Updated Remainder of Course Schedule

Tentative Schedule for remainder of Winter 2014 (updated 1/27/14):

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) and Mini-lessons (Alexie 1)

Week 9

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

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

Week 10

3/10—Mini-lessons (Yang 1, 2, and 3)

3/12 —Mini-lessons (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.