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Feminist Lens Text Set

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As someone who is quite fond of applying critical lenses to texts and movies, I decided to create a text set to help students learn how to apply these lenses. I chose to focus on a feminist lens for this text set but others could be applied as well; reader response, for example, can be used with all literary works, but a critical race lens, and psychoanalytic lens, among others, may also be applied to some of these texts. Given the topic of the text set and themes of some of the texts, I imagine this would be most appropriate for a diverse 11th or 12th grade high school class. The main reading in this set is a novel by Khaled Hosseini calle d A Thousand Splendid Suns . I went back and forth quite a bit between this and Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa, but wanted a title with a male author to use in conjunction with various Wisconsin State Standards that ask students to question the author’s life and background and how it may influence the story or characters in the story. Both of these ...
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Technology in the ELA Classroom

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 As a future English Language Arts teacher I don’t believe there is a single topic in ELA that doesn’t directly involve, relate to, or rely on literacy in some way. With the past year’s challenges in education the use of technology has played a vital role in classrooms across the world. I was recently introduced to multimodal compositions as a means of responding to literature and texts in place of the traditional, albeit sometimes boring, essays we are so accustomed to. This is a relatively new concept to me and one that I sometimes struggle with. To respond to texts, students can choose to create digital collages and poetry, book talks and trailers, infographics, or interactive timelines, the choices are limited only by your creativity. I’ve found that, for me, creating something other than a traditional essay requires a deeper understanding of the text you’ve just read because there’s usually less space to make your point. Multimodal compositions also provide a more engaging w...
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Writing Coach Work

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In my limited time as a writing coach I’ve had some really positive interactions with the students I’m working with, but not many opportunities to read their work. For the first set of papers, I believe we were instructed to provide feedback on in-text citations. This was relatively simple, and to be honest I was pretty relieved because I realized that I didn’t feel very confident in providing feedback. Prior to this class I always focused on things like grammar but now knew that I wanted to look at higher order concerns, and I was nervous about how to do that. I received two other papers that were variations of the standard book report. I feel like I still focused on things like sentence structure but used the rubric as a guide for my feedback, so I was able to make some comments about topics that were missed or confusing. First and foremost, I think student writers need their teachers to teach them how to write including structure, organization, main ideas, thesis, etc. I also thin...
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