November 18, 2006
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Weekend agenda:
-watch Arsenal v. Newcastle
-several hours of reading….
Golda Meir’s autobiography,
Samuel Freedman’s book “Small Victories,” – the NYT guy who included me in his article sent me a book he wrote about 1st year teacher’s in NYC – ,
In The Middle – a book on teaching reading and writing
-prepare a lesson on reading comprehension strategies – having students practice saying outloud what they are thinking when reading, so they are aware of their metacognition, their thoughts as they read
-2 good runs/workouts
-research and write a 5 paragraph essay about how water pollution or how draughts cause large numbers of deaths in Africa each year
-weekly room cleaning
-journaling and ending the evening with reading
-creating and checking off to-do lists
Comments (4)
As a total Gunners fan, I’ll assume they’ll crush Newcastle, but I’ve always liked Newcastle too, and so this year has been pretty ugly “up north”
Just did an experiment yesterday in a 4th/5th room with WYNN, having the kids talk about each paragraph (the software is a text-reader with a voice recorder) as they read it-highlighted it. Interesting to see. I’ll have to see how the project goes…
u teach in New York?
I read small victories my freshman year in college. It’s a really good, if not really depressing, book!
creating and checking off to do lists is so satisfying.