she immediately “started doing things differently in my classroom.” She’d always prided herself on her charisma with the students. Her “Pharaoh Game” lesson, in which she dressed up as an Egyptian monarch and theatrically mimicked knocking down the students’ paper “pyramids” when they weren’t sturdy enough, got students hysterical every year. Her writing lessons helped even her many students for whom English was a second language craft decent persuasive essays. But PLATO stretched her ideas in new and helpful ways.
