EE: All About Analogies For All of Us

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EE: All About Analogies For All of Us

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Sep 5, 2019

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Join Lisa Bailey and Marc Hays as they discuss analogies, curriculum development, frog dissection, and epic sonnets. Marc is the author of the new resource, Analogies For All of Us, which is being used in the Reasoning Strand of Challenge A this semester.

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