ECI 430/435 Middle Grades ELA/SS 2009
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Welcome! This wiki contains work, ideas, and discussion in progress related to the ECI 430 English language arts and ECI 435 social studies methods courses experience. It is used in conjunction with the NLC ECI 430/435 Group Ning. It is also used to support the ECI 496 MSL Senior Seminar.
Syllabi and Handbooks
ECI 430: Methods and Materials for Teaching English Language Arts in the Middle Grades
ECI 435 Methods and Materials in Social Studies
ECI 496 MSL Senior Seminar: New Literacies, Emerging Technologies, and Electronic Portfolios
Thematic Unit
This wiki page, Thematic Unit Work F09, includes our ideas and related work for crafting an interdisciplinary thematic unit, as well as our unit projects.
In addition, this related wiki page, Thematic Unit Resources F09, includes links to resources, including readings, that should be helpful in terms of informing the work you do to create your unit.
Using / Teaching Poetry
This wiki page, Poetry Resources F09, builds upon our work in class with the Milners, Atwell, and Orr articles and provides resources for using poetry, as well as teaching it. It also includes our Model Poetry Writing Activity Assignments.
Insights into Journals and Journaling
This wiki page, Insights into Journals and Journaling F09, features our ideas about journals and journaling practices and strategies in the middle grades classroom--what we know in general, what the literature says, what we're seeing in the field, and what we've experienced ourselves as students.
Inquiry-Based Learning
- What Makes a Good Question a Good Question?: This Good Questions F09 wiki page features our ideas for what makes a question a good question.
- Inquiry Strategies F09: On On this wiki page, you will post your Mission Possible mini-inquiry findings on various inquiry-based learning strategies.
- Inquiry Topics F09: On this wiki page, you will post your initial ideas for your inquiry project--topics along with motivating questions.
- Name Inquiry: Names and Naming Resources
- Paul Harvey: The First Podcaster?
= Example Paul Harvey Story / Broadcast: "America's Heart" (subject: 9/11)
= Selections from Paul Harvey's Rest of the Story
= Our Paul Harvey Stories F09
Language Exploration and Awareness
Initial Language Questions: This wiki page, Language Questions F09, features our initial questions resulting from the following prompt: What are some things you'd like to know more about with regard to language and teaching it? What are you curious about? Interested in? Have questions about?
Language-Focused Minilesson Ideas: This wiki page, Microteaching Ideas F09, features our ideas for teaching a language-focused minilesson for a microteaching session this semester. There are also some lesson plan examples provided as well.
Oxford Dictionaries Save the Words website: http://savethewords.org/
Leigh's Screencast of a Language Minilesson: Addressing Language Conventions in Revision
Easy Reader Book Sentence Composing Activity: You may download each other's initial drafts of revising an easy reader book using sentence composing strategies and brushstrokes. Note that these are first drafts, and they also include my feedback, using both the P-Q-S Method (facilitated by the Comments and Track Changes functions in Word) as well as color-coded highlighting to target specific feedback (green = strong writing; yellow = areas for possible revision). You'll use a similar response method for providing feedback on your partner's language-focused minilesson lesson plan. 1. DS & MH Lonely Dog; 2. MAO & LW The Lighthouse Children; 3. JS, JC, JT The Doll Story; 4. KC & BC Danny the Dino; 5. AT & CF Tooth Story; KJ & KT Great Snake Escape; CS & MR Lobster Tale
LEA / In Context Activity with Comic Strips: Click this link to download a packet of your efforts transforming comic strips to prose and punctuating dialogue correctly. The last page includes the guidelines we looked at in class as part of our minilesson on punctuating dialogue. Consider what your next steps might be with this activity...
Punctuating Dialogue: Guidelines -- Resource 1, Resource 2, Resource 3
Language Artifacts: This wiki page, Language Artifacts F09, features links to current events related to language or language by proxy in some way. In other words, they help to show the intersection of language, literacy, and culture. They also serve as examples of the type of items we are tweeting about on our Language_Today twitter feed. If you're a visitor to our wiki site, please also visit our twitter feed.
Reading / Writing Workshop F09
This wiki page, Defining Reading / Writing Workshop F09, features our ideas about reading and writing workshop -- what we know in general, what the literature says, what we're seeing in the field, and what we've experienced ourselves as students.
Interestingly, while the workshop approach has long been recognized as a feature of the middle grades English language arts classroom, this August, 2009 New York Times article, "A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like" highlights the workshop strategy as a new approach.
- Ch. 2 from Rief's Seeking Diversity text: Click here to download a PDF of Ch. 2, "Preparing for the Lesson: Organizing the Room, Materials, Expectations." You will use this to inform your annotated classroom map assignment and your additional posting to the R/W Workshop section for Class 9.
