It is late (or early?) and this is amazing:

https://www.facebook.com/SSUTheatreSpeechDept/posts/2428628660495746

Hey everyone! I am just adding a few of Daniel’s blog posts. Enjoy! 🙂 

Hi class!

I wanted to share two Learning Guides about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.

The first one is a really powerful and complete study guide that is published by the Digital Public Library of America:

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/dpla-tg-080/teaching-guide-exploring-the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian/#.W0zLwkskq7o

It is full of photos, discussion questions, and teacher resources. It is wonderfully complete and a great document.

The second is a publisher-produced, slightly more condensed guide, put out by Scholastic:

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/absolutely-true-diary-part-time-indian-storia-teaching-guide/

There are four reproducible materials and some links.

Enjoy!

Daniel

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Hi class!

I thought I would share the following three resources about Found Poetry. I find (pun intended!) that such poems are really great ways to include the class involved into building their own poems and looking at text that they come across in their daily lives.

The first resources is about how to create a found poem:

https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson-plans/lets-create-a-found-poem

It’s very simple and to the point.

The second is historically-based, and has all kinds of connected resources, a rationale, and background activities:

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/found-poems

Finally, the Read-Write-Think website has an instructional plan, related resources, and space for comments:

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/found-poems-parallel-poems-33.html

Hope you like these!

Cheers,

Daniel

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Hi everyone!

In light of our discussion today on children’s books, I thought I would include the following resources, on visual literacy. These are really helpful for all levels, from primary to secondary.

The first resource is from a site called Teach Primary:

https://www.teachprimary.com/learning_resources/view/lesson-plans-for-visual-literacy

I liked this resource because it really showed me how to work with little kids, who are really not my speciality:

https://www.teachprimary.com/learning_resources/view/lesson-plans-for-visual-literacy

The second resource is from a site called Reading Recovery. This is a PDF of a PowerPoint, that gives you background, and a couple of examples of student writing, too:

https://readingrecovery.org/images/pdfs/Conferences/NC09/Handouts/Carry_Visual_Literacy.pdf

I like the last resource the most, because of the kids’ examples that are included.

Cheers,

Daniel

Hi folks:

I came across this e-book at https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137483904

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Teaching Stephen King

Horror, the Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature

Authors: Burger, A.

Hey Everyone,

Here are the slides for The Unnatural and Accidental Women presentation. Thanks for the support and discussion around this challenging text!

Cheerio!

Here’s the link to The Cask of Amontillado memes… along with some highlights!

The text presentations in this class reminded me of the presentations I had my students do during practicum. The presentations came after students completed their literature circle novels and I was very impressed with the results. I have attached both the grade 10 and 11 assignment/rubric I created if anyone is interested! Constructive feedback is always welcome!!!

Gr. 10 Book Club Final Presentation

Gr. 11 Book Clubs Final Presentation

Hello!

Here are my slides for Everything, Everything. Also, here’s the link to Emily McDowell’s website (alternative greeting cards): https://emilymcdowell.com 

I’m super passionate about sick lit and disability studies, so please please let me know if there is anything further I can provide or help investigate with you!

Thanks for being such (a) lovely audience/contributors today!

Everything, Everything Presentation Slides (Brooke Harvey).compressed

Thank you, Aaron, for pointing out the CBC documentary about Indigenous high school students in Thunder Bay after our text presentation today. Still I highly recommend reading Tanya’s book!

LLED 449 Presentation

Slash Presentation – LLED 449

Hi, this is Jonathan and David’s Slash Presentation!