Another phenomenal week has come and gone!  We have moved forward into the Romantic period of American Literature and been exposed to the Fireside Poets. Monday began the week with an article about the problem of Ebola in Africa and the solutions that were being tested to try and stop this out of control spread […]

I am taking a class on 21st century skills and had to create a VoiceThread that demonstrated the use of the 4 Cs: creative, collaborative, critical thinking/problem solving, and communication.  How do you think I did?

WOW!  What an exciting week! APA Urges Congress not to cut Food Stamps Monday was an exciting lesson in Patrick Henry and the Speech at the Virginia Convention. We began with an Argumentative Article of the Week Analysis about the APA asking Congress not to cut Food Stamps Spending. We compared Henry’s use of rhetorical […]

What an exciting week we have had! We began this week by finishing up with The Crucible and the Puritans.  John Proctor on the scaffold in the position of the Christ figure is always a #provocative moment.  Monday we watched the end of the movie and then worked in groups to create posters that explained […]

Today we will play an exciting game of Puritan Rhetoric using Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  We are going to use the new Chromebook with had purchased through Donors Choose and Socrative for our entry point. So exciting! Winners?  You will have to wait for pictures this afternoon to see what […]

This was a great 4 day week!  Kids were #engaged-classes were #exciting-everything had a #purpose! Started the week with a very #engaging class about Mob Mentality & Mass Hysteria.  The students moved through 3 of our classrooms inspecting literature and historical events that represent these ideas.  We analyzed the cattiness (mob mentality) of the Puritans […]

I am so excited about tomorrow’s class!  It is going to be like no class you have ever attended before.  There are going to be things to do, things to watch, people to see, movement-movement-movement, things to wear~I mean to tell you this is going to be a phenomenal class!  Can’t wait to see you […]