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=**UNIT 2: Leading Classroom Talk: Engaging Poetry**=

//Weeks at a glance://

 * Week 3, 9/10
 * Week 3, 9/12
 * Week 4, 9/15
 * Week 4, 9/17
 * Week 5, 9/22
 * Week 5, 9/24
 * Week 6, 9/29
 * Week 6, 10/1
 * Week 7, 10/6

**Agen****da:**
Business:
 * Sam Caughlan, re: Research Project and Student Advisory Group
 * Sheila - pix!

Curricular Map Revision Workshop

Introduction of Unit Two "Leading Classroom Talk", "Poetry", "Video"
 * Options for "Leading a Discussion"
 * Ideas for "Leading a Discussion", Small Group Inquiry, Teaching Notebook...
 * Videos 5 and 3 http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/collections/quest/collections/sites/divans-hutchinson_yvonne/
 * **What do you notice about...discussion? content? using video?**
 * **How does this connect to Form=Audience + Purpose?**
 * **Wiki post by Friday at 5 pm:** Watch episode 5 again, and also watch episode 3. Reading at least two other posts, discuss what you think it means to lead a discussion? What does discussion look like, sound like, feel like? How will students know when they are engaged in discussion? What kinds of situations are easily or oftentimes overlooked as discussion? Why? Please explain your thinking and provide examples when possible.

Video Resources (Great "Leading A Discussion" material!!!) > http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/insideteaching/quest/collections.html
 * **Inside teaching**

//Yvonne Hutchinson// - A Friend of their Minds (Large group discussion??) //Joan Cone// - Constructing Urban Students as Achievers (Literature circles??) //Renee Moore// - Culturally Engaged Instruction (Teacher-centered, even monologic instruction.... grammar activity) //Marcia Pincus// - Double Double, Toil and Trouble (a variety of Shakespeare-related lessons) > http://www.learner.org/resources/series178.html#jump1
 * Small and large group...Introducing Shakespeare (refers to Shakespeare Alive) //Elena Aguilar// - An East Oakland Odyssey (Literature circles on HOMS??)
 * Organizing groups
 * Routines
 * Challenge each other
 * Grammar exercise
 * Discussion
 * Language
 * Grammar
 * Shakespeare Alive
 * Acting
 * http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/
 * **Annenberg - The Expanding Canon**

Assignments:
Wiki post due Friday at 5 pm Read McCann's Talking in Class Come with Teaching Notebook and Small Group Inquiry ideas and questions Try uploading your picture to the wikispace...maybe start with the People page on the Cohort wiki!

 =**Week 4**= =**9/15**= Updates to wikis, syllabus, Unit 2 tab... Check out our blog! I've posted feedback from discussion 3...would love to hear your thoughts! http://te407section1.blogspot.com/
 * Agenda**

McCann - Talking in Class Three artifacts..Discuss in small groups, adding new terminology to the google doc:
 * Dialogue Concepts and Terms (Google Doc) http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d5df4np_21gsqvb8ff&hl=en
 * Juzwik and Caughlan's powerpoint
 * Nystrand's Monologic/Dialogic handout
 * Caughlan's Glossary of Terms

For discussion:
 * 1) What kinds of questions do these artifacts provoke?
 * 2) How did you discuss these in your groups? What terms would you use to describe the discussion that took place?

Writing Workshop
 * Continue with artifacts and google doc
 * Teaching Notebook Workshop time (Artifact 1 due next Monday!)...small group inquiry brainstorming...leading a discussion planning
 * I take some time to get to know each person individually while the workshop is occurring.

Read Langer and Assigned Poetry Reading Continue updating "Dialogue" Google Doc == =9/17=
 * Assignments**:
 * Courtney-Smith and Angelotti's "To Search for Enlightenment"...Armock through Harkness
 * Bintz and Henning-Shannon's "Using Poems for Multiple Voices"...Hedrick through Lund
 * Athanases' "Performing the Drama of the Poem"...Mamassian through Purcell
 * Brewbaker's "Fifty-Five Teachers"...Saidoo through Whiting
 * Agenda**:

Curricular Map Feedback //Standards Documents://
 * [[file:ELA11-14open1_142201_7.pdf]]
 * http://www.ncte.org/about/over/standards
 * [[file:ELAGLCE_140483_7.pdf]]

Writing Workshop
 * Small Group Inquiry Group Formation and small group work time...leading a discussion planning...teaching notebook artifact
 * I take some time to get to know each person individually while the workshop is occurring.

Due:
NOTES ON GOOGLE DOC...Do you have all the dialogic terms and concepts from the beginning of unit two written down and circulating in your head??? We're going to need them starting Monday!!!

Read Beach & Marshall Bring Poetry and Langer articles for discussion
 * Teaching Notebook Artifact 1**: If you haven't, **READ THE ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION**. this is what will guide my grading. please send me any urls before class on monday, and as for binders (or any other big bulky item)...wait to bring those to class on wednesday. we will have a **TEACHING NOTEBOOK WORKSHOP** in class on WEDNESDAY. everyone will prepare to share, in class, any and all pieces of their teaching notebook. so, for monday, **EVERYONE SHOULD SEND ME A VERY BRIEF (1/2 page) DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK.**.please send this via email. you can put "Teaching Notebook" in the subject line. i will look for an email from everyone before class begins on monday.

