Room C Serendipity
It was Tuesday night of Portfolio week for my seniors, and I was planted at the Room C table with my laptop and my tall cup of tea, ready to help any of my English IV students who wanted a little...
View ArticleOverhauling the Ninth-grade History Curriculum
Dr. Delvecchio and I just finished day #2 with our new freshmen historians. We’re also on day #2 of a bit of an experiment this year. Instead of following the well-worn path of the traditional...
View ArticleGetting out of the way
Last week and this, English IV Honors: Turning Toward Home met for Thursday’s class in my living room. We move here when I feel that the seminar table in Room C is too vast an ocean of oak, when I...
View ArticleSimulation of the U.K. Parliament
Last night (Thursday, 14 December), the AP Comparative Government class participated in a simulation of a House of Commons debate in the fabulously refurbished Study Hall. The atmosphere was formal and...
View ArticleSenior Moment
Fortuitous intersection: I discovered through my English IV Honors students that those of them in AP Psychology were studying Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory just as freshmen in English read...
View ArticleDecisive Moments…
As the U.S. Supreme Court convenes this week to hear oral arguments on a number of important issues, the History Department launched a new elective course titled “Decisive Moments in United States...
View ArticleReunion
“OK, we need some dogs–specifically, ‘a wolfish troop of watchdogs.’” “Me! Me! I’ll be a dog!” “Me, too!” “OK, but the text is clear that you’ll have to fawn on Telemakhos when he arrives at the hut.”...
View ArticleWorld War I in the classroom, through the archives, and on stage
Students in the 10th Grade European history course recently wrapped up their study of World War I. The unit highlighted best practices in education including differentiated instruction and project...
View ArticleLost in Translation, then Found
Muffled giggles from the other side of the seminar table. I walk around, find that one of my freshmen is on a page early in The Catcher in the Rye. “What’s funny, guys?” More giggles, but no response....
View ArticleWhat a wonderful way to start the day…
So, the photo’s not that great, but the content of it is worth its weight in gold. This is what I found when I walked into my classroom this morning. Not so impressive, you say. But, what it...
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