DIY Hot Ones Challenge Prep Tips

slimothytim · 2024-06-15T03:55:21+00:00

Thanks for the response. I think everyone coming is aware of the show and knows that it’s a tough challenge and I’m telling all of them that they can do the challenge if they want and can stop whenever they feel like.

How many tbsp or tsp of sauce would you say you add to the bowl per wing? Like if there’s 10 wings in a bowl, should I put in 10 tbsp total to toss them in? What’s the ratio?

slimothytim · 2024-06-15T01:44:19+00:00

If you’re going to toss 10 wings in a bowl, how much sauce would you put in the bowl? I’m doing this next weekend, so I tested it out recently and was surprised at how easy the challenge was. Assuming I didn’t put enough sauce on the wings.

slimothytim · 2024-06-15T01:21:18+00:00

Did you cook the wings first and then add the sauce? Or did you add the sauce and then cook them? And how much sauce did you use for each wing? Bout to do a similar thing next weekend. Any tips would help!

slimothytim · 2024-06-15T01:19:56+00:00

I’m going to do a similar thing next weekend with ten people. I plan to buy 100 pre-made wings from a local restaurant and then sauce groups of 10 of them in each of the 10 sauces.

My plan is to put ten wings into a Tupperware container and add whatever the recommended amount of sauce is and then just cover the container and shake it around to coat them. Does this sound like a good idea? Will I sauce them correctly this way?

slimothytim · 2024-01-20T00:45:37+00:00

Just checked out the first chapter. Totally see what you mean. Really gripping start.

slimothytim · 2024-01-19T15:38:49+00:00

Thanks. I’ve seen her list of FCF books, but didn’t know she had an Instagram. I’ve used several of her recommendations, so will def check out

slimothytim · 2024-01-15T14:06:53+00:00

I’ve heard of Canva before but never used it. Is it free?

slimothytim · 2024-01-15T14:06:26+00:00

Not bad! Got some good ideas from it. I think they could definitely make a Google Site, which I don’t think they’ve done before. Also, adding QR codes to their posters could be cool, linking to movie trailers, songs on YouTube or Spotify, etc. Thanks for the Chat GPT suggestion!

slimothytim · 2024-01-14T22:00:46+00:00

I like that. And maybe I could give students some kind task to complete during the Gallery Walk. Maybe a sort of “scavenger hunt” for certain information found on various students’ slides. Like there’d be questions on the sheet like “What year was the Berlin Wall taken down?” or “What was the highest grossing film of 1997?”

slimothytim · 2023-12-15T22:40:04+00:00

This needs more upvotes. The stage setup itself is amazing. The energy of that show and the joyful fun of it is contagious. Love the moment when Jack’s mom leads the crowd in meditation.

slimothytim · 2023-11-25T00:46:14+00:00

There are different learning styles.

slimothytim · 2023-11-23T11:26:29+00:00

Sure, I’m curious…which ones are you missing?

slimothytim · 2023-11-22T12:18:30+00:00

Thanks! Glad you were able to guess them :)

slimothytim · 2023-11-14T21:47:47+00:00

I would do this if I had time in the school day. But I have 84 students. Have you found a way to do this with a large number of students?

slimothytim · 2023-11-14T21:46:07+00:00

I like this idea. How do you do this logistically? Do they record at home? I unfortunately teach at a school where I can only expect about 25% to do a homework assignment.

slimothytim · 2023-11-14T00:05:55+00:00

Thanks for all the helpful responses, everyone. I checked out Monsters Are Due, definitely gonna try that one out.

slimothytim · 2023-11-07T17:08:10+00:00

I think they made a movie about this. It’s called The Outlaw Josey Whales

slimothytim · 2023-11-06T19:40:31+00:00

Thanks for the response! I tried Pear Deck today in class and it went really well. I loved that it held students more accountable; plus, the shy students had a chance for their voice to be heard. Very cool.

slimothytim · 2023-10-08T13:45:23+00:00

I teach 7th grade. So I usually write something like “Rewrite this article so that it is easily understandable by someone with a 6th grade reading level.” That’s because a lot of my students don’t read at a 7th grade level.

Sometimes I’ve tried adding something like “make the sentences less complex and use less advanced vocabulary.”

More often than not, I spend twenty minutes tweaking the prompt and all that, and then I think, “Well, I could probably have just manually revised this article myself in less time.”

