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Talking and Writing About Love - Valentine's Day Activity
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2014-02-08T17:08:20.862Z
Anna J. Small Roseboro
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Valentine.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4519 align-center" height="180" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Valentine-188x300.jpg" title="Valentine" width="113"></img></a> <span class="font-size-7" style="color: #ff0000;">Vocabulary of Love</span></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Refer to the most recent reading or topic you’ve studied</span> <span style="font-size: 13px;">with</span> <span style="font-size: 13px;">your class.…</span></span></h2>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Valentine.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4519 align-center" title="Valentine" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Valentine-188x300.jpg" alt="" width="113" height="180"/></a><span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-7">Vocabulary of Love</span></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993366;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Refer to the most recent reading or topic you’ve studied</span> <span style="font-size: 13px;">with</span> <span style="font-size: 13px;">your class.</span> <strong style="font-size: 13px;"><em>Ask students to consider way(s) that love could have helped resolve the issues faced by the characters/people in that reading?</em></strong></span></h2>
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<p>This, of course, should lead to discussion of different kinds if love – <strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Affection"><span style="color: #ff00ff;">affection</span></a></span><span style="color: #ff00ff;">,</span> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/friendship?s=t"><span style="color: #ff00ff;">friendship</span></a></span>, <span style="color: #ff00ff;">eros (</span><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Erotic?s=t"><span style="color: #ff00ff;">erotic</span></a></span><span style="color: #ff00ff;">), and</span> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/charity?s=t"><span style="color: #ff00ff;">charity</span></a></span></strong>. Consider THINK, PAIR, SHARE.</p>
<p>Then invite students to create a <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">LOVE</span></strong> acrostic poem based on that reading/discussion. Copy and paste these these quickie poems in a <span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://www.wordle.net/"><span style="color: #008080;">Wordle</span></a></strong></span>, or <span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://www.tagxedo.com/"><span style="color: #008080;">Tagxedo Word Cloud Shape</span></a></strong></span>s print and project as poster. Or publish the poems as a Prezi or Powerpoint on class website. Exchange with other classes doing same assignment. Come back to the poems as review before test or exam.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">What a propitious time to help students</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">expand their understanding</span><br/> <span style="color: #ff0000;">of connotation and denotation.</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">The class I was preparing for was reading Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel, <em>Black Boy. </em><br/>Here's a LOVE acrostic about the relationships in that book.</p>
<h3 style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> L</strong></span>oving is stifled when folks don’t listen.</h3>
<h3 style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> O</strong></span>bviously, they all soon suffer.</h3>
<h3 style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> V</strong></span>ery likely Richard would have succeeded sooner if</h3>
<h3 style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> E</strong></span>veryone had listened and acted in love.</h3>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Richard-Wright-Black-Boy-Love-Peom.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6285 aligncenter" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Richard-Wright-Black-Boy-Love-Peom-300x225.jpg" alt="Richard Wright Black Boy Love Peom" width="300" height="225"/></a></p>
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Collect Now; Use in the Fall
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2013-07-09T20:47:20.782Z
Anna J. Small Roseboro
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<p>This summer return to check post for interesting links, ideas, and video you may find useful as you</p>
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<p>plan for the Fall. Some will just be <a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fall.jpg"><img alt="Fall" class="alignright" height="129" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fall.jpg" width="180"></img></a> fun, others intriguing, some even challenging to you and your students. I'll add to it as I find new treasures. Enjoy!…</p>
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<p>This summer return to check post for interesting links, ideas, and video you may find useful as you</p>
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<p>plan for the Fall. Some will just be <a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fall.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fall.jpg" alt="Fall" height="129" width="180"/></a>fun, others intriguing, some even challenging to you and your students. I'll add to it as I find new treasures. Enjoy!</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/word_video.wmv"><span style="color: #008080;">Amazing Word Riddle -video</span></a></strong></span> - an interesting video clip for a DO IT NOW, bell class starter.<br/> Once your students get the idea, try these two, then invite them to create their own.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>restarted, restated, estate, state, sate, sat, at a</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>splatters, splatter, platter, latter, later, late, ate, at, a</strong></em></span><br/></p>
<p>Ever considered incorporating Socratic Seminars as learning experiences for your students. To get you started, here's a link to the WAYSEEKER site, <strong><span style="color: #008080;">"<a href="http://wayseeker.hubpages.com/hub/Socratic-Seminar-A-Practical-Guide#mod_18915267"><span style="color: #008080;">Socratic Seminar Guidelines: A Practical Guide</span></a>"</span></strong></p>
