Hello again, Today I came into class with a nice lesson plan, but I was short about 10 minutes. I never like to have the class sit around with nothing to do, because that leads to them talking, then getting loud, and it’s harder to get them back on task, so I had to come […]
Hey all, Today I passed out my Civil War in a Can project direction sheet. This is my big end of the year project. I saw another teacher using this with her English class, and I modified it for the Civil War. I really got tired of hearing boring reports read by the students, so […]
Today I had the students play a game I call, “Who’s On My Back?” I had the student create a trading card (see previous post) for homework. I had them pull it out and place it on their desk. Those that didn’t do the homework could not participate. I placed little pieces of Scotch tape on […]
Today I returned back to school. It was tough waking up, since I was not used to waking up so early. Today I gave a lecture using my Powerpoint presentation on the Civil War. After the notes, I was going to show a video, but I remembered an old activity that I used to do […]