Course Number: 41895 - Pre-AP High School English for New Teachers

Course Number: 41895 - Pre-AP High School English for New Teachers

Barrera, Victoria

Basinger, Aaron

Berry, Stojanka

Bowen, Stephen

Brodie, Nicole

Clifford, Karen

Cobb, Torrance

Collins-Russell, Amy

Deadrick, Lara

Espinoza, Angel

Ewulu, Onyinye

Gonzales, Scott

Guevara, Kayla

Gusbi, Nadau

Hero, Valeria

Kocian, Linda

Marks, Laura

Martinez, Lizeth

McKellar, Katie

Pearce, Jessica

Peters, Riley

Pollock, Kristine

Reitz, Cori

Rogers, Sierra

Savage, Julie

Scheers, Brittany

Sinski, Paul

Strange, Christi

Tamayo, Lauren

Van Horne, Rebecca

VanSelous, Teresa (Teri)

Below are ebook codes for all your workshops.

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable 11e: DGNX-NPIK

This code can be used 150 times.

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They Say / I Say, High School 3e with Readings: RPXN-UFEN

This code can be used 90 times.

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The Norton Shakespeare, 3e: HFKX-XELR

This code can be used 30 times

To redeem the code, visit: https://digital.wwnorton.com/shakespeare3?_ebook

Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions.

Best wishes,

Aimee

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Strategy Tips

Strategy Tip: Invest your student’s in summer reading. I made bookmarks with information about the book on one side, and a calendar with assignments on the other side. New York Times essay prompts.

Strategy Tip: Current events. learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plan

Strategy Tip: Poster sized sheets of newspaper, use markers, work in groups, learn more from each other, practice speaking, answer short questions using the newspaper.

Strategy Tip: Have students examine Beowulf and the boasts he made using literary elements. Copy one of Beowulf’s boasts and distribute to students for annotation. The best one to use is the one where he introduces himself to King Hrothgar!

Strategy Tip: Talk about the major themes to refresh their minds. The Last Spin, a short story novel. Cover in that story linear plot, short answer response, themes, thematically linked.

Strategy Tip: “Chopped: Essay Edition!” Essay 1 Many Dreamers often crash and burn after unfulfilling large goals. Use a student’s essay, cut it into pieces, and then students put it back together.

Strategy Tip: A Magic Weave. Cardstock paper. The Magic Weave is good for vocabulary terms, or anything you want them to study.

Strategy Tip: Van Horne, Rebecca Hard copy journal, road map. This helps with annotations. Click the name to get the link.

Strategy Tip: Nikki Brodie () Romeo & Juliet, Anticipatory Guide. Hook students with interesting topics to them ie. lying to your parents, crashing someone’s party, suicide. Students love this and immediately are invested in the play. https://docs.google.com/document/d/126WL_Vn_3vI8uYzSu4oOaS0iu1kKNBjm-U6QDZTr6kU/edit

**** I love the Article of the Week by Kelly Gallagher. I pick one article a week to have students read outside of class. They have to write a one page response to the questions asked at the end of the article, which are already on the articles. I always do class discussions about the articles and the kids get so involved! http://www.kellygallagher.org/article-of-the-week/

Strategy Tip: Murder Mystery game. Detective google voice.

Strategy Tip: Revision and Editing Instructions. Essay Prompt- Persuasive. The students revise to add specific strategies to vary sentences. They also highlight specific things things that should be present in a persuasive essay. The instructions make grading very

Strategy Tip: Use competition in the classroom. Use grammar games. Teachers can keep score all year long. There is a baton race. Have students stand up at the board. Split the whiteboard up in 4. Give students four sentences.

Students have one sentence they have to edit, once they are done with that one sentence they pass the baton and another person has to edit a different sentence.

Strategy Tip: http://chompchomp.com/ Grammar Bytes!

Strategy Tip: Sentence variety. Show students a Snow White story. Ask how many words are in that sentence and what three word each sentence begins with. Show them other Snow White stories that are designed for different younger audiences. Each of these sentences will begin with a different, consecutive letter of the alphabet. They will have to create their own story, which will also begin with a different, consecutive letter of the alphabet.(Kayla Guevara)

I also use NoRedInk.com it is a website/app they can use to help with grammar skills. Great thing to have when they have extra time after an assignment.

Strategy Tip: After students take their essays, we identify the areas where they are struggling. Then students are sent to that specific area for study. This helps students not have to repeat what they already know. Use data to efficiently help your students.

Strategy Tip: Pair the following texts: “Mask of the Red Death,” Poe, The Seventh Ages of Man,Shakespeare. Prospero has seven rooms with individual color schemes. The Seventh Ages of Man goes through the seven stages of man.Create a visual presentation of the poem (poster). APP- Remind. Allows communication with students and parents.

Strategy Tip: When kids are bad with word choice. The goal is to increase the students vocabulary. After the first essay ask the students to see which words are repeated. They are given gravestone paper cut outs, and those words are labeled as dead words. Then they look for higher learning vocabulary words. The kids enjoy this, and the visual that this gives them. Added tip: Have a funeral for those words.

