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New Dorp High School: Thinking and Writing

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New Dorp High School students become self-confident, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners through a highly structured approach to writing that is applied to every subject area. Watch the practices that helped transform this school into a dynamic intellectual community.

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showcase School sharing promising prognosis we were failing school the school that struggles and we really had to come together and the best way to do that is to analyze where the students are in all the kind of happens once you really focus on the instructional practices you can change the school you definitely can change the school  Anthony what do you think steps are physics student I see a lot of the incorporation of the Transitions and the conjunctions into his writing where he's really analyzing in his writing really expand on the evidence and express themselves more clearly the opportunities for them open up very dramatically in his home the Flanigan visually youngsters and express themselves clearly or put something down on paper it's a good representation of deeper thinking it's a gift what would be play packing and Outlet the writing strategies the doctor Hoffman strategies from 9th to 12th grade when you have to do a 25-page paper to finish college peel have the tools to do it on your own  condition would really lends itself to your last piece of it's the one that's really holding in on what you proving most important that's a really good one when I started using the Hoffman it was almost an immediate of fact that I became so much closer to my students it became apparent that they know that this something that they need I can't imagine not giving them this was going to be soon this grade cultural Exchange left a lasting impact on the world  Ray Charles Trey Songz south of the same strategies are used in every discipline it's part of their repertoire all day I see them for 45 minutes and then math teacher their science teacher each see them for 45 minutes the fact that these skills are infused into all the disciplines into all the contents and curriculum for The More Than Fiction the writing in itself their syntax their grammar their cognition it's all enhanced for the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the world we think that on the 9th grade level it's really not necessary to write a full-fledged we focus on the best sentence of Columbus equals Italian explorer  for Spain led to the discovery of America 1492 they come up with topic sentences and they know that they need one to make their point that you put into that topic sentence and why you did that I used an appositive to expand the topic sentence so you know what the paragraph is going to be about Phil then go through all of their evidence and sequences in order they'll come up with a concluding statement finally the Columbian Exchange led to Major cultural diffusion of resulted in the deaths of millions of Native Americans and almost wiped them all out asking me scene large cultural exchange had a lasting impact on society both positively and negatively expanding their thoughts once that's finished then usually Pirus us each other and it's at that point that they will then revise and edit look at some we can look at our work and see if estate and correct that mistake that's a skill that is a really good skill for any math that weird what we would like you guys to discuss the Erin office and your answers with the person next you for not teaching writing we're still teaching math for disintegrating the writing Within classroom correct equations correctly and I said I think that math in general has changed the expectations are different for the students to be able to elaborate explain and justify that's a key back to being successful in math who know how will we be able to elaborate that so Amy was incorrect because negative too because she didn't the -2 patterns to communicate is one another that's really hot into the classroom environment and the content as well pictures of forensic science so you'll find crime tape all over the place sometimes you see outlines of bodies in the rooms as well one of the most important steps in science ask further questions to decide what sorts of research will be next and writing strategies to lend themselves to asking a some questions so this is the who or what the did what when did they do it where did they do it and either why they did or how they did it the message that we're going to be using to rewrite the sentence we are doing a summarization strategy today which is something that allows students to create their own topic sentence you can send to see if the suspect has a high density what do you think strategies it gives students an idea of what their ultimate answer will look like and so they're able to start more easily you answer all of those things and then you use it all to make one sentence as a summary time with it it's a homework for gym 628 I'm writing a sentence on crunches Jesus skills retarded English then you take these skills and you bring them to the next class and you should always keep riding in Spanish sentences to always good to practice it on little homework site this so for this sentence before lateral raises is a good idea to do some push-ups but what's my first conjunction it is also a good idea to do crunches I'm always thinking of which direction when I take my sentences this is the courtroom that is really a special Tea Room in the law Institute at New Dorp high school we have a map dial team where students research a case and they will all get a case in front of a judge and the students in the class will act as everyone's ready for opening statement this morning gave his opening arguments he was posed with a fourth amendment case and you were able to see him using transitions conjunctions appositives and see his logic throughout he went up there without any notes he was able to just perform because of his confidence level  the prosecution will claye what does searches based on exigent circumstances but today you will find that this is not the case based on three reasons do the Hoffman program when I'm presenting in front of the group set my argument better at even when I'm just writing it my ideas are organized in my head and I can put it down on paper I know I have a plan I haven't go what we try to do here at New Dorp high school is to take those critical thinking skills to VAR students and make them be able to express I'm solves and the techniques that we have learned I feel are really taking them there  students who couldn't even write a sentence on now writing essays The Pride they feel the confidence level it changes that personality they can go from someone who is very shy and mattress about their learning and what they could produce to someone who stands up and blows us away they just Excel and there's nothing used RV water heater

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