Placing yourself in the text, IMAGINING the world brought to life, grants a stronger understanding of the environment, the characters' choices, and the ability to predict things to come. VISUALIZING demands that you focus on all FIVE SENSES to explore the text's environment as if you were there. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Visualizing]
Now that you have selected the IMPORTANT DETAILS from the short story, you are ready to connect them together to form your own SUMMARY of the text. By rewriting the text keeping only the key details while omitting the unnecessary you will have a strong grasp of the ACTION in the text.. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Summarizing]
Having READ and ANNOTATED the story Charles, you will now DETERMINE IMPORTANCE by selecting specific QUOTATIONS from the story that support why you self-selected the most important parts of the text for each page. Charles: A Focus on Literacy Skills Charles is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. A full copy of the text can be READ … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Determining Importance]
You will READ the short story Charles by Shirley Jackson. As you read through the story you will ANNOTATE your page using either STICKY NOTES or INK. You are free to write on and mark up the page however you wish. Once you have annotated your piece you will record the KEY DETAILS that you … Continue reading Charles: Focusing on Literacy Skills [Annotating]
Formal essays, and short writing pieces can often leave students grasping to understand why their assessment doesn't match their expectations. This is because there are a number of common mistakes that students make. In a number of cases, this isn't even their fault as, often, they aren't even taught to look for them. Here are FIVE common … Continue reading Common Essay Problems – Formal Writing
The best way to demonstrate that you understand something is to explain it to someone else. Allow students the opportunity to demonstrate that they understand a concept by flipping expectations and allow them to create assignments rather than complete them. Introduction This lesson focuses on having students READ A SHORT STORY and then break into small groups (I … Continue reading Teaching Literacy Skills through Assignment Creation
Literary / Poetic devices are used throughout both fiction and non-fiction to add depth, understanding, and beauty to otherwise dreary prose. Students need to have an understanding of the devices, as well as how they're used, before they develop the ability to appreciate the author's careful crafting. The Top Ten Devices MetaphorSimileAlliterationHyperboleImagery OnomatopoeiaSymbolRepetitionAllusionPersonification Teaching the … Continue reading Top 10 Key Literary Devices
This page contains all the downloadable resources for the Teaching Gender Representation in the Media lessons. While each lesson is a classroom-ready three part lesson, the various resources have all been collected in this location for teaching convenience. Gender Lesson Resources All resources and lessons can be used for non-commercial classroom use. THE TOY BOX … Continue reading Gender Representation Lessons: Downloadable Resources
Students need to be empowered to become agents of change in the world. Digital communication and social media are powerful tools that our students are already familiar with; showing them how to utilize these tools to enact real change allows them to reshape the media landscape that surrounds them. Having already looked at targetted writing … Continue reading Gender Lesson: Reshaping Gender Normative Roles
Advertisers constantly push messages at our students. Our students need to learn how to push back at the advertisers. Having already presented on the importance of creating better advertisements, this lesson will encourage them to take on a Role, select an Audience, choose a Format, and finally select a Topic as they write a piece … Continue reading Gender Lesson: The Gender R.A.F.T. Assignment
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