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"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'"
~Toni Morrison
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A Lesson
I invite you into my classroom. Please watch me as I teach a lesson on the Transcendentalist concept of the Over-Soul.
Projects
Projects
In the 2021-2022 school year, I decided to try a new approach to my Book Talk Project (see below) by selecting nonfiction as our overarching theme and by hosting a Literary Food Truck Festival with my students. For specifics on this school year's project, explore the resources, samples, and student and co-educator reviews on this site.
After attending the 2018 Virginia Library Association Conference, I worked with my school's librarian, Mrs. Rebecca Blevins, to create a book talk project for my DE English 12 students. The following school year, I further developed the project and plan to continue to utilize it annually, selecting a new focus theme with each new school year.
During the 2019-2020 school year, students focus theme was "othering" with student groups able to select texts from a variety of subcategories such as "othering based on mental illness" or "othering based on gender." Please click on the link above to review the Wakelet collection I curated for this project. If you would like to use any of my materials as a template, please make a copy. Do NOT request access.
Follow a case study of a recent Google Sites project with my Dual Enrollment (DE) English 12 students during the 2017-18 school year.
A Review
A Review
The proof, as my grandmother would say, is in the pudding. Please hear the words of my students, past and present, on their experiences in my class.
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