<p>Teaching Text Structures - Kristi Orcutt's slide presentation on teaching <span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Text-Structures-slides1.pdf"><span style="color: #008080;">Text Structures </span></a></strong></span> makes for a efficient and informative introduction or review to this learning strategy.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://incidentalcomics.tumblr.com/post/54999814450/shakespeare-in-the-park-all-words-in-this-comic"><span style="color: #008080;">Shakespeare in the Park</span></a></strong></span><br/> While you students may not recognize all the reference, it still would be fun to have them do comic strips of key quotations from the literature you study together. Doesn't have to be a long, drawn out assignment. Could be a prep before a test with teams of three or four incorporating selected quotations. Here's a link to a <strong><span style="color: #008080;"><a href="http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/"><span style="color: #008080;">comic maker</span></a></span></strong> program.</p>
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After Exams Creative Project
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2013-04-25T00:32:01.396Z
Anna J. Small Roseboro
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<h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Photographs.jpg"><img alt="Photographs" class="alignleft wp-image-2714 align-center" height="134" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Photographs-300x238.jpg" width="168"></img></a> Viewing and Writing about Photos</strong></span></h2>
<h2 align="center"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>from Around the World</strong></span></h2>
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<p><em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Preliminary Activity:</strong></span></em> Direct students to a website similar to…</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Photographs.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2714 align-center" src="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Photographs-300x238.jpg" alt="Photographs" height="134" width="168"/></a>Viewing and Writing about Photos</strong></span></h2>
<h2 align="center"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>from Around the World</strong></span></h2>
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<p><em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Preliminary Activity:</strong></span></em> Direct students to a website similar to <strong><span style="color: #008080;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/series/24hoursinpictures"><span style="color: #008080;">24 Hours in Pictures</span></a> .</span></strong> Let them explore the most recent photos, choose three of their favorites and write one sentence response/reaction to those three.</p>
<p>They can copy and paste the photo onto a Word document or PowerPoint slide and add their sentence as caption. Share results in class presentation or by posting on class website.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>For an end of the year project</strong></span> in a creative writing class<strong>, <span style="color: #800000;"><em>ask</em> <em>students to pretend they are preparing a portfolio to submit as part of an application to an all expenses paid creative writing institute to be held this summer on your state college campus.</em></span></strong> The committee wants to see the quality and range of writing the applicants can do. They ask the students to submit their original work in three different genres. You, the teacher, are so proud of their work, you suggest the following assignment to generate writing students may decide to submit in that portfolio.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>*</strong></span> view photos on <span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/series/24hoursinpictures"><span style="color: #008080;">24 Hours in Pictures</span></a></strong></span> taken on students’ own birth date. Or, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/index/subjects/"><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Library of Congress</strong></span></a> site and search for students' own birth date.<br/> <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>*</strong></span> choose three and write about three different photos in three different genres. (One genre for each of three photos.) Consider a story, a poem, a dramatic scene in a movie or TV script, a pitch to use photo in advertising campaign, an essay of protest, or a news article.<br/> <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>*</strong></span> copy and include photo on final draft to be shared with class, posted on class website, and evaluated by teacher using Customized Six Traits Rubric created by student(s) doing the same genre.. Those writing poems customize rubric for poems.</p>
<p>Their creating the rubric gives them ownership, but also reminds them of qualities expected in effective and interesting writing. For example, those students who are writing the same genre can meet and <a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/?p=4472">customize a Six-Traits© rubric</a> for their genre. In the CONTENT area add the minimum requirements. This will make grading easier for the teacher.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #993300;"> </span><span style="color: #993300;">*</span> <span style="color: #993300;">For those writing poems</span></strong> consider the constraints of free verse or form with specific minimum elements of imagery, music (rhythm, rhyme, sound) and number of lines, say 14-16.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong> * For those writing short, short stories</strong>,</span> include dialogue and traditional plot line; about how many words or pages. For example, 2-3 pages, 250-300 words.<br/> <strong> <span style="color: #993300;">* For those writing a dramatic scene:</span></strong> How many characters? Include stage directions? Camera shots? Props and/or sets? Lighting?<br/> <strong><span style="color: #993300;"> * For those writing news articles</span></strong> - Lead paragraph that includes answers to who, what, when, where, why, and how? Length 250-300 words?<br/> <strong><span style="color: #993300;">* For those writing essays of protest or explanation:</span></strong> Introduction, body and conclusion that summarizes, reflects, or projects without introducing new ideas. What else?<br/> <span style="color: #993300;"><strong> * For those writing an advertisement:</strong></span> Write a pitch to the company to use as the advertising agency. What is the product? Who is the audience? What is the slogan? What appeals? Why should customer buy product? Where will ads be placed?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Click here for Handout <span style="color: #008080;"><strong><a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos1.pdf"><span style="color: #008080;">Viewing and Writing about Photos</span></a></strong></span></p>