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Attached are the Hero Journey notes - I tend to summarize the information for my students...
I have also attached the chart I received from the conference (Sarah Reinhardt did the original). The chart attached is for the movie Shrek, because I te...
I'd love the materials. Thank you, Emily
I also teach Huck. I'd love to see your hero's journey handout.
Emily:
If you go to rawinck.ning.com, (our student website at Silver Creek High School) and click on Groups, then Student Resources, my students have posted a bunch of material on The Hero's Journey. Do you want to do this with a text like Huck F...
How detailed do you want it? I attended a conference a couple years ago where a teacher had mapped out the hero's journey for her students & I could send you the handout... I also have the notes I use to teach about the journey (I forget where I g...
I also use articles from the Onion. I bring in 5 or 6 articles and each group is responsible to reading the article, discussing whether it is effective and/or funny. I then have students write brief satiric pieces.
Hello! I recently began to teach Huck Finn to my 10th graders and I'm planning on using the Hero Journey for the first time. I am introducing it using Star Wars, but since I've never taught this before, does anyone have any ideas helping students ...
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I love the new tools--more than books in the sense that I've always lived in places where the books I most wanted to read were rare and hard to get.
But I think we are moving into dangerous times. Specifically, I see the power of propaganda to or...
I loved Catcher in The Rye and used to cry at Jude the Obscure. What a terrible story! I certainly suspended my disbelief ;-).
My favourite book was not a teen one it was Marcel Proust A la Recherche du Temps Perdu In Search of Lost Time in English I found it so funny, witty and true to man's nature. I used to finish reading the three books that form the collection and st...
Try searching this group; there have been some great discussion threads on this book. You'll find lots of good ideas. :)
I like this--I do similar things, with a lot of attention to sounds and music. I like the horse riding, which reinforces the linkage between poetry and dance--the bodily, sensuous aspect--though I somewhat dully settle for drumming various rhythms...
I guess I'm just glad that I recognize how bad they were, and that I came out of it to be a Jane Austin fan. It gives me hope for these kids I teach.
I’ve seen some discussion of this topic on here recently, and perhaps this post will be a bit redundant. But as I’m nearing the completion of my education degree and preparing to enter the teaching profession, I find myself becoming increasingly c...
For anyone that hasn't had a chance, today is the day...VOTE
My students are watching the results hourly- fun discussions.
Just go to http://www.weareteachers.com/web/602148/1 and follow the directions there. Vote for Duff, Karla- (page 8) it is ...
I was a big fan of the Chaim Potok books, The Chosen , The Promise, etc. I read each of them about a dozen times and seriously considered converting at one point in my life. I was also a big fan of The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye and, odd...
Oh we LOVED these books when I was in middle school and high school. They got passed from hand to hand to hand--and God they are terrible, and disturbing. I wonder how much books like these, and the other stuff we used to read (Judyth Kratnz, etc)...
I'm with Michael on the reasoning for using Wordpress. If students are to continue with their own blog (for any purpose) down the road, learning the protocols of Wordpress or Blogger makes a lot of sense.
I'm glad it was helpful, John. I was not aware of the Maja Wilson book, but I will give it a look.
I read the V.C. Andrews series Flowers in the Attic series over and over. Having picked it up again as an adult, I'm fairly disturbed that I loved it so much. However, it makes me more (tolerant?, accepting?) understanding of my middle school stud...
Thank you for the suggestions. I am very fortunate to be part of a pilot program pairing a history and an English teacher, so they know the time period. They already seem to be enjoying the plot, but they are having difficulty with the language. W...
I really really like this idea. However I can also see students ignoring it as an easy grade or just ignoring it altogether. I do not know. The premise is great...and in a perfect world I would hope it works.
Excited to try. Our school system offers an online site called moodle with forum capabilities. Not sure ning will make it through the school's internet blockers. With as much as pencils helped the writing process, I can't wait to see what they'll ...
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