Welcome back to campus for Term 2…
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Hell0 to the 9 Elementary TCs who are joining the Middle Years cohort in this section of LLED 320. I’ll post class updates on this blog so be sure to check here if you’ve missed class or misplaced a handout.
Here’s what shook down today:
Preview of Thursday’s Class
Please bring the following items to class:
- the 4-6 writing samples you gathered during your 2-Week Prac
- a laptop computer (fully charged, please), if you have one
We’ll be using both in class on Thursday, 20 January.
Revised Course Schedule
The course meeting times have been changed and are now as follows:
- Tuesdays: 1:00 – 4:30 in Scarfe 1328
- Thursdays: 12:30 – 4:00 in Scarfe 207
Course Outline
Here is a copy of the course outline and a calendar that shows dates we will be playing with various topics:
- LLED 320 (Holbrook) Course Outline – Term 2 in 2011
- LLED 320 (Holbrook) Course Calendar – Term 2 in 2011
Looking Back & Looking Ahead
I accessed your prior knowledge – the info covered in LLED 310 – so I didn’t overlap my instruction with what had already been covered. Also, I asked you to indicate topics you’d like addressed in the course so I can determine how best to focus the class time we spend together. Here’s the graphic organizer I handed out to gather the info:
Building Classroom Community Through Medieval Drama
You’ve heard of the European Middle Ages, right? A time of brave Black Knights and, well, “coconut” horses…
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I had a few goals in mind when I planned this task for today’s class:
- Getting the MY and Elem TCs working together
- Modeling how the LA strands and literacy, in general, can be infused across the curriculum
- Having some fun at the end of a long, long day
To those ends, we engaged in variety of dramatic activities, including:
- At The Fair – an riff on the active (and very competitive!) game Fruit Bowl
- Exchanging Objects – trading imaginary objects with fellow fair attendees
- Rubbing Shoulders at the Fair – determine your social status based on people’s verbal and non-verbal reactions to you
- Preparing for the Royal Feast – create a tableau the depicts some aspect of the preparations for a grand medieval feast.
Here’s the handout with all the details:
To bring closure to this piece of the lesson, I asked you to consider two questions:
- What aspects of literacy were involved as we engaged in these activities?
- How might you use or adapt these activities to good effect in your practicum (or another) classroom?
After taking up responses to these questions, we adjourned for the day.
Please remember your writing sample and laptops for next class. See you then.
– Lawrence