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Ukraine: Performing Rhetorical Analysis of Zelenskyy's Speech
Over the last couple of days, my AP Language students and I tackled Zelenskyy’s appeal (speech) to the Russian people.…
Read issue →Edit: Gamifying the Taeching of Close Reading
Hi, folks – Looks like the links for the videos were glitching in my original email. So, let’s try this … Here’s the…
Read issue →Gamifying the Development of Close Reading Skills
It’s hard to believe that within this strange curveball of a year, it is already the middle of March. For many of us,…
Read issue →Teach It "Write" 5-Week Mastermind
Teachers are burnt to a crisp in the new “normal” of pandemic teaching; and sadly – the end doesn’t seem to be in sight.…
Read issue →Rhetorical Analysis Can Spark Joy
Rhetorical analysis typically doesn’t spark much joy in our students. Of the expository modes, it lacks luster and…
Read issue →Getting To The Bottom Of Student Disengagement
As a teenager, I was a wannabe renegade anarchist punk with spiked green hair and piercings … and to be honest ... in my…
Read issue →Death By Scrabble
Death By Scrabble was the magic bullet I was looking for! Like many of you, given the apathy and disengagement of…
Read issue →Gamifying How To Perform Syntactical Reads
Apart from Nancy Dean’s seminal text, Voice Lessons, there isn’t much on the market as far as resources go to help…
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