Pomegranate beginnings

Every year is different... but this year was DIFFERENT. I know every state, district, and school did it differently, but my district made it...

It's that time again! When I realize I have postponed posting too long and now have a lot to update--but less than I should because hone...

Recently, I posted about Monday tips and tricks and included John Piazza's weekly schedule. Last week, John Foulk, my colleague and fri...

In my first post , I discussed building my unit and in my second , I talked about some variations on dictations that I've been exploring...

In my last post , I detailed how I built my Pliny the Elder unit for this year and discussed some upcoming posts. For this second post, I wa...

When Rachel and I started this blog, we were beginning our journey into untextbooking. We've shared our successes and failures, our idea...

I am often asked how I start a level I class (or any level) using Comprehensible Input and using no textbook. Certainly the beginning of the...

I was looking back at my recent posts and realized I never linked the article I wrote (in December) over the war unit I did with my students...

While this was my 6th full year (7th including all teaching time) teaching, this was my first year in a new school. Not only was the locatio...

This is a two day activity (it could easily be a three day activity or a one day activity with an upper level class) that I came up with to ...