Greetings again from Gunn High School! Today was our kick-off for Not in Our Schools Week, and we had a very successful kick-off event in the quad at lunch, not to mention a huge number of students wearing the “We’re All in it Together” T-shirts that we handed out last week. The vibe on campus was great today, accentuated by the first sunny day in a few weeks. Today was also the day for English and World Language teachers to do a lesson revolving around NIOS ideas. In my English classes today, I used the “What Would You Do" videos as a way to start a discussion about why people choose to intervene or not, an idea that can be applied to both the books my students are reading (Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying). Daisy Renazco and I had created a lesson plan that can be used for most of the “What Would You Do” videos, which helped quite a bit in framing the discussion because it got students to think about what they would do in the situations they watch. Read more...
Greetings again from Gunn High School! Today was our kick-off for Not in Our Schools Week, and we had a very successful kick-off event in the quad at lunch, not to mention a huge number of students wearing the “We’re All in it Together” T-shirts that we handed out last week. The vibe on campus was great today, accentuated by the first sunny day in a few weeks. Today was also the day for English and World Language teachers to do a lesson revolving around NIOS ideas. In my English classes today, I used the “What Would You Do" videos as a way to start a discussion about why people choose to intervene or not, an idea that can be applied to both the books my students are reading (Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying). Daisy Renazco and I had created a lesson plan that can be used for most of the “What Would You Do” videos, which helped quite a bit in framing the discussion because it got students to think about what they would do in the situations they watch. Read more...