‘Lesson Plans’ Archives
Dope Lessons for Urban Students: Figurative Language BATTLE
You are about to witness high schools students battling. But don't worry, it won't be them actually punching each other in the throat, like what you can find on YouTube simply by searching the name of your high school followed by the word "fights." [...]
Teach4Real’s Big Announcement
I'm back and I have something special!I took the summer off of blogging, but have still kept very, very busy. Aside from teaching at UC Berkeley, and learning how to raise a 5 month old, I have put together a soon to be LEGENDARY House on Mango [...]
Lesson Plan: Using Facebook Profiles for Character Analysis
If Romeo Montague had a Facebook profile, who would the last four posts be from? Well, all of them might be from Juliet, saying things like, “It’s been five minutes since my last post and I still miss u <3!” Or perhaps Friar Laurence will [...]
Lesson Plan: Student Identity and Music
A few weeks ago I wrote about a senior workshop I gave about Identity. I wanted to get a group of college-going seniors to think about who they are as urban youth, and how it will affect the way they interact with others on a college campus. The [...]
A Lesson on Urban Identity
I taught a seminar for seniors this week while their regular teacher was out having babies. It was a class full of low-income urban students trying to get into college. I decided to do three days on Identity, and get them thinking about who they are [...]
Getting GHETTO Kids to Write Essays
LESSON PLAN: Writing Body ParagraphsAs I’ve said before in my blog, I teach a class of 9th graders who are reading at about a 5th and 6th grade level. A high percentage of them are Special-Ed students, and most of them are GHETTO in [...]
Back-Pocket Poetry
Looking back on the year so far, I’ve decided to write about some of the best lessons I’ve done in the hopes it will give you ideas you can use in your own classrooms. I’ve made a category for it called “Lesson Plans.” My plan is to fill [...]