Once I got into genre study, I realized how much I didn’t know about genre. Sure, I knew what genre was, I could list genres, I could email you resources (ready made anchor charts…oops), but I hadn’t thought about how genre differs from form, or noticed that genres belong to certain genre families. Here’s a little cheat sheet I made to demonstrate genre relationships. You can download it for free here. After implanting genre study in my own classroom and designing a year-long genre study curriculum, here’s what I’ve learned about genre: Genre Differs from Form Genre pertains to the content of the text–historical fiction, for example will tell a…
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A Time Management Matrix That Helps You Prioritize Your Long-Term Goals
You know the feeling you get when you’ve been working all week, and then you come up for air and realize you aren’t any closer to achieving your goals? The feeling you get when you’ve spent all weekend grading, then Sunday evening rolls around and you STILL don’t have lesson plans ready for Monday? A feeling of exhaustion without fulfillment or satisfaction? If the answer is yes, then your daily tasks and long-term goals may be misaligned. Sometimes our busyness prevents us from accomplishing our teaching (and life) goals. What’s a busy, burned-out teacher to do? Reflect on her time using the Eisenhower Decision Matrix–or as we’ll call it here,…
