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Thanks @rgrondin.bsky.social for spending time with my classes last week! Students enjoyed learning with Ms G!

I am grateful for your friendship, feedback, and collaboration!

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June 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
aledaklassen.bsky.social
This was an encouraging email to receive this weekend!

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April 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
aledaklassen.bsky.social
Thank you @mrshackett305.bsky.social for inspiring this @btcthinks.bsky.social lesson for #ENG2D.

I think exploring others' essay openings for how they engage readers helped inspire Ss' creative & personal writing.

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@pgliljedahl.bsky.social
Taking a Sorting and Mentor Text Approach to Opening Essays
For our personal essay writing part of the Grade 10 English course, we introduced openings to different essays to help inspire different kinds of writing. In the fall of 2024, Casey Hackett shared …
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April 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
aledaklassen.bsky.social
I've been taking a @btcthinks.bsky.social approach to teaching English this year.

Here's a task we did to uncover informal essay writing processes and thinking:

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Thinking about the Thinking behind Informal Essay Writing
I recently learned about the New York Times’ series, “Annotated by the Author,” from a colleague at another school. In the series, writers share the thinking and approaches they t…
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April 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
aledaklassen.bsky.social
Here's an activity we did to prep for the #OSSLT's series of opinion paragraphs. The same activity could be used for any writing task.

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Prepping for the OSSLT: BTC Style
For some reason, this year, a year when I’m back in the classroom after a two year stint as a consultant with the WRDSB, I’ve elected to teach the two grades that also have EQAO testing…
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April 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM