AP English: What I want you to know
This is, in part, a response to te@chthought's Reflective Teaching 30-Day Blogging Challenge (which I am beginning somewhat belatedly, and probably won't manage to do consecutively). The first topic: "Write your goals for the year. Be as specific or abstract as you'd like to be." I shared this in person with the real intended audience. To my students: Every year around April, I start thinking about how I am going to do things differently the next year. Some things stay the same - there have been blogs and journals and OPs for about a decade now, but every year - sometimes every marking period - they get tweaked a bit. I try to live out Maya Angelou’s words “When you know better, you do better.” So starting in April, and then through May, and June, and July I thought about what it is that I want you to walk away with when you leave 235 at the end of this year. I thought back over my own education, and the teachers who had an impact on me. ...