Where English teachers go to help each other
Steve M's Groups
-
Adolescent Literature
516 members
-
Teaching with Technology
961 members
-
Teaching Texts
1337 members
-
Journalism
71 members
Steve M's Discussions
Writers with Distinct Style
Replied Dec. 26, 2009
Writers with Distinct Style
Replied Dec. 22, 2009
Timed Writing Assignments?
Replied Dec. 22, 2009
Steve M's Page
Latest Activity
How about having them compare and contrast American news networks with world news organizations (e.g. BBC, Al Jazeera, CBC-Canada)?
In this world of convergence, might they also start examining the websites of various news nets homepages? Do they c…
Hi Steve,
While I have not yet taught full-time (I'm in a grad program now -student teaching) I HAVE spent the past two decades working in broadcast journalism.
Here are a couple of thoughts:
After you have compared the various news presentations (f…
As part of the journalism course, our school asks us to do a unit on broadcast journalism. Besides comparing the news presentations of different networks, does anyone have suggestions or ideas? If so, I would love to hear them. Thanks!
Charles Dickens
Virginia Woolf
Willa Cather
John Irving
James Patterson
Janet Evanovich
Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce.
Funny, funny stuff, Keith.
By the way, I was thinking about King--I have been a fan for of his years, but the challenge is in finding something appropriate for tenth graders.
I think Stephen King has a pretty distinctive voice (even when it's voiced over by Richard Dreyfuss in Stand by Me or Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption).
There's a pretty funny, somewhat germane posting you may want to check out called Fam…
Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses would work in high school).
Profile Information
- Where do you work?
- Lower Merion High School
- Choose all that apply to your job
- College Professor, High School English Teacher
- What are you reading?
- Cat's Cradle
- How do you define your role/work?
- I currently teach various levels of sophomore English.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 6:01am on December 15, 2009,
Anmarie said…
- WOW- you and trish are both on this????
- At 4:55am on February 23, 2009,
Trish Schuller said… - Roy will be so jealous so we cannot tell her we did something without her!!
- At 4:25pm on January 18, 2009,
Dianne Hoeve said… - Thank you so much for taking the time to reply...your comments were invaluable!!! Dianne
About
Latest Activity
Michael writes:
Most often it's [constructivism in practice] not that extreme, but usually it tends to share in the general progressive antipathy to "mere" knowledge and hostility to the "sage on a stage" or any sage anywhere.
This is mere caricat…
It seems like a lot of kids don't care for details. Spelling, anyone? I have had the same problem especially with the transfer. You would think that after teaching students how to use parenthetical citation and then correcting their mistakes on thei…
I believe comedy is underrepresented. My students often complain about the depressing works we read (12 grade, but they also say that about previous English courses). We added Much Ado About Nothing a dozen years ago as something of a balance to Ham…
Hi Pat, I have never done these myself, but there are some great examples at VocabAhead Vocab Videos which also contains links to digital resources to help students create their videos. While most of the videos are done professionally, there is at l…
Hi Pat, I have never done these myself, but there are some great examples at VocabAhead Vocab Videos which also contains links to digital resources to help students create their videos. While most of the videos are done professionally, there is at l…
Thanks for your reply -- it was very helpful. I think I understand what you are saying -- kids do try to craft a dazzling sentence, rather than one with insight. And something simple can be insightful. But my concern is really the thinking behind th…
I would say comedy is underrepresented. My students have nicknamed my class "AP Sex & Death" as we tend to go to the dark side. I do try to use some comedy in preparation for a Q3 comedy prompt. We do use A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Color Purple…
Your "rambling" is fantastic. So much good advice. You know, I'm actually looking forward to writing now. I feel like I've got a handle on it.
Thanks for all of your comments.
I really like "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. It is short and I think very accessible for struggling students. It won the Newberry Medal. Not only did it help me understand what the big deal was about the duststorms of the time, I thought it told…
And what about the fact that often writers don't know what their thesis is until they begin reflecting in writing about a subject or occurrence? Happens to me all the time.
Thank you so much everyone! I definitely have a better feel for how essential questions work. I've been able to brainstorm a few and included a few here. Feel free to tell me if I am way off base.
What does it mean to be an “Outsider”?
What makes…
Judith--
One opportunity is Teen Ink (http://www.teenink.com). This is a publication for teens only, ages 13-19, to submit and publish their work. The one draw back I found is that once accepted, Teen Ink keeps all rights to the work. This means ki…
Bill,
You have it wrong. I didn't say the theory has not had wide influence. I never said anything like that. I agree that it has had wide influence. What I said was I've never heard of teachers labeling themselves as constructivists or nonconstruct…
The Ugly Truth is that my number one goal for my students right now has to be to raise their 2010 standardized test scores.
I find it disturbing, off-base, heart-wrenching, and almost something shameful to admit. However, NCLB has my entire school'…
I am in search of a novel set during the Great Depression/Dust Bowl era. It will be used in a 10th grade history class; most of the students are struggling readers. The teacher would like to stay away from the "big name classics." He wants something…
Badge
© 2010 Created by Jim Burke on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
