Writing prompts. In Mexico I Left - Things I'll Never Say. Telling our Story. Mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt/doc/16940/MPS+HS+Narrative+Writing_Guide.pdf. East of Eden. Crash Course! Cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/books_in_PDF/Brave New World.PDF. Literature. Jefferson County Schools, TN. Lord of the Flies masks. Below are some of the masks my 12th graders created during our Lord of the Flies unit. Consult the link list to the right for the assignment instructions. Hool District of Oconee County. Educational Videos and Games for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English. Mr. Mellott 1003 - Home 1003. Introduction to Grammar - Extra Practice Worksheet. Ms. Haak English Teacher.
21st Century Education. Dklaus. TodaysMeet. Teaching Generation Text! Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning. In Defense of the 'Freedom Writers' - Erin Gruwell. The teacher who inspired the 2007 Hilary Swank film still believes memoir writing is the best way to reach struggling students. Hillary Swank, portraying Erin Gruwell, fist-bumps with a student in Freedom Writers. (Paramount Pictures) In the early 1990s, a young schoolteacher named Erin Gruwell made a radical change in her curriculum. Frustrated by her efforts to inspire her low-achieving students, she handed out journals and asked the kids to write about their own lives.
Today, Gruwell runs the Freedom Writers Foundation, which aims to help teachers "engage, enlighten, and empower at-risk students to reach their full potential. " There's a scene in the movie Freedom Writers where Hillary Swank is standing helplessly in front of a blackboard, trying to teach essay writing while the students revolt. When I first walked into that classroom, there were 150 kids who hated writing, hated me, hated everything. What inspired you to focus on memoirs? Students have to be able to think critically.