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Bad Ideas About Writing

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Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction. This collection is published in whole by the Digital Publishing Institute at WVU Libraries and in part by Inside Higher Ed.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Cheryl E. Ball, Drew M. Loewe

Culturally Responsive Composition – A Writer's Handbook

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This book explores the essential elements, processes. and techniques of successful academic writing. Focusing on significant developments in technology, learning styles, and cultural competencies, readers are introduced to the various critical stages of the essay writing process; with relevant links, exercises, and downloadable handouts.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook

Author: Andy Gurevich

Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Posting Daggers: A Twitter-Centric Approach to Hamlet

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When teaching Shakespeare, we add to the modern problem of social media distraction the mission to convince students to not only read text, but to read something 400 hundred years old and in verse! So why not allow both worlds to meet? In this curricular unit, young learners are given the opportunity to explore their own world of modern communication while simultaneously analyzing the Bard, comparing the lines of Hamlet to how they communicate with each other. Students will explore and analyze Hamlet’s many lines, whether they are meant as private meditations or public barbs, and translate that to modern modes of communication. Would Hamlet have used a public Tweet or a private “direct” message for any given sentiment? Who would he want to hear him ponder whether “to be or not to be,” and how would that look on social media? Through exploration of key, succinct lines in the play that would hold up well in today’s world of headlines, texting and Tweeting, students will delve into the character of Hamlet, his relationships with other key characters, and how words themselves – modern or centuries-old – can have a deep impact upon us, even in brief.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Algebraic Equations, Inequalities, and Properties

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This lesson is about trying to get students to make connections between ideas about equations, inequalities, and expressions. The lesson is designed to give students opportunities to use mathematical vocabulary for a purpose to describe, discuss, and work with these symbol strings.The idea is for students to start gathering global information by looking at the whole number string rather than thinking only about individual procedures or steps. Hopefully students will begin to see the symbol strings as mathematical objects with their own unique set of attributes. (7th Grade Math)

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Disston, Jacob

Trebuchet Design & Build Challenge

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In this activity, students explore how trebuchets were used during the Middle Ages to launch projectiles over or through castle walls as well as how they are used today in events such as Punkin’ Chunkin’. Students work as teams of engineers and research how to design and build their own trebuchets from scratch while following a select number of constraints. They test their trebuchets, evaluate their results through several quantitative analyses, and present their results and design process to the class.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Kimberly Collins

Comparing and Contrasting : Experiences that Shape Us

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Comparing and contrasting our experiences with friends and family help us better understand our own identity.  Students will learn comparison/contrast language and practice using it through an activity, two different graphic organizers, classroom discussion and conversations with their parents to better understand each other, their parents and themselves.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Authors: Teri Knight, Oregon Open Learning

My Many Colored Days: Using Metaphor to Portray Mood

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 This lesson plan was created by Jani Randall, a sixth grade teacher for Elkhorn Public Schools in Nebraska.   The attached lesson plan is designed for students in grades 5-7.  Students will define and identify metaphors.  They will then create a free verse poem using metaphors.   This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 6.1.5 CIt is expected that this lesson will take 45 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Jani Randall

Standing up against a Dystopian Society

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During this problem-based learning unit, students will explore dystopian societies of past and in short stories in order to identify dystopian elements in today’s society.  In turn, students will have a choice between multiple product outputs in which they will apply what they have learned to modern day life and provide ideas of how to improve our society by combating these dystopian elements.*Students will need some prior knowledge of Nazi Germany, Civil Rights America in 1930’s, Present Day China, and Sierra Leone in order to make connections to why these societies have dystopian elements.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network

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