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Marzano Strategies: Similarities & Differences, Homework & Practice, Generating & Testing Hypotheses, and Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers

Lesson: Moodle and Causes of Civil War I created this lesson on using the online discussion board Moodle and the causes of the Civil War partly from a SPU class and partly on my own. The Issues and Advances in … Continue reading

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Marzano Strategies: Summarizing & Note Taking, Setting Objectives & Providing Feeback

Lesson: Minoans/Myceneans & Myth This lesson plan regarding the Minoans/Myceneans and the myth allows students to meet the standards S and T in many ways. While a colleague of mine created the original paragraph assignment, I adapted it to be … Continue reading

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Marzano Strategies: Reinforcing effort and providing recognition, nonlinguistic representations and cooperative learning

Lesson: Allegory of the Cave The Allegory of the Cave assignment originated a few years ago by another history teacher at Seattle Prep. Through meeting with him and discussing the assignment a couple years ago, I decided it would be … Continue reading

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Balancing It All (Week 3)

The third full week of school is now complete and I am tired. The students, for the most part, are engaged and fantastic to teach. I love working with my colleagues, the school environment is fantastic, and I look forward … Continue reading

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First Couple Days

My first day back at school arrived with a flurry of in-service activity last Tuesday, August 25th. That, and the following day, provided an abundance of administrative details that are necessary for teachers to do their jobs successfully all year … Continue reading

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