As an almost-certified teacher going into her first year of teaching (8th ELA!), it was so incredibly helpful to watch you talk through each of your units and how you structured your curriculum throughout the year. Thank you so much for doing this video!!
I am a first year middle school teacher in CA, teaching 8th grade ELA. This video was a treasure trove. We use HMH collections at my school too. I want to fit in the Dear Evan Hansen unit at some point. Thank you for all of your videos! They are making a difference in my career.
Megan! Thank you so much for making this video! I am going into my first year of teaching (6th grade SS and 7th grade ELA and SS) and this was sooooo helpful. I've been watching your channel since I was in college and you have given me so many ideas to bring into the classroom as well as ideas about how to plan. Can't thank you enough! xx
I'm amazed you cover so much! I want to try and plan a very relaxed year in terms of homework and in literature, because I feel it's becoming too much for students and for me
Would love to be able to plan ahead. For some reason, I was chosen to be the overflow teacher, so I never know what I’m teaching- grades/ subjects until first week.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I am a college student and it is so helpful to see the whole year like this at a glance. I love lesson planning videos!
Hi! I’m from Texas so we have TEKS which are our standards. Would you be able to show how you align your lesson plans with your state standards just so I can visually see your process before even completing the lesson plan? Or does your district provide you with the curriculum aligned already in advance?
I’m sooooo so glad I’m not the only person who forgets what the details were from the previous year. Love the idea of doing this review of yearly plans. Thanks so much for taking the time to do it for your fellow teachers. 🙏🏻
The one-pagers are beautiful! I'm going to do one-pagers with my 8th graders after we finish reading about the Civil War in September. Can't wait to see how they turn out! This was so helpful!
I love what you said about not having a singular voice represent one group of people. We start Pre-AP 10 with a unit on identity. I try to pull diverse texts (I teach in a predominantly white area of Arkansas.) Sometimes if my students haven’t heard about a culture, once they read a piece, they assume the experience applies to all. How long do you spent on these short texts?
Love these videos! PLEASE do an 8th grade US History year of lessons! I know you haven't taught it in a couple of years, but maybe from the last time you taught it? It would be SO helpful!! As always, thank you for the awesome content ❤
This is incredibly helpful. I’m starting my second year but because of some unique circumstances, it feels like the first. Grammar, vocab, and writing instruction are the hardest for me to pin down and feel comfortable with. I’m curious about your one-chunk paragraphs. Without luck, I tried searching for another place where you may have explained these more. Any details you can share?
This definitely felt like a teaching history video 😂 I appreciate it but it felt very much like history. So many articles and history feel dives. I do think history and English are very much connected, but you go next level
I'm watching videos as an assignment, but I am keeping a log of the best so I can go back and view them again as I face particular issues or teach certain lessons.
Thank you for doing this video - I’ve been looking forward to it! I’m not finished watching it yet, but I was wondering what is the SRI test that you use to assess their lexile levels? Is that a free resource?
Stopped the video when you introduced a communist teaching book. Social justice warriors are nothing more than Marxists masquerading as holier than thou communists. Communism only works when the heart and mind is truly good and man today is anything but. Also that is a social studies topic not an English language usage topic. 8th grade English is language usage form and function topic and not for social studies. Read a book and interpret its meaning is a 1st year high school topic. 8th grade children are still learning how to use punctuation and grammar structure. Things may have changed since I was in grammar school (1975) but not that much, I would think.
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As an almost-certified teacher going into her first year of teaching (8th ELA!), it was so incredibly helpful to watch you talk through each of your units and how you structured your curriculum throughout the year. Thank you so much for doing this video!!
I am a first year middle school teacher in CA, teaching 8th grade ELA. This video was a treasure trove. We use HMH collections at my school too. I want to fit in the Dear Evan Hansen unit at some point. Thank you for all of your videos! They are making a difference in my career.
Megan! Thank you so much for making this video! I am going into my first year of teaching (6th grade SS and 7th grade ELA and SS) and this was sooooo helpful. I've been watching your channel since I was in college and you have given me so many ideas to bring into the classroom as well as ideas about how to plan. Can't thank you enough! xx
I teach 5th grade Math and Science, but I watched every minute of this! Haha! I find what teachers teach so interesting!
Me too, I always want to know!
