Experience: Five years of teaching Middle School.
Led my previous district's curriculum committee to integrate Common Core and Curriculum Companion tool developed to meet CCSS requirements.
One of the biggest challenges I faced when implementing the CCSS was finding nonfiction resources appropriate for middle school.
This file is the guide I use with my students. We start with understanding why writer's write, identifying nonfiction elements (including an elaborated section on text structures), read a variety of reference material to notice the language and technique of authors, and finish with a lead-in to argumentative reading/writing (the unit I follow with).
8th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
Step by step directions and visual organizer as well as examples. Adapted from an original source by The Poetry Center and John Timpane to better fit the 8th grade classroom. Can be used 7th grade through 12th.
This document include a writing goal, necessary vocabulary, suggested prompts, and a process guide with space to fill in due dates. Prompt topics vary and their differences touch on the different intelligences described in Gardner's work (music, linguistic, intrapersonal, and visual).
6th - 9th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts
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Experience
Experience: Five years of teaching Middle School.
Led my previous district's curriculum committee to integrate Common Core and Curriculum Companion tool developed to meet CCSS requirements.
Teaching style
Focused on technology use to prep students for future work, as well as 21st century skills (cooperative learning, analysis, investigation).
My own education history
BA in English with a minor in education
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