"Where is the Love?" Bullying Unit 25% Off Sale!

As a thank you to all of you for entering the giveaway that ended yesterday, here's a 25% sale on the bullying unit! It begins Monday, February 22 and ends Friday, February 26. Don't miss out on your opportunity to purchase this for $15 instead of $20! 

Why host this sale?
Since February is the month of love I thought it'd be a perfect time to help a classroom create a community of learners. Although Valentine's Day has come and gone it is never to late to teach students how to prevent bullying. This unit was specifically designed with secondary students in mind, to reach into their heart, and change how they treat one another. It proved successful in my classroom year after year and I cannot wait to share it with others!

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It's a GIVEAWAY!

Starting today and running until Friday the 19th I am giving away my 2 week unit on bullying!

Since February is the month of love I thought it'd be a perfect time to help a classroom create a community of learners. Although Valentine's Day has come and gone it is never to late to teach students how to prevent bullying. This unit was specifically designed with secondary students in mind, to reach into their heart, and change how they treat one another. It proved successful in my classroom year after year and I cannot wait to share it with someone else!

It begins with activities to help them connect to victims of bullying and over the course of 2 weeks they learn the different types of bullying and how to help a victim or what to do if they become a victim through role playing, journaling, media motivators, survey's, reading and discussing, games, a project and finally creating a committee.

Follow this link to enter for your chance to win!

Check out my TeachersNotebook shop to get a sneak peak at all that you'll get in this giveaway or visit the blog post that describes this product in a bit more detail.

What are you working on? I haven't seen ya in a while!

Well, my current project is a large one. One of my favorite books to read with my 8th graders was "October Sky" by Homer Hickam. It's a 27 chapter book (epilogue included), 428 pages, jam packed with a whole lot of goodness. Homer Hickam tells his story of growing up in a coal mining town, becoming obsessed with the space race, and how he decided to join it. He embodies hard work, determination, and perseverance. If you want something bad enough, you have to work your butt off to get it.

Not only is the message behind this book a great one for our youth, but the story line is heart breaking, hilarious, and easily relatable. It's a fun one to teach.

So what am I working on?

After using this book for 5 years it has seen better days!

A teacher packet including vocabulary lessons for each chapter, chapter comprehension questions, journaling/discussion suggestions for each chapter, a research project/presentation, & vocabulary instruction - all focused on a student's ability to use their background knowledge to aid in comprehension (research project), context clues (vocabulary), and illustrating their understanding of the text, making connections, comparing and contrasting (book to movie).

This book took approximately 9 weeks to finish and was totally worth every minute. Now if only I could convince myself of that as I try and compile all my work into one document. ;)

Stay tuned because this is, in my opinion, worth the wait.