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Table of Contents Branford High School's English 10 Honors Option Overview Expectations and Requirements Grading policy Assessment Units of study The Honors Portfolio Schedule/Timeline Summer Reading External links Overview The Branford High School English 10 curriculum is designed to challenge all students. An Honors Option exists for those students seeking to explore the course concepts and skills in greater depth or breadth. Students who earn the honors distinction in English 10 are expected to meet and exceed the expectations for the standard curriculum in the course, and they must show evidence of extended learning in the subject matter. To this end, honors-level students in English 10 should be able to demonstrate capabilities through more thoughtful literature responses, extended literary analysis, deeper textual connections, self-motivated learning habits, and regular reflective pieces. Table of Contents (categories) Expectations and Requirements English teachers will provide clear expectations for the honors distinction through the use of a rubric, which spells out the requirements for the honors portfolio. In addition, information will be

A place for Jewish educators to discuss issues and share resources and approaches related to teaching Hebrew in Jewish supplementary education.

Joan, what are the features of the Hebrew Project-(what's on the web site) and-how might this help you in your teaching?

There was a great deal of information on the website, but a few specific things from the reading struck me. One is to devote more "time on task" to the Hebrew reading and allow students more time to decode, read to one another, and read to the group. Also, with teaching siddur based Hebrew, students need the opportunity to practice it in real settings, such as an in class tefillah service. Also, it is important for students to practice at home with parents. So, I might provide transliteration of prayers or have parents use an on line program for the prayers, assuming they are not Hebrew readers.

A curriculum for middle and high school students using the work of photographer Zion Ozeri to explore diverse Jewish communities and their traditions. Students then focus on their own communities - documenting their communal values on film and curating on-site exhibits of their work. The project culminates with an exhibition that ties together the work of students from all participating schools. For educators and students, the website provides links to the sites of world Jewish communities, American history, the Talmud, Jews and photography and photography for social change.

Great project by students for students based on the film "Pay It Forward"

Interesting perspective - a more long term arc

This is the wikispace created by students at Temple Chayai Shalom in Easton during their expeditionary learning project on helping people with disabilities. Two of the teachers who helped run this expedition were in Cohort 3 of TTF!

Use of paint chips for building vocab Suggested use: words with same roots

Paper is a lovely program for the iPad that lets you draw with just your finger. The free version has a limited set of colors and only one pen, but it's very soothing to use. You could use it just to capture comments from your students the way you might use index cards.

flipped classroom

Ron Berger is the Chief Program Officer of this organization and this website is chock full of information and student work from project-based learning in a network of schools. Videos of EL core practices can be found at: www.vimeo.com/channels/corepractices

Exploration of prayer

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Storyboard That is a cutting edge Web 2.0 tool for rapidly creating amazing storyboards, no art skills needed. Great for business meetings and in the classroom for students to express their creativity. LL Note: If you want to print out the free version storyboard, it puts a big digital watermark across your pictures. I found a work-around for that: take a screen shot, then edit that picture as you need to. Short term, for small projects, it's workable. If I were going to use this on a regular basis, I'd ask my school to get us a subscription. It calls itself a storyboard program, but it really works much more like a comic strip. But it could be very useful for brainstorming in class. You can make 3 free storyboards a week, which might be enough for many of us. It's really easy to use, and you can customize some of the features with your choice of color.

Great resource for students to understand various concepts of group work such as Brainstorming, Interview Techniques, Building Consensus, etc.

This article provides some suggestions, from a Jewish perspective, about interaction on Facebook by Jewish students.

Case study of an integrated approach to teaching kindergarten students Torah and early literacy skills simultaneously.