I'd Like To Apologize To Every Teacher I Ever Had (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Our new academic focus, the five-paragraph essay, is alien territory for most of the class. They’re intimidated by writing to begin with, and they can’t understand why anyone would need a thesis statement or topic sentence. At times during this unit, we’d all rather be digging ditches, and to add to the stress, Emmanuel and Monte are prepping for statewide debate club tournament finals. Also, a big home basketball game is looming. Three days after we come back I give the class a do-now to write a short story using six of these vocabulary words: arrogant, mollified, anguished, complacently, ominously, metaphor, hyperbole, hero, ironic, imagery, formidable. These words were in a story we read before Christmas. I want to see how much they remember and get them thinking before we press ahead. Multiple reading levels within a class are a challenge that every teacher faces. Everyone learns differently, and my class of tenth graders includes a few who started the year at a third-grade reading level.
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