We read a plethora of text types in 7th grade English from news articles, Greek myths, and poems. I met with students one-on-one to talk about where they think their strengths and weakness were in the narratives they wrote. It is incredibly tricky to get students to revise their writing once they've decided they are “done”. Conferences sometimes help with that. They created covers for their narratives; now if I could just find the time to publish all of their stories in a book! Students used Google Draw to create a unique cover for their narratives. In Speech, we took a break from delivering speeches to analyze some famous speeches. The students did a great job selecting some modern and historically significant speeches. They looked at speeches by Emma Watson, Sir Ken Robinson, John F. Kennedy, Kevin Durant, and several more. We most recently started brainstorming ideas for the next speech--an informative speech. I tried a different approach when introducing this speech this