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Two novels I taught this year were To Kill A Mockingbird and A Gathering of Old Men. Prior to and during reading these novels, I had the kids look at some songs, poems, and historical context. Here are a few of my favorite things concerning the race relations Read More...
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Today we started the film The Matrix and the kids are enthralled. What a great feeling to know they are learning the literary devices and analyzing while enjoying the process.
Also, I introduced the double-entry journal, the Christ-like character attributes, Read More...
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I purchased some movie units from Michael Vetrie, an alternative high school teacher in Sun Valley, CA, and I’m going to try one tomorrow. I will show The Matrix in half-hour segments, so the students can do the following: compose a double-entry Read More...
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While I assess diction analysis papers, personal essay, and literary analysis essays this week in the evening, I have scheduled enrichment films for my students. Here they are:
Reading A Gathering of Old Men Malcolm X
Separate But Equal
Mississippi Burning Read More...
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Here is a list of my favorite literary works of length to teach: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A Tale of Two Cities Read More...
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Some urban legends are quite popular such as: the man with a hook on Lover’s Lane who loses it on a couple’s door handle,
the kids who drive without headlights until flashed by another car, and then they follow and beat the person,
the percentages Read More...
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I love using film clips or outside of class movies to enrich my students’ learning experiences, and the kids respond enthusiastically when I do use the cinema to enhance units. Any suggestions?
I have the following novels to teach this semester: Read More...
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I turned the movie evening with my students into a hot dog feed. While they watched the movie (Minority Report because of reading Julius Caesar), I barbecued hot dogs and provided chips and pop. It was great!
The best part was watching the kids figure Read More...
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What do Brutus (from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar) and John Anderton (from Minority Report) have in common?
The answer is: pre-crime, preemptive action. And this is why my Sophomores will have the opportunity to watch Minority Report after school with Read More...
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Recently I decided to include more music into my lessons. I started this with my American Literature courses (the College in the High School and mainstream classes), and my students have reacted quote favorably.
Initially, I used The Who’s “Baba Read More...
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I took a few pictures of projects for the end of The Great Gatsby unit. Each pair of students had to create an artistic rendition based on a quotation (Eckleburg’s eyes were popular) with an explanation, a sonnet connecting three characters, three Read More...
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A while ago I mentioned that I had my students research topics for the era in which our novels take place. We then used their findings to create visually pleasing bulletin boards. The requirements were: to include at least one image for each researched Read More...
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While reading The Grapes of Wrath with my class this month, I introduced the idea of pragmatism to the students. I used the two primary facets of this philosophy to help analyze the novel. These two characteristics of pragmatism are: 1) truth is mutable, Read More...
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How about this allusion (scroll to the bottom) to the Last Supper? Not only do I love the allusion itself, but I love that sci-fi show. April 4 can’t get here soon enough for the final installments of Battlestar Galactica! Read More...
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I thought I’d post some updates on the goings on I’ve discussed previously.
When my class created bulletin boards about the 1920s for The Great Gatsby, things did not go exactly as planned. Being literal-minded students, almost everyone basically Read More...
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