Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Tentative Schedule for Winter 2014

Tentative Schedule for Winter 2014:

Week 1
1/6—Introductions, Syllabi, Assignments, Expectations, etc…

1/8— Discussion of Introduction Letters and “Discussion as a Way of Teaching” (Handout)

Week 2
1/13— Reading: English Language Arts Common Core State Standards available at www.corestandards.org (Please focus on the Reading Standards for Literature and the Reading Standards for Informational Text

1/15— Reading: Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Chapter 2

Week 3
1/20—No Class, Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday (Observed)

1/22—Reading: Peter McLaren’s “Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts” available at http://cidocstudents2012.wikispaces.com/file/view/Critical+Pedagogy+Major+Concepts.pdf

Week 4
1/27—Reading: Duncan-Andrade and Morrell’s “Critical Pedagogy and Popular Culture in an Urban Secondary English Classroom” (Handout)

1/29—What is Social Justice? Why is it important for our classrooms?
            Reading: Individual Exploration

Week 5
2/3—Reading: Langer’s “A Response-Based Approach to Reading Literature” available at http://www.albany.edu/cela/reports/langer/langerresponsebased.pdf

2/5—Reading: Tovani’s “I Read it, but I don’t get it”

Week 6
2/10—Creating Lesson Plans, Reading: TPA guidelines (Handout) AND Differentiated Instruction in E/LA, Reading: Individual Exploration

2/12—Reading: Gallagher’s “Readicide”

Week 7
2/17—No Class, Presidents’ Day

2/19—Individual Meetings to Discuss Unit Plan Progress

Week 8
2/24—Book Talks (8 students)

2/26—Book Talks (4 students) *Please note that class will begin at 3:30pm this day

Week 9
3/3—Mini-lessons (Alexie 1 and 2, Poe 1)

3/5—Mini-lessons (Poe 2, Shakespeare 1 and 2)

Week 10

3/10—Mini-lessons (Shankespeare 3, Yang 1 and 2)

3/12 —Mini-lessons (Yang 3, Wiesel 1 and 2)

Week 11

3/17—Unit Plans Due, Discussion of Unit Plans, Course Evaluations


*Learning Letters Due to your blog by Friday, 3/21, at noon.

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