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Hello out there.

I am a Languange Arts teacher who has been trying to keep her head above water! Can anyone help?

I teach multiple grades, 8 through 12th. I am in a small charter school and was just hired before the Christmas break. My principal came to me and said that the school's philosophy is that each grade level be reading a variety of novels at the same time, for example, I have a lot of split classes so the 9th graders would have to have material for 3 novels and they rotate which one they read, and so on.

Here is my problem: my head will explode. If I have to do three novels per gradelevel all at the same time. I don't know what to do about this, as this is unfamiliar territory and right now I have all the highschoolers reading a particular novel and the middle schoolers doing another. Did I mention that half of my upperclassmen are low level readers and that I just had to teach them capitalization? And on top of that, I haven't taught much high sc...See More
suzy just said a prayer for you and i am not kidding. it is very nice that the principal wants this...however, you just came on board and can't just push a button and make it happen. do the best you can and congratulate yourself for doing so. i hope someone out there can suggest novels for you who has had experience at the high school level. is there a ...See More
Jan 18, 2009
Emily Meg,

Are you familiar with Literature Circles? Google it and see if some of the ideas make sense for your situation. Basically, it has students reading different novels that are connected by a theme (ex. friendship). Each group is reading a novel that is appropriate for their reading level. The students are responsible for reding independe...See More
Jan 18, 2009
suzy great suggestion! there is hope!!

On 1/18/09, Emily wrote: > Meg, > > Are you familiar with Literature Circles? Google it and see if > some of the ideas make sense for your situation. Basically, it > has students reading different novels that are connected by a > theme (ex. friendship). Each group is reading a novel that ...See More
Jan 19, 2009
Meg Thank you so much for the AWESOME advice! I will look up those sites and see what I can do....thanks for the prayers!

On 1/19/09, suzy wrote: > > great suggestion! there is hope!! > > > On 1/18/09, Emily wrote: >> Meg, >> >> Are you familiar with Literature Circles? Google it and see if >> some of th...See More
Jan 20, 2009


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