 =Week 5= =9/22= Beach & Marshall – Teaching Literature in the Secondary School Discussion Leaders: Whiting and Purcell

Jigsaw Discussion:
 * Langer – Envisioning Literature
 * Poetry Articles
 * In Part 1 of our discussion, participate in your "Expert Group" to accomplish two tasks:
 * 1) Identify the key concepts in your poetry article.
 * 2) Discuss how this poetry article relates to envisionment.


 * In Part 2 of our discussion. participate in mixed groups to:
 * 1) Share key concepts of each groups discussion.
 * 2) How can this discussion inform our thinking about leading class discussions? Draw from any of the course work, readings, disscussions we've engaged thus far...Which if any discussion concepts/terms are useful to you? Why?

//* Updating google doc along the way...//


 * DUE: Teaching Notebook Artifact 1**

 =9/24= Johnson & Johnson – Critical Thinking through Structured Controversy







Discussion Leaders: Johnson and Armock Teaching Notebook Workshop

Due:
Prompt: **Demonstrating that you are participating in a discussion** (ie refer to others' work, ideas, questions), **use at least 2 of the terms we generated together today in class and 3 new terms to identify examples of these terms in your peers' teaching** (both Monday and Wednesday's discussions). In addition to matching terms with examples, **describe why** the example demonstrates the term or concept. Feel free to ask questions or challenge the terms and examples as well.
 * Wiki post by Sunday at 5 pm**

10 Ways to Analyze a Children's Book Multiple Voices/Genres: Gillis Creative Maladjustment: Kohl How to teach Controversial Texts: Dawson and Salas YLA Resource List
 * Readings for Monday:**

This is the book list Cathleen Clara handed out at a previous NCTE-SA meeting. [| Reluctant Readers List.doc]

 =Week 6= =9/29= Guest Speaker: Cathleen Clara Breakfast! Small Group Inquiry Work  =10/1= Burke - Chapter 9: Teaching Thinking in English Class Discussion Leaders: Ferguson and Mullins Breakfast Business: Trudy with Placement Info: 11:45
 * Revised Curriculum Maps due Monday before class**. Please post...
 * DUE: Post to wiki Revised Curricular Map and Reflection**
 * Becoming Teachers (and what that means for being a student this year...grades and deadlines...Professionalism)
 * Teaching Notebook feedback (T of C, wikipage, Incompletes)
 * Additional Resources:**

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Hi Everyone! Last weekend I went to the technology conference and learned about a lot of cool websites and programs that would be useful in the classroom. ======

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-The featured speaker was Marilyn Western (2008 MACUL Technology Teacher of the year) who is a teacher in Mount Pleasant. She gave us her [|Top Ten Web Sites for K-12]. This link has all of them listed from one to ten and contains the links to each resource. ======

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-Here is a link to her personal website which is also very useful: [|Technology Tips for Classroom Teachers] ======

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-The next session I attended was called [|Top Ten Tools of Web 2.0] by Susan Roustan. This link contains the powerpoint that she presented at the conference. ======

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-The second morning session I attended was called Creating an Educational Social Network for your Classroom. I learned how to use [|ning] to create a network for a classroom. One cool feature is that you can make it private so that only you and your students are part of the network. Also, when you use it for educational purposes you can contact ning and they will remove the ads! ====== -The afternoon workshop that I attended was Storytelling in the Digital Age: Creativity for the classroom. I learned how to use [|photo story 3] to create a digital story using pictures, music and narrative. Photo story 3 only works with pcs..the mac equivalent is imovie.

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*Hope that you all find these links useful. If you have any questions about the sites or the conference in general, let me know! - Amanda Carlisi ======

 To Do: **1) Ning! post due by Sunday at 5 pm**: Investigate the **three lesson plans** posted by your peers for our class discussions thus far. In doing so, consider **Form = Audience + Purpose**. What **forms** have our discussions taken? How do these forms match up with the pedagogical **purposes** of the lessons? What impacts do these choices have on our **audience**? Our colleagues have done some nice work! Now, please give specific examples of how we can **increase the connectivity** between form, audience, and purpose. What adjustments can we make as we move forward in order to make our pedagogical choices even more attuned to our audience and purposes?

http://msu-enged-cohort08-01.ning.com/

 =Week 7= 10/6 Business
 * 2) Arrange and meet with your Small Inquiry Group**. Begin organizing for and planning your proposal and annotated bibliography. Who do you need to schedule appointments with? What kinds of back-up plans do you need to put in place? How highly connected is your planning in terms of form, audience, and purpose? Planning backwards, what kind of presentation makes sense for your final exam?
 * Student Advisory Updates (details posted and summarized in class)
 * Technology Conference Update (details posted and summarized in class)
 * Jeremy and Ning!-ing...
 * Student workshops (technology, resources, activities, other?)

Juzwik: Our Ithacas Discussion Leaders: Carlisi and McLean

Harry Potter clip: Dialogic? Role playing: Going into your internship...Greeting Mentors and Students

Read Applebee's //Curriculum as Conversation//
 * To Do**: