Post #8

Wow...our days are coming to an end in this class! However, Marzano will always live in my mind :) I have discussed so many ways that we have used Marzano in my 10th grade class at Huntington High School...but Im going to talk about our use of "Similarities and Differences" as a teaching strategy. Fortunately, at this point in the year, my students have done alot of reading. We just finished up a discussion on Dystopia and Utopia. To do this, we compared a couple of pieces of literature that the students had read in the class previously. We used Milton's Paradise Lost, Harrison Bergeron, and the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible to compare different descriptions of what their authors believed to be Utopia's. By drawing on the similarities and differences of the stories, students could use their discoveries to create their own ideas of Utopias. It was a great creative writing excitement and the students really had fun with it!