Social Studies Planning Project
This project presents lessons ideas for the North Carolina Standard Course of Study in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade social studies.
6th Grade South America and Europe
7th Grade Africa, Asia and Australia
8th Grade North Carolina: Creation and Development of the State
Social Studies Methods Teaching Activities
Mecklenburg Resolves and Declaration of Independence by Lauren Ward
Aztec Trading and Culture in the Marketplace by Alex Teich
Inquiry on the debate over the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by Julie Treadwell
Debating the Constitution by Rebecca Gwynne
Wikipedia in social studies activity
What's Worth Knowing
The links below (to student-created posters) represent our work in discussing and processing Postman & Weingartner's seminal chapter "What's Worth Knowing". We used Peter Elbow's "Writing to..." response strategy.
- Writing to Describe: Key Word F09
- Writing to Interpret: Main Message F09
- Writing to Interrogate: Questions for the Authors F09
- Writing to Evaluate: Applications F09
- Writing to Prompt Discussion: Questions for the Class F09
Adventures in Early America
Below are chapter summaries from Tony Horwitz's book A Voyage Long and Strange. for more on the book see http://www.tonyhorwitz.com/books/voyage-long-and-strange.php
In this work, students in an undergraduate social studies methods class and a graduate class focused on contemporary issues in social studies considered topics from the history of European exploration in North America and interpreted these topics through multiple historical lenses.
The wiki articles listed below included the following.
1. Summary of the overall idea of the work which is to review the chapter in Horwitz book, consider additional sources on the topic, read additional secondary textbook information about the topic, and analyze/interpret two images using the three secondary sources on the topic. The three sources are from Marcius Willson, a self-selected turn of the century textbook source, and Horwitz.
Marcius Willson American History published in 1847 and available here from Google Books.
2. Analysis, using another secondary source from around the turn of the 20th century up through 1930. (sources available at Goggle Books at [1] and search American History. Make sure you use the pull down menu at the top to limit your results to “View full only.”)
3. The analysis of two images using three lens that reflect the work of Willson, a self-selected turn of the century source, and Horwitz. The first image is from Alan C. Collins 1935/1962 textbook titled The Story of America in Pictures. Images from the book are online. This analysis includes descriptions of the image given the perspectives of three authors Willson, a self-selected turn of the century source, and Horwitz.
4. A second analysis of an image using Willson, on a selected turn of the century textbook source, and Horwitz.
These summaries are being extended using additional sources on American history as lenses for cross examination. Among the additional sources are illustrations from a 1935/1962 textbook by Alan C. Collins titled The Story of America in Pictures. Images from the book are online here. As well as an American History by Marcius Willson published in 1847 and available here from Google Books
Chapter 1 Vinland: The First Contact
Chapter 2 1492: The Hidden Half of the Globe
Chapter 3 Santo Domingo: The Columbus Jinx
Chapter 4 Dominican Republic: You Think There Are Still Indians?
Chapter 5 The Gulf Coast: Naked in the New World
Chapter 6 The Southwest: To the Seven Cities of Stone
Chapter 7 The Plains: Sea of Grass
Chapter 8 The South: De Soto Does Dixie
Chapter 9 The Mississippi: Conquistador's Last Stand
Chapter 10 Florida: Fountain of Youth, River of Blood
Chapter 11 Roanoke: Lost in the Lost Colony
Chapter 12 Jamestown: The Captain and the Naturals
Chapter 13 Plymouth: A Tale of Two Rocks
Technology Resources
Magnetic Poetry Sites
- Kids Kits Online: Magnetic Poetry site
- Choose A Kit: Magnetic Poetry site
- Shocked Poetry
Screencasts / Screencasting
- Screencast of Language Minilesson
- Definition of and Information on Screencasts: Wikipedia
- What is Screencasting: O'Reilly Digital Media
- How I Make A Screencast: Demogirl.com
Background Information on Twitter
Getting Started on Twitter: A Quick Guide -- Read this!
Language Today site
Wiki Information
Video: Wikis in Plain English by the Common Craft Show
Educause: 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis
General Resources
This is a packet of resources addressing classroom management put together by my friend and former colleague Dr. Peter Doolittle. Along with the Wong text and some of the other suggested titles on the course syllabi, it is a strong resource and reference tool for addressing the issue of classroom management.
