Tag: Knowledge

Building Knowledge

CCSS-ELA Shift 3 states that students need to be, “building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.”  Is this shift making a case for an integrated approach to teaching?  It sure seems like it. I mean, in a Science or History classroom using content-rich nonfiction to have students learn Science and History makes sense. Using fiction in those …

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Billy Jack and the Freedom School

Okay, I’m a Billy Jack fan. And after being drawn to watching his movies again I found them even more cool than when I first watched them as a kid. I remembered the martial arts and butt kicking Billy Jack did and I too felt the passion of Billy Jack at seeing such hatred over …

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