The 10 Best Things We’ve Done This Year Ereka Botkin Angela Szakasits NAGC November 2010

The 10 Best Things We’ve Done This Year

Ereka Botkin

Angela Szakasits

NAGC November 2010

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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

Blogs instead of journalshttp://tmspcs.sharpschool.com/blog/One.aspx?portalId=5950736

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

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• Angela Szakasits

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