Today’s writing is an opinion post from my juniors yesterday: what are your hopes for summer 2020? What are your worries? The opinion writing question…
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Today’s writing is an opinion post from my juniors yesterday: what are your hopes for summer 2020? What are your worries? The opinion writing question…
My juniors’ writing prompt today starts with the NYT article “Reopening Has Begun. No One is Sure What Happens Next.” Those discussions have started about…
You would think a 400-word editorial would be a piece of cake for an English teacher to jot off, right? WRONG. Getting my thoughts down…
This one is our weekly New York Times Learning Center writing prompt, but it’s also a HUGE question on the minds of teachers and students…
Read more Day 24: Should schools change how they grade during the pandemic?
(Another writing prompt brought to you by the New York Times Learning Center — check out the article & full prompt here!) Life in the…
Read more Day 18: Does quarantine lead to more conflict at home?
This “reading three books at a time” thing is HARD. I was able to find my favorite three lines from them so far, though! Justice:…
(This is a post coming from the New York Times Learning Center — I love seeing your comments appear on their website, too! How cool!)…
Man–isn’t this the question we are all asking ourselves lately? I put it to my junior English classes on Monday of this week (and I am…
I had to choose my books carefully for each of our classes. Though being at home seems like it should provide plenty of time to read anything…
The New York Times article I chose for Friday’s writing was “We Need Social Solidarity, Not Just Social Distancing,” because being distant from everyone has…