Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There: Part Three | huffenglish.com
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In my previous posts, I shared how my teaching partner James and I prepare students for reading There There and how we teach the novel’s Prologue. In this post and subsequent posts in this series, I will not share day-to-day lesson plans; rather, I will share some resources that James and I have used. Our class is discussion-based, and if you are looking for discussion ideas, you might want to check out…
With administrators continuing to be on the edge of their seats, to see whether there will be a surge in teacher migration come August, Dr Nigel Clarke, minister of finance and the public service, has reiterated that Jamaica spends the second highest on education among Caribbean territories.
While speaking at the closing ceremony for the week-long Caribbean Union of Teachers’ (CUT) 41st Biennial Conference, which was held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Friday, Clarke referred to the World Bank’s and UNICEF’s Public Expenditure Review of the Education Sector in Jamaica 2021, which stated that in 2019 education in Jamaica…
Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There: Part Two | huffenglish.com
In my previous post, I discussed how my teaching partner James and I approach pre-teaching or setting the context forTommy Orange’s novel There There.
The Prologue introduces readers to a lot of history that many of them might not know. James and I decided that this year, we wanted students to unpack the Prologue and generate the questions, so we used Marisa Thompson’s Thoughts/Questions/Epiphanies method (see this blog post) so students could generate discussion questions. Here is a screengrab of the slide deck I used with prompts for the students.
Tommy…
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