Michele Luck, Author at A Lesson Plan for Teachers

Quick Thought Thursday: Passing the Teaching Test

Posted on January 29, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

In the secondary setting, we are often left to our own vices in our classrooms until the end of January. It is then we start hearing more and more about year end assessments and state mandates for student success. Our...Read More

Tuesday Travels: Underwater Exploration

Posted on January 27, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As we moved up the California coast last year, Steve was insistent on spending a few days in Monterey. He had been in the area while in the Navy 20 years earlier, and he desperately wanted to visit some of...Read More

Monday Mapping: Planning the Previews

Posted on January 26, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

The older I get, the less I am interested in reading things I do not consider relevant to my life. I LOVE reading, but I do not like wasting my time, and much of what is produced these days is...Read More

Quick Thought Thursday: A Hot Tub Conversation on American Education

Posted on January 22, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

When you are living life on the road in a motorhome, the one thing you do not have is a bath tub, and the shower just doesn't do the trick for sore muscles after spending the day out on my...Read More

Tuesday Travels: Sand in My Toes

Posted on January 20, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

About this time last year, we headed west. It was not our first time visiting the West Coast, but this was our first time spending such a large amount of time in the Pacific Time Zone and being able to...Read More

Monday Mapping: Making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Significant

Posted on January 19, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Celebrating holidays with students can be a tricky task. When the holiday is dedicated to someone who led a movement, and died as a result of his activism, what tone should be set for the day? More importantly, MLK's role...Read More

Quick Thought Thursday: Scavenger Hunt Bonus

Posted on January 15, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

I have never been one to offer random bonus points to my students. Assignments were always valuable in my eyes, and I did not want to dismiss any lesson for the sake of a boost. However, I recently had a...Read More

Out of the Deep Freeze: My D.C. Inspiration

Posted on January 14, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

On our most recent trip to Washington, D.C. we spent a great deal of time walking around the monuments. While I had visited most of the monuments before, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was new to me, and as...Read More

Tuesday Travels: Home, Sweet Home Ohio

Posted on January 13, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

I was born and raised in Southern Ohio in the suburbs of Cincinnati. By no means am I a city girl; I was raised playing in cornfields, investigating creek beds, fishing on river banks, and visiting neighbors along my street. ...Read More

Monday Mapping: Mapping Out Informational Texts

Posted on January 12, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Students in upper levels are now required to read informational texts as part of state and national standards, yet many have never been taught the foundational standards for understanding those resources. With the new semester just beginning, start with a...Read More