Bryce asked Blaine the following question: Blaine – There is a thread on benslavic.com (blog) about staying in English and comprehensible input right now. I started it off with a quote that I have heard

I took the following from a couple of comments I made on the blog today about the entire discussion about how backwards design may fit with student generated stories (Michele calls them skeleton stories), and

I have a first period student whose year has been very hard, as only ninth grade can be, and who has caused me some real stress. I have been talking with mom a lot, and