble on filling the

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Learning from Anne Frank

 “Ms G – did you know Miep Gies was real?” My first thought was, yes, you know we are reading the play based on the Diary of Anne Frank … which is real. My second thought was that I was

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