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I like to start the school year introducing my students to what being gifted can be all about... the good and the not so good qualities that often come with giftedness. Odd Boy Out, a picture book by Don Brown about the life of Albert Einstein, provides a great look at a character most of us already know. Before this book, I never knew much about Albert's childhood. But after reading it, I felt that my students could really benefit from hearing about the struggles that even someone as brillia

Using APEC format, students are asked to answer a reflective question about the Shel Silverstein poem- The Yipiyuk. I use this poem at the beginning of the year with my gifted students to introduce/practice APEC and to introduce subjective questioning... where no answer is necessarily wrong, unless it is not defended.