Kimberly Tracewski

These files are everything you need to start a 20Time project in your classroom. This includes Assignment details Introductory Steps How to create a Weebly Details for Progress Speech 20 Time is an awesome ongoing activity that allows students to research and practice something that they are truly interested in. You can do this for any extended amount of time, stretching from a few weeks to a year. During this time, the students research, practice, investigate, and blog about their findings

Every year, I ground my teaching in different mantras. I try to use these instead of the typical classroom rules. While I still have classroom rules and procedures floating around my room, these mantras help inspire students to do their best and help provide them with reasoning behind the rules. I pulled my mantras this year from myself, as well as people in history including: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Aurelius, and Toni Morrison. This stack includes 9 different mantras including: Excellence ma

This is a basic Graphic Organizer to help students take notes on characterization. It includes a spot for the character trait and the textual evidence to support that inference.