Michele Luck, Author at A Lesson Plan for Teachers

To Text or Not to Text

Posted on July 28, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As the academic world revolutionizes, secondary teachers are finding they have many new options for resources in their classrooms. While many schools and districts are still making the big textbook purchases, others are opening up their instructional funds to the...Read More

Are You Ready for Back to School?

Posted on July 23, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Are you ready to go back to school? It's almost that time again! Time to go back into that classroom, to get things cleaned and organized, and to plan out all the great lessons you will teach in the coming...Read More

Say the Goodbyes You Want to Say!

Posted on May 31, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As the school year comes to a close, we are all often overwhelmed with everything that must be done. We worry about the EOCs, the final exams, the last minute assignments, and all the required data analysis. Sometimes we are...Read More

It’s Coming…

Posted on May 24, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

The last weeks of each school year are always the hardest. There are just so many factors coming into play, making each day its own challenge. The students are antsy, you are thinking about your summer plans, and yet you...Read More

Warn Against the Addiction!

Posted on May 15, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Many of you are coming close to the end of your school year, and that means you will be giving your students all the advice you can muster for their summer free time. Of course, we want them to read...Read More

That Dream Trip

Posted on May 12, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Since I started reading (and actually being read to as a small child) I have imagined visiting the places in my favorites stories or books. The settings always came off the page to me and were so visual in my...Read More

As the Quiet Saves the World

Posted on May 8, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

We often read stories of Anne Frank's being hidden in her neighbor's home to escape Nazi persecution, or we watch movies about Oskar Schindler and how he saved over 1000 Jews by setting up a factory filled with Jewish labor...Read More

National Teacher Day!

Posted on May 6, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Most TEACHERS are TEACHERS because of a significant TEACHER they had in their academic careers! I had three of those significant TEACHERS, and I consider myself very lucky to have been placed in their classrooms and to have learned how...Read More

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo!

Posted on May 3, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

On May 5th, many across the United States of America and in Mexico will be celebrating their heritage. Most Americans misunderstand this celebration, thinking it is Mexico's independence day, just like Americans celebrate every July 4th. Cinco de Mayo is...Read More

Dancing the Maypole or Protesting in the Streets

Posted on April 30, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As a child, I remember celebrating the coming of Spring with our May Day festival. We learned dances, and practiced moving around the "May Pole" (which was actually out tether-ball pole!) with our ribbons in hands and our best Spring...Read More