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College Personal Statement Workshop
If your students would like to take a crash course on all the ins and outs of writing their college personal…
Read issue →Syntactical Mastery (Yellow Belt Version)
While it's admittedly difficult to figure out the College Board's gobbledygook explanations of what they deem to be…
Read issue →Active Voice "To Be" Verb Swatter Bash (Gamification)
One tell-tale sign of a struggling and emerging writer is that they have an over- reliance on "To Be" verb usage. A huge…
Read issue →Political Memes: Media Literacy Writing Workshop
As we pivot into a new academic year and the inevitability of starring down the political barrel of an election…
Read issue →Unpacking the FRQs (AP Lit)
Each year when the AP exams are released (both Lang. and Lit.), I sit down at my desk and crank out each of the FRQs. In…
Read issue →College Is A Scam ... Or Is It? (Synthesis Essay Writing Workshop)
In today's writing workshop video, students are asked to tussle with the following essential question: college is a scam…
Read issue →Gamifying M.C. Test-Prep
By sheer coincidence, I discovered something pretty cool this academic year: gamifying our discussions of poetry…
Read issue →The Simpsons Predicted That ... Or Did They? (Synthesis Essay)
In the words of one of more reluctant learners, this lesson was "FAT!" Here's my thinking: given that engagement seems…
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