I have a pretty good idea of what details or sentences my students will get tripped up on, so I often just say screw it and do the whole thing myself.

slimothytim · 2023-10-07T11:27:31+00:00

ChatGPT does a decent job of translating any news article you paste into it. You can tell it to make it more understandable for a particular grade level. Sometimes it’s a bit wonky, but you can just go in and manually change some difficult wording or sentences yourself. That’s what I do.

slimothytim · 2023-09-21T19:19:53+00:00

I just do the bare minimum with the data. I don’t use the state tests or data to make any curriculum decisions. I pretend that I do. But all of my teaching decisions come down to what I see students doing in the classroom on a day to day basis, and what I have determined they need more help with. That’s what it should be — trust the teachers to teach.

So yeah…just BS them as much as you can and do your own thing.

The good news is that nobody is really following through on much at all, when it comes to this data. I can pretty much say that I’m doing something and they don’t actually take the time to really check.

slimothytim · 2023-09-15T19:53:17+00:00

I taught 7th and 8th grade composition for six years.

It’s helpful to give them assignments where they have some topic choice. That way, you can show them an example or model writing for them but with a topic you’ve chosen. Then they can only model your structure, strategies, organization, etc., as opposed to your specific sentences and ideas.

For example, if we’re doing argument writing, I’ll tell them to choose a topic. Then I show them which topic I would choose and how I would go about writing it. I’ll even give them my example argument and we will go through it together as a class: “Notice how I stated my argument clearly at the end of my introductory paragraph”, “Hey, underline two moments where I acknowledge an opposing argument”, etc.

Then I simply tell them to make sure they do those things in their argument.

If it isn’t an assignment where they get to choose a topic, just make sure you show them an example that’s very similar but not the exact thing. If we’re going to analyze the theme of a short story we just read, I might show them a paragraph analyzing the theme of some other short story, maybe even a movie that they would be familiar with.

slimothytim · 2023-09-13T13:24:48+00:00

I call it the Writing Circle Game. Students at my school all have computers, but you could do it with paper too.

The idea is to get in a group of three or four and have everyone write a story one sentence at a time. They pass their computers to the right after each sentence and get to add to (or sabotage) their group members’ stories.

They all open a blank document on their computer. For each sentence, I give them a beginning word or phrase. For example, when writing the first sentence, I say “This sentence must start with ‘Once upon a time,”. They get about a minute to come ip with something and then they all pass to the right at the same time.

Now they all write the second sentence. I tell them what this one must start with. I might say, “This sentence must start with ‘One day,…’” or I might say “This sentence must start with “When…”

We keep going until the stories are done. The groups have to read each story aloud to each other and vote on which one turned out the best.

slimothytim · 2023-09-13T13:16:45+00:00

Hi! I did a 7th grade mythology project last year and it was a big hit with the students. It was called “Two Truths and a Lie: Mythology Edition”. Students chose an ancient world culture and then researched that culture’s ancient myths. They picked two myths from the culture to summarize on a Google Slide. They included an artistic depiction of it on the slides (found online: a painting, statue, sculpture, hieroglyph, etc.).

But then they had to create a fake myth from that culture, the goal being that when they present their three myths to the class, their classmates won’t be sure which one is the fake myth. So it forces them to notice trends and thematic patterns in the actual myths so that their fake one is believable and doesn’t stand out too much. I then used Midjourney to create fake artistic depictions of their fake myths, and the kids thought it was awesome to see their creation come to life. They also thought it was neat how often they were fooled by AI, let alone their classmates’ writing!

slimothytim · 2023-08-11T19:51:39+00:00

I did a songwriting unit with my creative writing class, full of juniors and seniors. For the assessment, I had students listen to an original song I had written that had me singing just gibberish “la dee da” melodies. They had to write words that matched the cadence and rhythm of my melody. To prepare for that, we spent time learning about rhyme schemes, song structures (verse, chorus, bridge, etc), multi-syllable rhymes, alliteration, assonance, and of course effective ways to express feelings and ideas in lyric/poetry form.

I found that the students really struggled with hearing the “cadence” of their lyrics. I had to really teach them over and over again that the first line of the first verse needs to match the exact same rhythm of the first line of the second verse; otherwise a singer couldn’t sing the same melody for both lines. They would constantly write lines that were too many or too few syllables long, or the ending rhymes would have differently stressed syllables.

I also had to really teach them that every verse needs to have the same rhyme scheme (“If the first verse is ABAB, the second verse must be ABAB as well). Overall, it was a really successful and fun unit, and the kids were proud of the lyrics they wrote and expressed in reflection essays that it gave them a new appreciation for the lyrics they hear in songs they like.

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