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faculty book club
September 2019: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
article of the week
September 23, 2019: “The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America” by Ed Young for The Atlantic
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180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle (Heinemann 2018)
Felipe, one of Kelly's seniors, recites the famous advice scene in Hamlet to the class.
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RT @mattdelapena: This is a lot like my writing process most days. A lot of sentences that don’t quite make it into the bucket. https://t.co/8jLpSzTM8f
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RT @mattdelapena: I’ve read this one on my own. And to my daughter. But the impact it had on college students (many are from a simila… https://t.co/ZNHZ2lYib6
Mass Shooting Unit: Day 12 - "What the teacher did" and "What the students did" on the final day of this 12-day unit