Busy day. Gettysburg has been put in the incubator. I just had to work on something else. So I finished redoing and marking up Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel’s Night, a 9-12 lesson plan that uses reciprocal teaching.

The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox focuses on nonfiction, in celebration of Teen Read Week. Even though the topic was inspired by the teen event, it was one of the nice focuses that worked nicely for all teaching levels.

The highlight of the day, though, was probably a very nice response to last week’s Ideas section from the President of NCTE’s Gay Straight Education Association. The supportive letters are so much better.

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