Making Connections: 56 Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways to Link School Curriculum to the World...
Teva Alon, Bergen County Academies, Cresskill, N.J.: “The American Dream” by Edward Albee and “Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall”This year, we read “The American Dream,” a satirical play by Edward Albee that explores the materialism and superficiality of American society. The characters are fully engaged in a capitalistic society and therefore exclusively…
Making Vocabulary Instruction Active With Language Field Guides
One of my former students, Michelle Kirchner, is a Ph.D. student in entomology and biology at North Carolina State University. Her specialty is ants.Whether 70 feet up in a tree or digging a hole to find them, Michelle learns about ants by taking careful notes in her field notebook, building a record of her discoveries…
Making Summer Special: The Week 7 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
WinnerAaron Kim, 16, from Tacoma, Wash., chose an article from the Well section headlined “How to Make a Staycation Feel Like an Actual Break” and wrote:It’s late July already. But, for so much of the summer, it felt like it had not even started. Each day of my break had been so much like the…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign’
5. How has the pandemic fostered new visibility for signing and music? Give at least one example.6. In creating Sing and Sign’s interpretation of Bach’s “St. John Passion,” Susanne Haupt said, “We didn’t want to just translate text. We wanted to make music visible.” How did Haupt, along with deaf people and a choreographer, do…
