ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryIn both the mid-term and final portfolios, students write reflective pieces about the contents of their portfolios. I was surprised by the number of students who said they had never had an opportunity to write on their own topics. I really enjoyed the self-directed writing portion of the class. I have never had a class […]
1. Incongruity, Irony, Paradox, Oxymoron Incongruity, irony, paradox, and oxymoron are related concepts in which contradictory ideas are stated for a variety of purposes. Incongruity occurs when an author surprises readers by doing the opposite of what one would expect. Because Rowling creates exotic and strange names for most of her characters, including for many […]
Once everyone has been sorted, a prefect for each house must be assigned or elected. At Hogwarts, prefects are chosen by the faculty and are usually students who have exhibited exceptional grades and a mature sense of responsibility. If you are appointing the prefects, you might want to go through some kind of a process—maybe […]
What Peter calls Structured Process is not so much a discrete practice as it is a group of practices that appear in conjunction with each other and the belief that nearly all students can learn, a paradigm of teaching that is quite complex. Three decades of helping my Chicago students learn even one part of […]
We can trace the impact of such instruction into students’ independent reading of challenging academic materials. A few days later, Terrance reads a press release on a recent First Amendment case while being interviewed about his reading process and comprehension of the text. To begin, he scans the text and responds to the interviewer’s question, […]
