By confronting prejudices and allowing students to speak openly about their experiences, the foundation developed from from The Toy Box is strengthened with shared experiences and concepts. Students will look further into the gender normative roles they may feel they need to fulfill. This lesson is part of a large mini-unit on Teaching Gender Representation in the … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Gender Box
Regardless of age, everyone has a memory of a toy that they loved when they were a child, or a toy they wanted but they were never given. The things we play with help determine the people we grow into. This lesson focuses on separating boy toys from girl toys while pausing to take a look at why we … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Toy Box
Twine 2 is a piece of software that allows you to create Choose Our Way tales. In our last parts you learned about palm stories, familiarized yourself with the basics of choose our way tales, and then learned how to write basic choose our way tales. Now we'll look at how to digitize those tales using Twine 2. … Continue reading Using Twine 2 to Create Chooseable Path Stories
Palm Stories are short stories that students write using nothing more than the palm of their hand, and a little bit of imagination. Teachers ask students to close their eyes and picture a number of different things, making point form notes along the way. At the end of their meditative journey, they will have the … Continue reading Writing a Palm Story: Ideation for Creative Writing
Before you begin to write a Choose Our Way tale, like the Choose Your Own Adventure books you grew up with, you need to create a foundation where students understand the importance of allowing choice. So rarely are students taught to consider themselves as an active participant while reading, it may require a full class … Continue reading Writing Chooseable Path Stories with Your Students
Point Evidence Explanation paragraphs have all three requirements for supporting an opinion. The point is what the writer believes, the evidence is what the writer is using to prove their belief is true, and the explanation is an explanation of how the evidence supports the point. I use the following activity as a diagnostic to assess Reading and Writing knowledge. It … Continue reading Alligator River: Point Evidence Explanation Paragraphs
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