Like any great model, the strength of the politicolors pairs their simplicity with their potential for greater interpretation. The collective works of Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss are just the same. In my second year of utilizing Professor Harris’s model, I coupled Seuss stories with each of the boxes.
When last we met, I was explaining my dread, as I contemplated using Will’s boxes with my 4th-6th classroom. Here was this rich, layered theory, which I still hadn’t mastered; yet, the politicolors had given dimension to the founding, I’d never before imagined. Could I bring them
Looking for a way to make Thomas Hobbes more to your students than life as “nasty, brutish, and short”? Today, I shared with my 4th-6th graders Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You’ve no doubt seen the Chuck Jones animated version, but I’m going to visit
Once upon a time, there was a beast. He chose to live on the outskirts of society; he chose to let his anger fester. He watched and he boiled as the people lived their lives, free and happy. One day, however, the people’s joy stabbed him so fiercely that