Linda

I am just experimenting with this. I have read about Wikis and have used blogs and intranet groups instructionally, but this will be an adventure for me.

I have spoken with the literacy special education teacher at Calloway concerning a civil rights history unit that she will be designing this summer. We have some novels (already in the building!) in mind that would fit in with the ends of both the "price of progress" overarching idea and civil rights. "Justice" keeps popping into my mind (but that could be because I'm listening to an audiobook of a Lisa Scottoline novel and justice is a big theme there!) I have brought home several novels that may "fit."

I have also received the mandatory curriculum for ELA, grades 6 through 12, that Red Clay rolled out on June 1st. It will be interesting to see how, if at all, our work of the summer will dovetail with that document. I have also brought home the mandatory anthology. We are now to teach only 1 novel per year and to use the anthology for the remainder of our instructional content.

Finally, I have been catching up on my reading from "Voices from the Middle" and I think I have come across some relevant research.

That's it for me, so far. And this may not be the purpose of a Wiki (does one capitalize that word?), but it may let me see what happens next.