â€To touch the hearts of your pupils is the greatest miracle you can perform.†-Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
I have lots of old blog posts with ideas that I don’t remember and never get back to because I have so many old blog posts.
I am going to try to make a compilation of useful ideas for school that I wrote about.
A final exam paper using the newspaper.
Giving the point count at the beginning and having students go from 0 up.
Surfing the net for a pre-reading exercise with the novel
Using the Wall Street Journal to write poetry.
Shotgun Seminars. Still sounds great.
The post on the controversial topics. I could read some of them to my students, since I talk about this. I had forgotten I saved it online.
Plans for first night, which I think I do all of now.
Amazing sites for Paradise Lost. I wonder if there are ideas for how to explain to students that Satan is not the hero of the piece, as several of my students wrote.
Using internet in the classroom
How to Create Memorable Lectures
Why people don’t read short stories