End of the Semester craziness

To start the week I and a Middle School teacher form another part of the state hosted our 2nd webinar. This series was sponsored by the Cross Discipline Literacy Network and our most recent webinar may be viewed here:  http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/p34rissatg2/

For this webinar I shared another Historical Investigation from the book Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History: Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12 (Common Core State Standards for Literacy) by Chauncey Monte-Sano , Susan De La Paz , and Mark Felton. This time around my students investigated which method was more effective for freeing slaves, moral persuasion or more aggressive action. We learned a great deal with this investigation and had a great conversation about nonviolence and violence. In tied in nicely to a discussion about recent protests in the news, and the release of the film Selma in theaters.

As usual for this time of year, I am just too busy to blog about much. I was sick this week and that didn't help. Students were working on their final projects or studying for a test so not much exciting happening on that front! Next week will be the semester finals and then new and exciting things will be happening at the start pf the new semester.

So more good stuff to come next semester!