Don’t Just Paraphrase A Poem! What if, instead, we re-wrote the poem in the style of a different poet?
Remix the Song “Help!” Students took the classic song, Help!, and rewrote it to be about their collective summers.
Creating A Class Motto Using Hilda Taba's model of inductive thinking, use your students' prior knowledge to develop a statement about expected class behavior.
Vocab Puzzle: Antonym Paths Begin with a small, simple word and identify its antonym. Then, take this second word and find its antonym. Many times, you'll find that an antonym of an antonym isn't always related the original word.
Academic Love Letters We're going to take the Academic Valentine idea from earlier, and extend it into a full blown love letter – just in time for Valentine's Day!
How *Not* To Ask Questions About A Novel These "discussion questions" highlight so many of the problems we've been looking at.
Patterns In Writing I: Introduction Take a break from teaching the details of writing and examine narrative writing from a larger perspective. How can structure increase creativity in writing? Take your gifted writers on a journey through common patterns in narrative writing.
Rewriting a Sentence With Different Coordinating Conjunctions The first unit in our writing program was always teaching the coordinating conjunctions. It always felt goofy teaching this to 6th graders - especially a gifted magnet class. I mean... do they really not know the difference between "and" and "but"?
Exploring Morality Behind Actions No one can deny that our gifted students have great power. They may be intellectual powerhouses, grasping concepts years ahead of peers. They may be emotionally sensitive, becoming aware of issues such as mortality at an early age. They may be leaders of people, showing leadership qualities from the very beginning. How do we teach them to use this power?
