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Making Meaning in Literature: A Video Library, Grades 6-8
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Making Meaning in Literature: A Video Library, Grades 6-8A video library for middle school language arts teachers; 9 twenty-minute video programs, library guide, and Web site This video library opens a window into grades 6-8 language arts classrooms, allowing you to witness the teaching practices of eight exemplary teachers. In diverse classrooms, these teachers use a variety of pedagogical techniques to guide their students into unique and enriching relationships with literature. These relationships, which noted researcher Dr. Judith Langer calls “envisionments,” help students become more involved readers and develop lifelong enthusiasm for literature. The teachers in these video programs model techniques that help create literary communities — supportive atmospheres for developing readers who are able to speak and write effectively about the texts they encounter. The accompanying print guide and Web site show you how to draw upon these classroom models for professional development, curriculum planning, parent and community outreach, and a variety of other uses. ISBN: 1-57680-528-X Individual Program Descriptions1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom In this program, Dr. Langer describes the hallmarks of an envisionment–building classroom — a place where students, working at the highest levels of their ability, can experience literature and make meaning for themselves. Her comments are illustrated by classroom examples. 2. Building a Literary Community In Joe Bernhart's diverse seventh–grade language arts classroom in Houston, Texas, students work in small groups with a variety of texts in contemporary young adult literature. Bernhart demonstrates how he encourages students to develop deeper understandings of the text. 3. Asking Questions In a seventh–grade gifted and talented language arts class in Miami, Florida, Ana Hernandez prompts students to pose their own questions as they read Sharon Draper's Tears of a Tiger. As they discuss major issues of the text and consider the actions of the characters, the students immerse themselves within the story. 4. Facilitating Discussion Students in Tanya Schnabl's sixth–grade language arts class in rural Sherburne, New York, become involved with Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix's futuristic text. As Schnabl encourages discussion of the text on many levels, the students move beyond their first impressions of the book to internalize lessons and make them their own. 5. Seminar Discussion Dorothy Franklin's diverse seventh–grade language arts classroom in the heart of Chicago focuses on Langston Hughes's short story, "Passing." Franklin encourages her students to take on the perspective of the characters in the text, with some surprising and satisfying results. 6. Dramatic Tableaux This program features the seventh–grade Berlin, Maryland, classroom of Dr. Jan Currence. Currence and her students delve into Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963. Currence first models and then engages students in tableau activities, in which students draw on their experiences to bring the text to life for others. 7. Readers as Individuals This program visits Flora Tyler’s sixth–grade language arts class in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to show how one teacher, using writing and reading workshop models, works with students who are each reading a different literary text. 8. The Teacher’s Role in a Literary Community Barry Hoonan's fifth– and sixth–grade language arts class on Bainbridge Island in Washington are studying a variety of contemporary young adult fiction titles. As students meet in small groups to focus on each text, Hoonan demonstrates how teachers can tactfully and effectively guide these discussions. 9. Whole-Group Discussions Witness an effective literary community as Linda Rief's eighth–grade language arts class in Durham, New Hampshire discusses Lois Lowry's The Giver. Here, the students work as a group to examine the text and discern the ways its themes relate to their lives. In Search of the NovelA video workshop on teaching the novel for middle and high school teachers; 8 one-hour video programs, 2 supplemental Authors' Notes videos, workshop guide, and Web site; graduate credit available Discover creative strategies for bringing novels to life for middle and high school students with this workshop, featuring the words and works of 10 novelists, including Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, J. K. Rowling, and Toni Morrison. Within the framework of real classroom practice, the workshop offers interviews with contemporary authors, literary critics, teachers, and students, as well as film clips from adaptations of the novels featured. In Search of the Novel poses basic questions that can help you examine the genre from multiple perspectives and bring it to life for your students. Produced by the Educational Film Center. 2000. Directory: Uploads Uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 Uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers Uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? 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