Below, exercises that ask students to learn new vocabulary words
(and understand how words get in dictionaries in the first
place); argue their positions on an issue currently roiling some
college campuses; and write short fiction that incorporates what
they have read in science class. This week, all three prompts
focus on the common theme of life on a coastline — a topic of
great importance to our classroom collaborators, who recently
went through weeks of disruption because of Hurricane Sandy.
Even if you live nowhere near a coast, however, we hope you can
find something here that interests your students, whether
investigating the notion of “home,” learning about what life is
like for those who are still refugees from the 2011 tsunami and
nuclear disaster in Japan, or reading about a dispute between
the United States and Canada. Read more… This week, the
teachers, Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, and their ninth
graders were just as taken with Dining critic Pete Wells’s
review of Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar