tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718514650634739931.post3109831592522392886..comments2023-08-29T11:00:10.512-04:00Comments on Mr. B-G's Blog: Blogging with studentsMr. B-Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628569059610320379noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718514650634739931.post-39268548615346570342007-08-22T22:00:00.000-04:002007-08-22T22:00:00.000-04:00Except for Macbeth, your seniors are very well ali...Except for Macbeth, your seniors are very well aligned with my sophomores. I decided to do Shrew with my seniors this year since the local Rep is doing a production in Nov. My seniors are doing Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Pride & Prej., A Tale of Two Cities, Heart of Darkness, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Mrs. Dalloway, and Ceremony. I'll let you know if I come with something.<BR/><BR/>I'd vote for second-rate education with a smattering of bias. Bias might be a problem, but I wouldn't think large enough to cause that big a discrepancy. We have a local teacher's college that enrolls nearly all minority, and their graduates have a terrible time passing the state exams -- and the English teachers I've seen come out of the program are horror shows (but they get jobs in the urban districts). I'll bet if they looked at the data by university, they might see a different pattern.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10922244604362491254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718514650634739931.post-19585709375014692822007-08-21T23:14:00.000-04:002007-08-21T23:14:00.000-04:00Rita,My seniors read Siddhartha, Oedipus, Macbeth,...Rita,<BR/><BR/>My seniors read Siddhartha, Oedipus, Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, and 1984, in addition to a variety of short stories, non-fiction, and poetry.<BR/><BR/>Let me know if we have any overlap, and if you decide to give blogging a try.<BR/><BR/>As for the teacher test, I passed the tests on the first try (Communication and Literacy and the 8-12 English subject matter test), although there are a number of people who don't.<BR/><BR/>The passing rate for minorities is substantially lower than the rate for whites, which leads one to believe that either the tests are biased, or the minorities who take the tests are receiving second-rate educations.<BR/><BR/>It's definitely eye-opening and alarming.Mr. B-Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00628569059610320379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718514650634739931.post-51583640624396845522007-08-21T22:16:00.000-04:002007-08-21T22:16:00.000-04:00I'd like to try blogging with my seniors this year...I'd like to try blogging with my seniors this year. We have ridiculously limited access to tech in my building, but this group coming in should all have access from home. I wish I could do more with technology, but even the few lesson plans I have I end up cutting due to the dearth of labs. Oh well. I'd be interested in collaborating on a blog if we teach any novels in common.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I read today about the achievement gap in the MA state teacher's test. In MO, we take a couple of tests that I thought were pretty minimal (C-Base and Praxis). Is the MA test that difficult?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10922244604362491254noreply@blogger.com