Love how you do visual and audio learners and hands on that is amazing.
This video was SO helpful to me! Thank you so much for taking the time to share it. Also, at 24:40. "This is Me"
I'm amazed you cover so much! I want to try and plan a very relaxed year in terms of homework and in literature, because I feel it's becoming too much for students and for me
Would love to be able to plan ahead. For some reason, I was chosen to be the overflow teacher, so I never know what I’m teaching- grades/ subjects until first week.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I am a college student and it is so helpful to see the whole year like this at a glance. I love lesson planning videos!
Cheyenne Moore Great minds think a like
Hi! I’m from Texas so we have TEKS which are our standards. Would you be able to show how you align your lesson plans with your state standards just so I can visually see your process before even completing the lesson plan? Or does your district provide you with the curriculum aligned already in advance?
Celeste Rangel our curriculum is already aligned but I’m planning to do some standards videos soon!
I’m sooooo so glad I’m not the only person who forgets what the details were from the previous year.
Love the idea of doing this review of yearly plans. Thanks so much for taking the time to do it for your fellow teachers. 🙏🏻
You're so welcome! :)
I hope you recorded the survior coming in. They are dying and we need to preserve their stories! So cool you did that for them
The one-pagers are beautiful! I'm going to do one-pagers with my 8th graders after we finish reading about the Civil War in September. Can't wait to see how they turn out! This was so helpful!
These videos are my favorite!! I love seeing what you’re doing.
I love what you said about not having a singular voice represent one group of people. We start Pre-AP 10 with a unit on identity. I try to pull diverse texts (I teach in a predominantly white area of Arkansas.) Sometimes if my students haven’t heard about a culture, once they read a piece, they assume the experience applies to all. How long do you spent on these short texts?
The Hall Pass pow wow at the end of the world. A few days I think?
Love these videos! PLEASE do an 8th grade US History year of lessons! I know you haven't taught it in a couple of years, but maybe from the last time you taught it? It would be SO helpful!! As always, thank you for the awesome content ❤
Alexandra Whitehead I’ll have to dig up my old plans!
Yes, please!!! 🤗
Thank you for this video! These are always so helpful! It's also nice to see how passionate you are about teaching. 💕
This is incredibly helpful. I’m starting my second year but because of some unique circumstances, it feels like the first. Grammar, vocab, and writing instruction are the hardest for me to pin down and feel comfortable with. I’m curious about your one-chunk paragraphs. Without luck, I tried searching for another place where you may have explained these more. Any details you can share?
It's the Jane Shafer method! I should have said that, lol
Do you have a written out year plan I could buy?!
Which HMH Curriculum do you use, I'm looking online at trying to buy a copy, but I wanted to get the "right" one.
Thank you for doing this! It is what I've always wanted to ask for from another teacher!
This is so helpful!!! Thank you so much!
The singing interlude was the best part. ❤️❤️
This definitely felt like a teaching history video 😂 I appreciate it but it felt very much like history. So many articles and history feel dives. I do think history and English are very much connected, but you go next level
thank you for taking the time to do this. it's so hlepful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so so much. So interesting, learned a lot.
Oh my! This was good! 😌 Thank you very much for sharing this with us all and fir explaining it the way you did.
I'm watching videos as an assignment, but I am keeping a log of the best so I can go back and view them again as I face particular issues or teach certain lessons.
I’m finna start middle school dose anyone have advice for me
Thank you for doing this video - I’ve been looking forward to it! I’m not finished watching it yet, but I was wondering what is the SRI test that you use to assess their lexile levels? Is that a free resource?
Ashley Loveless it’s on a program that our district subscribed to 🤗
What’s a social justice teacher? I’ve been out of school for a long time! I don’t remember that as a subject.
Amazing as usual!
I love this! Thank you
Wow!!! ❤❤
Stopped the video when you introduced a communist teaching book. Social justice warriors are nothing more than Marxists masquerading as holier than thou communists. Communism only works when the heart and mind is truly good and man today is anything but. Also that is a social studies topic not an English language usage topic. 8th grade English is language usage form and function topic and not for social studies. Read a book and interpret its meaning is a 1st year high school topic. 8th grade children are still learning how to use punctuation and grammar structure.
Things may have changed since I was in grammar school (1975) but not that much, I would think.