Student engagement and the Common Core

Middle school teachers in Albuquerque, New Mexico discuss ways to engage their students in a lesson about irony focused on Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.”

Teacher: Ida Demos, Martha Dreskin, Lynne Harper, Deborah Mathen, Maria Padilla-Enyart
Grade: Grade 8
School Name: Harrison Middle School, Van Buren Middle School, Kennedy Middle School, Los Ranchos Elementary School, Jefferson Middle School

'The Story of an Hour': Student engagement and the Common Core

8th-grade teachers discuss ways to engage ELLs in a lesson about irony based on Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."