Pat’s Polemics

I haven’t posted my lessons for a while and will back up and do so soon. Today we had another short-period day (3 this week! (Continue Reading)

I dropped off a bit in reporting my daily activities. The death of one of my students disrupted some of the activities, but generally we (Continue Reading)

Frequently, our listservs for fl teachers contain laments over the outbursts of students with little emotional control. I thought my log today should be about (Continue Reading)

During Spring Break, my picture files have been the target of my efforts. For a brief explanation: I have hundreds and hundreds of pictures, most (Continue Reading)

This was a learning log from a 3rd year student. She is referencing a story we had read: “I enjoyed answering the question about the (Continue Reading)

We have done a sketch of 3 connected stories using the format I’ve described before. Now we are turning in one such sketch of all (Continue Reading)

My 4 y.o; grandson said, “You almost made me fell.” My 7 y.o. granddaughter corrected him by saying, “Fall, Logan, it’s you made me fall.” (Continue Reading)

We tested yesterday over their ability to read a brand new story and extract information from it and analyze it (characters, setting, plot, events, etc.). (Continue Reading)

The last two days, we have gone over the two formats I gave them and then combined for analyzing a story. All classes read one (Continue Reading)

Having come home early to check on my wife, who had just had surgery, I satisfied myself as to her well-being and comfort and settled (Continue Reading)

OK, so here’s the next one. Last semester I gave the students a template to use in sketching out the elements of any story we (Continue Reading)

Yesterday I started with simple questions to write a story. Where are we? Who’s there and what are their names? What are they doing? Why (Continue Reading)