https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw Teachers are constantly tweaking curricula and trying new projects, strategies, and lessons. Reflect on elements of your classes you have changed over the past couple of years. Attach the new successful docs, slides, and ideas on this Padlet. This will help us see the inspiring and vibrant things happening in ELA classrooms. en-us 2018-09-24 16:12:50 UTC 2023-03-28 21:50:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e9.png https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527679830 Saves me lots of time on grading and removes excess point values. Also allows for more opportunity to assess students independently rather than ranking/comparing their work to one another. -JHK]]> 2023-03-22 19:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527679830 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527682415 After reading The Best We Could Do, students followed Thi's lead by interviewing someone in their family for an oral history video/podcast. -JHK]]> 2023-03-22 19:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527682415 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527688620 After reading Long Way Down, students chose a creative writing prompt and developed incredible stories, poems, etc. They could either: write a sequel, write from a different characters perspective, or write the novel as a children's book. I attached one of the incredible submissions of a sequel. -JHK]]> 2023-03-22 19:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527688620 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527694742 Using some ideas from The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop I introduced four elements of author's craft (voice, imagery, characterization, flow) at the start of the year and have been practicing them with every piece of lit we've read thus far. It's been really cool to see the student's understanding grow! This semester we added foreshadowing, irony, symbolism, and conflict to our discussion of author's craft. -JHK]]> 2023-03-22 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2527694742 slucero3 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529310646 This activity worked  well with my juniors.  They talked through multiple connections of themes, objects, and characters from Catcher in the Rye. Some groups even shared their analysis. ]]> 2023-03-23 18:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529310646 slucero3 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529311909 2023-03-23 18:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529311909 slucero3 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529324079 Students have found choice boards an insightful, rewarding way to free-write at the beginning of class.  Most topics revolve around students' lives, their thought processes, and how they interpret the world. Some other topics celebrate poetry, short stories, art, and pictures.  The more students write, interpret, justify, and ruminate on a creative topic, the more they discover themselves and their identities.]]> 2023-03-23 18:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529324079 jshapiro37 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529515666 This week I taught a mini-unit highlighting the literary properties of ads and how they use ethos, pathos, logos, metaphor, hyperbole, etc. to sell products. Students analyzed ads and are now creating their own. - JS]]> 2023-03-23 22:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2529515666 https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535601769 Reading and research unit about the US criminal (in)justice system. Resource links embedded into the slide images. -JHK]]> 2023-03-28 20:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535601769 gpine https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535667885 Resources from Chris LC's workshop in the fall of '22]]> 2023-03-28 21:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535667885 gpine https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535671368 2023-03-28 21:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/slucero3/9vuijjq8urcw/wish/2535671368