Lesson of the Day: Are We Making Progress as a Planet? Teaching With The...
2. What was the goal, promise or prediction explored in the article? Who made it and why?3. What actually happened? In what ways were the goals or promises met? In what ways did they fall short?4. What obstacles or challenges were met in trying to reach the goals?5. What quote, image or detail from the…
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 the Front Page: How All the News Fits in Print
Washington editors, who once weren’t even allowed to speak, now beam in on a giant TV screen, as do editors based overseas. In these meetings, it is routine to hear from sections that rarely have front-page candidates. Nowadays they are looking for “home page” time — an ever-evolving 24-hour formula that allows far more stories…
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…
