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DrForman: Kate Baker on Giving Students' Meaningful Choice
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Engaging students in reading, writing, discussion, thinking, and classroom technology. Sunday, January 12, 2014. Kate Baker on Giving Students' Meaningful Choice. The conference for English leaders at #NCTE13 in Boston. I had the pleasure of moderating a presentation by Gordon Hultberg. Pradlfan about student choice. I didn't know her at the time, but Kate Baker. Click Kate Baker's blog. Or see my comments below in red. Good point, Kate! The session prompted participants to examine the ways in which we o...
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DueDates - College Threshold: Conformity
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Assignment Due Dates and Calendar. Rman’s english iv. English IV 2011-2012 2nd Semester. Feb 6 Data Essay. Begin data mining: census, interviews, surveys. Data: Census, surveys,. Mr Martinez on Weebly.com. Blog due about data, conformity, Kafka. Kafka to p.953. Kafka to p.960. Kafka to p.965. Kafka to p.970. Kafka finish reading to p.977. Graphic novels, Blog. Kafka essay due Sunday Mar. 4. 7 3rd Qtr ends. Last blog of 3rd quarter. Create a free website. Create your own free website.
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Forman Arts: May 2013
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Live theater, music, art museums, literature, and poetry- through a teacher's eyes. Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The Royale, a new play at the Kirk Douglas Theater. Click to hear interviews) is a new play by Marco Ramirez, which has its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City. It's the story of a black boxer fighting a white boxing champion around 1910. This play is a good pairing with Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Taper), Raisin in the Sun. Kirk Douglas), Joe Turner. About the great migratio...
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Forman Arts: April 2013
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Live theater, music, art museums, literature, and poetry- through a teacher's eyes. Sunday, April 28, 2013. Eurydice by Sandra Ruhl. Welcome to a blog on personal encounters with live theater, books, and art. Let’s get started. Last night I saw the play Eurydice. At A Noise Within Theater. Set in the 1960's with all actors costumed like Secret Service agents trying to prevent an assassination). Updated versions of well-known plays make them resonate with today. But Eurydice. Or Shakespeare's King Lear.
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Forman Arts: Resolution: Go to Art Museums!
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Live theater, music, art museums, literature, and poetry- through a teacher's eyes. Saturday, May 4, 2013. Resolution: Go to Art Museums! A year ago, I resolved to go to more Art Museums. For a while I did go, but lately I count that it's only twice a year. But I live in the middle of Los Angeles, with easy access on weekends, when the traffic is clear, to The Getty, LACMA, The Norton Simon, so many more! So- Today I walked across the street to LACMA. Would you call those culture or sub-culture? Enduring...
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College Threshold: Conformity - Home
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This website is for English IV to help us as a class investigate conformity. We will use literature, surveys, census data, and interviews. Students will post a series of blogs, will create a weebly website, and write a 3-5 page essay. They will also give short presentations of their findings and their work. Create a free website. Create your own free website. Start your own free website. A surprisingly easy drag and drop site creator. Learn more.
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Literature - College Threshold: Conformity
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Trace the theme of conformity in the following works. Consider the cost of conforming, of not conforming, (& also of habituation.). Describe the pressures to conform by her mother, poverty, society, gender roles, Lady Catherine, Charlotte, English society in 1812. Cost of conforming: Cost of not conforming:. Describe the pressures to conform from Claudius and Gertrude, from the society, from himself, Danish royal society in the 16th century. Cost of conforming: Cost of not conforming:. Describe the press...
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DrForman: March 2014
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Engaging students in reading, writing, discussion, thinking, and classroom technology. Saturday, March 1, 2014. ENGAGING STUDENT VOICES WITH TECHNOLOGY. ENGAGING STUDENT VOICES WITH TECHNOLOGY. California Assoc. of Independent Schools) Campbell Hall March 2014. A version of this talk was delivered at NCTE 2013 in Boston.). How can we use technology to boost student engagement? What new tech tools engage students AND make students better readers and writers? Why are students engaged? A kind of social media.
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Census - College Threshold: Conformity
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Look at 2010 census data. For your zip code to investigate education, socioeconomics, and occupation for different age. Cohorts in your neighborhood. You will be asked to draw your own. Conclusions from this data and include that data in your final essay, website, and presentation. 1 Use Census Data by clicking to the right:. Http:/ 2010.census.gov/2010census/. 2 Use factfinder census data. By clicking to the right: http:/. A Watch this YouTube video: http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Create a free website.
