Inquiry I: Ghetto Life 101, Remorse and The Danger of a Single Story
I first heard Remorse while living in a cabin in the Pacific North West. In those days Seattle's NPR station, KPLU, was my link to the world. I remember where I was (standing in the kitchen) and what I...
View ArticleTeaching the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Other textsEsther Pearl Watson's Romeo and JulietGraphic Novel version of Romeo and JulietConnections to Popular Culture:Videos:Film comparisons:
View ArticleWarriors Don't Cry
Below are some links - one lesson plan and few texts - to use with Warriors Don't Cry. Lesson PlanSome good ideas for teaching the novel from Rethinking SchoolsLittle Rock Nine: 50 Years LaterNice...
View ArticleNCTE 2011
"I wish they all could be California Girls": Pre-service teachers explorations into textual representations of gender.weblink:"I wish they all could be California Girls": Pre-service teachers...
View ArticleClassroom community: A nice clip from Babe
A student played this in class yesterday for a presentation on conflict resolution. Not to over simplify, but it might also help us think about classrooms as communities of practice and how teachers...
View ArticleUB Pre-Service Teachers' Presentations at NCTE 2011
Below are a few University at Buffalo English Education graduates' presentations from National Council of Teachers of English 2011 conference in Chicago. These research projects were conducted while...
View ArticleTeaching To Kill a Mockingbird: White Saviors
I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird this semester with my students in LAI 513. I picked the title because it is still widely taught in schools and many of my former students have commented over the years...
View ArticleTeaching To Kill a Mockingbird: MLK
I don't remember reading much of Martin Luther King's work as a high school student. Certainly we read the I Have A Dream speech - and I remember the movement to have his birthday declared a national...
View ArticleTeaching To Kill a Mockingbird: Segregation
It seems to me that segregation is typically studied in schools as an investigation of an historical artifact, something that was terrible and that happened in the past....
View ArticleTeaching Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"
I have used Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," in the classroom for many years now. As a high school teacher I found that the poem provided students with a meaningful way to explore gender and related issues in...
View ArticleAll depends on the skin you're livin' in.
We spent some time talking about Trayvon Martin in class last night. We looked at the incident itself and coverage in the media. NPR has quite a few reports that would work well in a classroom. This...
View ArticleImani All Mine
ThemesSpiritualityMatriarchy and PatriarchyImages of African Americans in the book and Popular Culture An Open Letter To Tyler Perry Ghetto Life 101RacismStereotypesExtended...
View ArticlePrincesses and Images of Gender in Young Adult Literature
This came to me from WIMP.com:I have to say, I had a few tears welling up, thinking this was not made by DISNEY, then of course I was up in arms, as usual and started thinking about how I would use...
View ArticleTeaching Of Mice and Men in an Inquiry Based ELA Classroom
I keep thinking about Pound's quote today:"Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery, is of little worth.”While talk of teaching as an art has always made me a bit nervous...
View ArticleImages of the American Dream in Of Mice and Men
One of my favorite poets, Philip Levine, won the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award the other day (more here). That got me thinking about one of my favorite poems of his, They Feed They...
View ArticleStephen Krashen on the Common Core on At The Chalk Face Podcast
At The Chalk Face is a great podcast focusing on education. This is an episode on the Common Core (you'll have to suffer through 30 seconds of commercials) and is, in my opinion, one of the best...
View ArticleENG 694: This I Believe Podcasts
This I Believe essays ENG 694 students @ Buffalo StateThe Teaching of LiteratureChelsie Foley ZamniakMs. HoneyI could probably share a dozen stories about good, no GREAT teachers I have had, but I will...
View ArticleInquiries into identity: Growing up
This is a great piece from This American Life, helpful when exploring issues related of identity, growing up, relationships, the importance of reflecting... I used it often when I taught 12th graders....
View ArticleLiterature and Classroom Discussion
The People Yes," Carl Sandburg Classroom Discussion I The People Yes," Carl Sandburg Classroom Discussion II'
View ArticleRadio Stories
Follow this link to listen to some of the Radio Stories students have made over the years.
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