Public Speaking – Teaching English Language Arts

Train Essays and Pie Paragraphs

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 by admin

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Seeing is Believing Sometimes, when students SEE how essays work, they can write their own with more confidence and competence. One thing that has worked for me is using colors, metaphors, and formulae. USING COLORS: If you can locate colored pencils or highlighters in different colors, enough for three colors…

Gaining Cultural Insight: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

August 20, 2019July 30, 2019 by admin

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Gaining Cultural Insight This opening of the school year assignment, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? is a novel way to invite students to write a narrative essay based on two different books or literary works. It also can be adapted for history, science or math classes. Rather than focus on…

Advertisement Analysis Assignment

October 28, 2018April 29, 2020 by admin

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Persuasion - Advertisements One way to introduce students to the power of persuasion and to show them evidence of logical fallacies is to have them analyze advertisements in print and digital media. You can have students write and post their analysis or present their findings in a speech using visual…

POETRY-African American History Month Project

February 15, 2018September 28, 2018 by admin

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Celebrate Cultures February is a great time to incorporate an oral language component into your lessons and invite students to memorize and recite a poem by an African American poet. This assignment lists several to get you started. To increase confidence and decrease apprehension, give the students the grading criteria…

POETRY Notebook – Product and Performance

April 8, 2017August 10, 2017 by admin

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Poetry Notebook Looking for a way to engage students to create a POETRY-Notebook that showcases their learning about poetry and other English Language Arts skills and completing a product/performance assignment that reflects your instruction to meet COMMON CORE STANDARDS. Here's a link to student handout to show how they can use Poetry T.I.M.E.…

Oral Book Report Prep

January 10, 2017 by admin

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Practice together, then assign students oral reports on independent reading books. Adapt the handout for a whole class or small group assignment and have student complete the form based on a book the class has just finished reading. (Great way to review a book before an end-of-book assignment.) Then use similar…

Celebrating Collaboration with Art, Music, Dance and Dramatic Readings from On Zion’s Hill

March 9, 2016August 15, 2016 by admin

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Celebrating ON ZION'S HILL: A Novel (2015) To celebrate Black History Month, The Bishop’s School hosted a collaborative event with art, music dance and dramatic readings from On Zion’s Hill, a novel by former chair of the Bishop’s English Department, Anna J. Small Roseboro. On Zion’s Hill is a nostalgic…

Values Influence Reading, Writing and Viewing

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by admin

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One way you can have your students step back a moment before they begin looking at articles, viewing video clips, and writing summaries and abstracts about controversial issues is to have a short presentation on values and look at how what we value, think is important to and for us, influences our behavior…

Career Planning

January 1, 2016December 24, 2015 by admin

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Quit Now or Stay in School? Spring term is good time to offer students the opportunity to consider why continuing their education will expand their future choices. Here's a sample Career Research Project I've used with Sophomores. Here's link to an assignment that requires similar thinking and is adaptable for eighth graders. The…

Prepare in the Fall for Spring Assessments

August 20, 2015September 8, 2015 by admin

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Practice Debates ⇒Argumentative Essays Meeting Common Core State Standards is not the only reason to have students learn to think about claims, reasons, counter-aguments, and evidence. The four major assessments students will face in the near future ask them to show they know to read deeply and write an organized…

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