Tag Archives: High School

Project Based Learning – Whalen

Global Poetry Unit                                        This will be a project I’d implement after my global poetry unit.  In this unit we do a … Continue reading

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Cooperative Learning – Whalen

Idea 1- Team Building Activity for The House on Mango Street This unit will be the first unit of the school year.  The novel revolves around a coming of age story, with the female protagonist facing many challenges and decisions … Continue reading

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Concept-Based Curriculum – Whalen

Idea 1 – WW2: The Perils of Indifference This will be used for my unit on the novel All the Light We Cannot See.  It will focus on how different  perspectives impacted the dynamic of WWII, and how the indifference … Continue reading

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MTV Strategies – Whalen

This blog contains 2 lesson plans for an English II Honors class.  I decided to use the Headlines and Circle of Viewpoints MTV strategies for my Lord of the Flies unit and my All the Light We Cannot See unit, … Continue reading

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CBCI Lesson Plan – Heller

Unit Title: Linear Relationships: What will happen next? Subject: Algebra I  Lesson Opening: You’ve already learned all of the building blocks of linear functions. We’ve worked with at least three different ways to represent linear relationships and have a strong understanding … Continue reading

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MTV Strategy Based Lesson Plans_Heller

This blog post contains two lesson plans intended for Algebra I classrooms. The lessons can be adapted for similar topics in pre-algebra or Algebra II with moderate alterations. The two thinking strategies that I chose to highlight are the See-Think-Wonder … Continue reading

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