ALA Banned Books Week: Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2009
NCTE Rationales for Teaching Challenged Books
Hispanic Heritage Month: September -- Resources 1 (FactMonster); Resources 2 (Scholastic)
Summer Institute Project: Genetics and The Holocaust
Citations and Works Cited Pages
APA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL Lab): Refer to this for your Historical Inquiry and Paul Harvey Projects
Citation Builder: NC State Library
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Student Membership
The National Day on Writing: October 20, 2009
Contributing to the National Gallery on Writing: Submit to the NCTE Gallery by Monday, Sept. 28.
NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts
NC DPI Standard Course of Study for English Language Arts
LearnNC K-12 Teaching and Learning from the UNC School of Education. Great for lesson plan and project ideas, and multimedia resources.
ECI 496: MSL Senior Seminar: New Literacies, Emerging Technologies, & Electronic Portfolios
Identity
- Web Identity and Social Networking Presentation: http://newlitinstitute.wikispaces.com/Social+Networking
- Download for dana boyd piece referenced in class: "Why Youth Heart Social Networking Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life”
- "Writing Ourselves Into Being" Reflections F09: This wiki page represents our thoughts, ideas, and action steps for shaping our digital footprint as professional educators.
- Current Web Identity Presentations F09: This wiki page provides a glimpse into our current online identities. Note: We will probably post these to SlideShare if PPT and CED Video Server if digital video.
DV Sound Bite Group Work
- DVF09 Group 1: Kimberley, Denise, Julie C., Christine
- DVF09 Group 2: Brian, Lauren, Michelle, Meghan
- DVF09 Group 3: Jena, Mary Ashley, Kayla, Kevin
- DVF09 Group 4: Casey, Julie T., Alex
- Example: Wisdom
- MSL Seniors F09-S10: Our Initial Ideas About New Literacies
- NLI Summer09: New Literacies? Thoughts in Progress
Readings to Inform DV Sound Bite #2
Read for Seminar 6, 10-16-09, and 7, 10-23-09:
TPCK (Mishra & Koehler, 2006)
Towards A New Learning Ecology (Spires et al, 2009) [Note: Download PDF from this page.]
Read / Review for Seminar 8, 10-30-09:
- Operationalizing TPACK: The Learning Activity Types Wiki
- Secondary English Language Arts Activity Types
New Lit Tech Tools
- Dr. Y's Cool Tool Offerings F09: This wiki page features links to the tools Dr. Y uses or mentions in class.
- Our New Lit Tech Tools F09: Use this wiki page to post links to your cool tool for your New Lit Tech Tool Presentations.
MSL Electronic Portfolio Resources
- Individual EP Workpages F09
- EP Examples F09
- MSL Senior Electronic Portfolio Rubric F09-S10: Download a copy of the rubric that includes specific directions for your artifact reflections and more.
- EP Reading for Seminar 5: The MAED English Education Electronic Portfolio Experience (download)
- Bethany's CED Electronic Portfolio Resources Website: http://ced.ncsu.edu/lt/portfolio.php
- Moodle Tutorial: http://ced.ncsu.edu/lt/workshops/moodle_portfolio.php
Final MSL Electronic Portfolios S10
Perspectives on Technology
- Learning to Appreciate Technology
- Having Our Say: Middle School Students Perspectives on Technology and Education
MSL STUDENT TEACHING SPRING 2010 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Important: All seminars will be held in Poe Hall (room to be determined) unless otherwise notified. Please mark your calendars and notice that the days of the week and times vary depending on the availability of the MSL faculty.
• Seminar 1: Wednesday, January 27, 4:30 p.m.—6:00 p.m. -- "What? So What? Now What?: Building Success in Student Teaching" (Dr. Pope & Dr. Beal)
• Seminar 2: Tuesday, February 16, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. -- “Career Day: Insights into Getting a Teaching Job” (Dr. Lee)
o Note: This seminar date will need to be flexible in order to coordinate with potential partners in Office of Career Planning and Human Resources with WCPSS.
• Seminar 3: Thursday, March 25, 5:00 pm – 6:30 p.m. -- **NOTICE REVISED DATE** -- MSL Electronic Portfolio Status Reports & Guest Speaker: Tech Possibilities in MS Classroom (Dr. Young)
o Note: There may be some optional workshops scheduled in the spring, but you are expected to be working regularly towards completion of your EP throughout the semester.
• Seminar 4: Thursday, April 15, 5:00 pm – 6:30 p.m. -- **NOTICE REVISED DATE**-- “Reflections On A Theme & Heading into the Final Stretch” (Dr. Young)
CED Panel Presentation: Teaching in a 1:1 Environment in Higher Ed, Dec. 16, 2009
This wiki page, Insights into Teaching in a 1:1 Environment, features some of my ideas in progress about teaching and preparing my students to teach in 1:1 computing environment, while also critically considering the importance of new literacies and emerging technologies.