Search results matching tags 'education' and 'literature'

LinksForEducators.com is Launched

agregson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:51:09 GMT

I hope you will join me in visiting Links for Educators. It is the newest searchable databse of websites directly related to education and teaching. It contains a searchable database so you can find links relevant to your discipline and you can even rate the websites so you know what others have found to be helpful. I hope you will visit it and use it to it's best abilities. It could prove to be a great resource!

Thanks!

Ann :)

Teacher Websites

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:00:32 GMT

I’m going to advocate that every teacher create (or have someone else create) a website for every class, especially those of you teaching in middle and high schools. I have one, though I won’t link to it because I like my anonymity, but I will say it has improved my communication with parents and students. [...]

The Year in Review

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:04:19 GMT

I’m such a geek when it comes to teaching. Two weeks after the school year concludes, I’m ready to start again. Since I can’t have a classroom full of students to teach, I go back and revise and adapt my curriculum lessons during July and August. This year I have some more revisions to make, [...]

Two Novels of Race Relations

Anonymous — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:34:38 GMT

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 in the novels. Prior to reading To Kill [...]

The Matrix in Class - Part II

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:39:05 GMT

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, and the heroic cycle. Everyone dove right in to the the work. While watching the film I [...]

The Matrix in Class

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:09:02 GMT

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 journal, study the film using literary terms, analyze critical quotations in the novel plot how Neo follows [...]

Movies for Enrichment

Anonymous — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:22:51 GMT

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 Reading Frankenstein Edward Scissorhands Frankenstein Reading The Iliad Troy 300 Any movies you would recommend for these texts? How about for Norse Mythology, Fahrenheit 451, [...]

My Favorite Literature to Teach

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:57:08 GMT

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 by Charles Dickens What are your favorite pieces of literature to teach? [...]

Are We Reading Killjoys?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:17:22 GMT

I posted a bit ago that the joy of reading seems to be dwindling, and Mr. Van Pelt has an ingenious new post using an analogy comparing the teaching of reading and the teaching of kissing. It’s a spectacular explanation for what teachers may unwittingly be doing. In the future I may add some more thoughts [...]

Movie Suggestions

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:20:34 GMT

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: To Kill A Mockingbird, Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451, A Gathering of Old Men, and Beowulf. I will show the film versions for [...]