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Sympathy and Caged Bird by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Maya Angelou

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:22:06 +0000

This poetry resource includes a handout that contains lined versions of the poems, guiding questions and graphic organizers regarding theme, imagery, symbolism, and tone; and writing assignments to compare, contrast, and interpret allusion and intertextuality.

PowerPoint contains essential vocabulary and literary terms, historical context, discussion questions, three writing assignments.

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Teaching Personification with ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’

admin — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:08:24 +0000

When teaching a text, I make sure that I have an anchor skill that I want my students to practice while reading. I find evaluating text structure to be one of the more difficult standards to teach, but I also find There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury to be not only an engaging story with lots of opportunity to review personification, but also a model text for students to analyze how the structure of a piece of writing can be as deliberate as the description.

During the reading, I encourage my students to identify examples of personification, and also to analyze how the individual uses of personification culminate to create an extended metaphor. How does the personification at the beginning of the story compare that at the end? What commentary is Bradbury trying to make about machines and humankind, and why is personification the most appropriate literary device to make this point?

I have a quick game of dictionary races at the beginning of the PowerPoint to pre-teach some of the vocabulary. 25 words is a bit much; however, I have a lot of ELL students who need quite of a bit of background built with regards to vocabulary, and since they’re racing, it doesn’t really take too long to go through them all.

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If you’re looking for a non-fiction text to pair with the reading, there is a short article from 2015 in The London Sun about the silhouettes left around the city after the atomic blast.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/155844/the-shadows-of-hiroshima-haunting-imprints-of-people-killed-by-the-blast/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzhlU8rXgHc

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Question Words and Sentence Starters

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:35:46 +0000

I teach a lot of ELL students and one of the biggest obstacles for many of them to showcase what they know is that they struggle to understand what the question is asking. After that hurdle is surmounted, many still lack confidence to use the correct sentence starters and transition words.

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I pair this PowerPoint with a foldable for our interactive notebooks. I often have my students make them from scratch, as pictured below; but if you’re pressed for time or not too crafty, then print out the PDF.

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