The 10 Best Things We’ve Done This Year Ereka Botkin Angela Szakasits NAGC November 2010
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The 10 Best Things We’ve Done This Year
Ereka Botkin
Angela Szakasits
NAGC November 2010
http://10bestthings.wikispaces.com/
Our story
• Topsail Middle School• Schedule• Cluster grouping• Collaborative planning• “Our kids, not your kids”• “Letting go of control”• “Bake the cupcake before you add the
sprinkles.”• “Be a problem solver.”
Photoessays• How we plan
• Quotes for discussion seminar– How we do discussion seminars
• Poignant photographs
• Tips for photoessays
• Assignment
• Rubric
• Samples
Online book discussions
• Used wiki discussion tab
• Summer reading extra credit– http://6thgradetms.wikispaces.com/message/li
st/home
– Plan B– Plan B comments
Journey Through Time
• Historian Project• Interview• Research skills
– Paraphrasing– Citations– Note-taking– Writing a research paper
• Wiki with research for decade– http://6thgradetms.wikispaces.com/60's-+MB,+JH,+B
R,+and+JR
– Plan B• Blogs for decades
Civil Rights Movement
• Novels
• Literature Circles– How we do literature circles
• Seminars
• Wiki for investigative questions– http://6thgradetms.wikispaces.com/ – Plan B
Community Service Project
• Crash
• Pay It Forward
• 5-10 hours in the community
• Journals
• Oral presentation
• Family Day
Poetry
• Greatest American Poet Contest– Commercials– Propaganda and persuasive language– Voting– Director cards
• Electronic poetry books– Original poems– Analysis of poems
Shakespeare
• Quotes for discussion
• Shakespearean Times
• Romeo and Juliet
• Drama analysis
• Application of figurative language
• Become a playwright
Wikis• Literary Terms
– http://6thgradetms.pbworks.com/Literary+Terms – Plan B
• Journey Through Time– http://6thgradetms.wikispaces.com/
Journey+Through+Time – Plan B
• Civil Rights Movement– http://6thgradetms.wikispaces.com/ – http://6thgradetms.pbworks.com/Civil-Rights-
Movement – Plan B– Plan B
• Poetry projects– http://6thgradetms.pbworks.com/Poetry-Projects – Plan B
Embrace your giftedness. Ask questions.
• Ereka Botkin
• Angela Szakasits
http://10bestthings.wikispaces.com/