Peer Editing and Grammar

I'm looking for a good website that details how to teach peer editing. I came across a good explanation and she had some checklists that were kind of nice for elementary kids, but a little babyish for high school. The article itself is pretty good and there are some good links on the page, too. http://www.teachnet.org/NTNY/nychelp/manage/peeredit.htm

Here's a pretty good peer editing checklist, if you want to focus on EVERYTHING to do with writing: http://content.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/u/unit_autobio_peercheck.pdf

Here's one of the links that has mini-lessons on different parts of grammar. There's also a reading strategy sheet that you could print for your students. http://dept.kent.edu/english/WritingCent/lessons.html

Of Mice and Men

I have questions and answers by chapter for Of Mice and Men and some essay questions if anyone is interested. One of my former students copied them from the general ed book so there may be some typing mistakes. Send me an email and I can send them to you.

7 Habits

If anyone wants to use the 7 Habits book when they teach Raisin in the Sun, but think the reading level is too high, there is also a kids' version. My son just brought home some coloring pages from the book. It is called The 7 Habits of Happy Kids. My library also has an audio CD of the book.

Huck Finn essay questions

This website has lots of good essay questions that you could use as quick writes or major essays. I'm going to give my kids a list of about 5 questions and let them choose which one they want to write about.
There are also some quiz questions and summaries on the main page.
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/huckfinn/questions.html

The Crucible -web activity

I used this website for background info before starting the book. It has a lesson plan that goes along with it (Learning Activity II).

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/story.html

Huck Finn

This isn't a culminating activity...but a fun way to review story facts. It is an online "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" game (pre-made!)

http://www.quia.com/rr/52205.html

Culminating Activity for Huck Finn?

Is anyone doing Huck Finn first? Found a good culminating activity? We're going to be done with the book in a little over a week. I don't know that my kids can complete the activity that's in the Macomb unit. Wondering if anyone has anything else they've found.
Thanks!

Cool lessons for the novel

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/novels/of_mice_and_men/of_mice_and_men.htm
I found this by accident. It has quite a few ideas. Of course -kimskorner is one of my favorite sites.

Neat slideshow

http://www.slideshare.net/jhersh/crucible-notes

This is an interesting slideshow about The Crucible.

Raisin in the Sun

Looking ahead (way ahead!)...when you get into the material that was given to us for teaching Raisin - it suggests using "The 7 Habbits of Highly Effective Teens". Rather than use the notebook ideas (since I don't have enough students for them to each or groups to teach a Habit!)I found a site that I will use instead. It has lots of activities that I think will be more meaningful to my students...

http://www.gnb.ca/0000/publications/ss/Curriculum2002.pdf

Night

We are currently working on "Night." Two things I have found to use are:

1) A website that has a map of Wiesel's ordeal and pop-up information windows about each location.

http://www.sd84.k12.id.us/SHS/EDTECHQUEST/2002Night/team277-night/map.html




2) A documentary video "Paper Clips." I am planning on using it as an ending to this unit because it is a little more uplifting and positive. It does show an actual boxcar that was used to transport Jews (now is used to store the paper clips as a memorial) and the DVD also includes aditional interviews with Holocaust Survivors telling about what they went through.

From Amazon.com: Product Description
In 1998, a group of Tennessee schoolchildren embarked on a class project that would change their lives and impact those of countless others around the world. Responding to a history lesson about the Holocaust, the students began collecting 11 million paper clips (a Norwegian symbol of Nazi resistance) to commemorate each of the lives lost in the concentration camps. As news of the Paper Clip Project spread through the Internet, the children found themselves aided by total strangers in their effort to build a permanent memorial to tolerance and diversity in their schoolyard. Filmmakers Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab document the project in their documentary, PAPER CLIPS, for a moving testament to Margaret Mead's assertion that "a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."