Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

04.06.16 Using Sensitivity Analysis to build students’ “ear” for writing

  Here are the first three paragraphs of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic short story, “Harrison Bergeron”: HARRISON BERGERON THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was…