Strategy Tip: Journal writing in one-subject notebook. Purchase about 30 one-subject notebooks when they are on sale, number each of the journals and assign students the number. Make sure that students indicate what period they are in, but not their name. This allows students to remain anonymous, but they can respond to one another and see what others have written. The teacher knows who each student is, but the students don’t. In classes that are not even, be sure that at least 2-4 students are assigned to each journal. Feel free to reassign students as necessary and try to pair stronger writers with weaker ones.

Strategy Tip: Quote of the day and idiom of the day. Great with ELL students!

Strategy Tip: NewsELA https://newsela.com/ Fun current events, it will send an article of the day. Give lower level reading students an article that is closer to their reading level.

Strategy Tip: Mini-Socratic seminar. Students choose two of three themes, group students, and allow them to create posters after their socratic seminar.APPS- Too Noisy, TEKS App, History Now App

Strategy Tip: Pre-Ap challenge. This is when your advanced students are finished with their work. Stay away from busy work to keep your students challenged. At the beginning of the year have 10-20 symbols to look at the text differently. Make a poster to allow students to see the symbols on a daily basis. Give students 1-2 symbols to work on after they are done with their work, be sure to specify what you want them to do.

Strategy Tip: TKAM book teachers were struggling to relate. For the trial scene to make it more interesting they found a screenplay and students were responsible for acting out the scene. 12-15 characters had speaking parts, choose those students who are great readers and more animated for larger roles. The remaining students were the jury members. Ask higher level thinking questions to the jury members. After the evidence the jury would decide a verdict. Rearrange the classroom like a courtroom, teacher is the judge. Takes 2-3 days to do this activity. This was done in place of reading the trial scene in the text. Students are given a seating assignment when they get to class. Jury members are required to complete exit tickets at the end of class.

Website- Kahoot.it https://kahoot.it/#/ Simplyscripts.com http://www.simplyscripts.com/

Strategy Tip: Take 1 or 2 scenes from a novel and have students rewrite it in current language. This is especially helpful for Shakespeare. Students can bring in props. Modern day language with some classic vocabulary terms.

Could also record students acting out these scripts and allow them to critique their own performance.

Strategy Tip: Short Answer Response (SAR). Use a STAAR prompt and acronym A-C-E. A- Answer, C- Concrete E- Evidence. Another document that is helpful is Transition, Lead-in, Quote (TLQ) Ratiocination to go through the SAR. Allow them to look through the SAR and find the T- Transition L-Lead-In Q- Quote. Allows students to understand visually what they are missing.

Strategy Tip:When students are done with a significant piece of writing. Clocking Activity worksheet can be done in a small group of 4. Students are looking for answers to basic questions. Peer Editing in groups. After this activity, break up the essay with highlighted sections, using ratiocination, to visualize essay errors.

Strategy Tip: Speed dating activity. Students are given a line of prompts to work through. A verbal quick response

This is a great strategy to get students to think

Strategy Tip: Roll a Character activity. Discuss the different types of archetypes. This gives students perspective about how the archetypal hero can actually be the antagonist. One of the problems our students encounter is how to start fictional stories, this activity allows him to start a story with a character. They get to draw their character, choose two obstacles the main character faces, and then they go through the same process to discover an antagonist. The Hero’s Journey, there is a TED talk on this. http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/Workshop-stuff/Joseph-Campbell-Hero-Journey.htm

Strategy Tip: ”Boundin” Pixar short film in which all aspects of the Hero’s Journey are presented in a 5 minute film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x3_YvFD_Bs

Strategy Tip: Short stories- “Crossing” by Mark Slouka, “Powder” Tobias Wolf

Strategy Tip: Elements of Fiction Graphic http://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/13-Elements-of-Fiction-with-Graphics.pdf

Strategy Tip: APP: Padlet. It can be used as a parking lot for all of the information that they have gone over. Students can use this as an interactive notebooks. Students can also post in the app itself. Padlet can be accessed on phones, tablets, and computers. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_KzIeN2fz_BVCQhKgVUrS_bv8RZMzHOEMPG2ayW0gQ - instructions for creating a Padlet. FYI...Padlet is useful on mobile devices, but it works much better in desktop format. Teri VanSelous

Strategy Tip: Google Lit Trips Students can also use google earth to create their own lit trips. This is also a good opportunity to have students complete a scavenger hunt by having them find certain items in google earth.

Strategy Tip: *Jing, convert movies into short clips! See this link and many more on The Digital Teacher section of Mr. Brown’s website.

Strategy Tip: TodaysMeet.com, have class discussions online and save the transcript of the discussion in a .pdf.

Strategy Tip: *****Calibre. Convert those e-books and workbooks into .pdf files!

Strategy Tip: Need newspapers for your research units? These archives go all the way back to the 1800’s.