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Author Archives: Bill Sullivan
Damon Galgut’s, The Promise
After a seven year hiatus, previously nominated writer, Damon Galgut, delivers an emotional and introspective look into family dynamics and the manifestations of grief. Through the lives of three south African children, Astid, Anton and Amor, Galgut mirrors the turmoil … Continue reading
Into The Portal
In this podcast, we hear excerpts from No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, which consists of excerpts and connections to social media and current events.
Podcast on Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This
Click here to listen to this great podcast: https://suffield-my.sharepoint.com/personal/22jl_suffieldacademy_org/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2F22jl%5Fsuffieldacademy%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FMicrosoft%20Teams%20Chat%20Files%2FENG4H%20NOITAT%20Podcast%20%2D%203%5F1%5F22%2C%2012%2E07%20AM%2Ewav&parent=%2Fpersonal%2F22jl%5Fsuffieldacademy%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FMicrosoft%20Teams%20Chat%20Files Produced by Jina and Kennedy.
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Leveraging this year’s Booker Prize Short List for #PBL
How can we measure student growth over four years in a department’s curriculum? How can we create a capstone assessment at the top of a 9-12 vertical design? How can we ask students to figure out what makes a novel … Continue reading
Appreciating Our Literature Circles aka #LitCircles
How can we measure growth or create a capstone assessment at the top of a vertical design? What makes a novel literary? How do we locate a novel’s literary qualities? How can a project encourage opportunities for life-long reading? How … Continue reading
How can we apply an interdisciplinary approach to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
We will return to the “In Our Time” podcast to open our unit on “The Modern Era.” This particular podcast will help us appreciate Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and promises to be quite a podcast. It has been noted to be … Continue reading
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What Will You Create for the Sonnet Project?
This sonnet project will be a great learning opportunity for you to express your understanding of Shakespeare’s language and content as well as how it might illuminate something of our humanity today. While I have been giving time lengths for … Continue reading
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Digital Shakespeare, Shakespeare, YouTube
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Let’s Celebrate Divergent Thinking!
Do you see how one thing these two thinkers have in common about explaining divergent thinking involves school? With that in mind, let’s leave behind your school brain and enjoy this moment to foster a new cognitive skill that helps … Continue reading
Let’s Have Each Student Design a Project in our British Literature Survey
What is project-based learning? Let’s start by celebrating this diagram that will explain our instructional goals during this creative and meaningful learning process. After deliberate reflection, the way for us to enter into this great mode of learning is for … Continue reading
Aiming for a Learner-Driven Classroom
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