Speaking and writing in the target language are two fundamental goals of the World Languages Department. To that end, our 5th grade Spanish students maintain a class blog (hosted by MICDS and powered by WordPress MU) where they can showcase their language skills. For their first exercise, each student posted a letter that included an [...]
A few weeks ago, a delightful likeness of Flat Stanley arrived in my mailbox courtesy of my friend’s daughter Emma. In her letter, Emma asked that I take some photos of her flat self so that she could add my location to their classroom’s Flat Stanley map. Only too happy to oblige, Stanley traveled with [...]
Whether you regard them as comic books or graphic novels, “sequential art” has emerged as a popular and powerful method for engaging students. Although in education circles this medium is typically associated with language arts and viewed as a literary genre and/or strategy for enticing reluctant readers, a recent presentation by noted Marvel Comics artist [...]
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