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Assignment: Have Monster, Tangerine, and The
Arrival read by September 16th.
Week 1: What kind
of teacher am I?
8/19: Introductions, teaching naked, finding the right
room and other anxiety dreams
Assignment:
1)
Join NCTE and IATE.
NCTE membership is all done on-line; for IATE, download and print the
form, fill it in, and give it to me in class.
2) Read "Identity and Desire in the Classroom" by Mark Bracher
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/reserve/files/coats/ENG%20495/bracher_coats.pdf
If this link does not work, make sure you are on
campus or connected through the VPN client. If it still doesn't work, go
to the English department website, click on Digital Reserve Readings in
the little box on the left, then click on the link to the reserves,
click on coats, click on ENG 495, and then click on bracher_coats.
8/21: free psychoanalysis of your teaching personality
Assignment: 1)
Journal Prompt: Sort out your current values as discussed in Bracher's
article in your journal. Pay attention to what might be your personal
pitfalls.
2) Read Paulo Freire's "The
Banking Concept of Education"
Week 2 Who do I think
my students are?
8/26: discuss Friere
Assignment:
Read Chapters 1 and 7 of
Using YA Lit in the
English Classroom.
Why should I be teaching what I teach?
8/28: discuss issues of canonicity, standards,
literature, literacy, student choice
and whatnot
Assignment:
1) Journal Prompt: Who are students today? What do they need?
What kinds of literature do you value? Is there likely to be a gap
between what you value and what the majority of your students value? If
so, what role do you want to play in the traditional canon vs. student
interest drama? How will you justify my choices? (Okay, obviously a lot.
Pick and choose.)
2) Read Chapter 2 of Using YA
Lit in the English Classroom.
Week 3: What should I
be teaching?
9/2: Discuss qualities of literature and ISBE Standards
for Literature.
Assignment:
Read Chapter 3 of Using YA
Lit in the English Classroom
How do I teach literature?
9/4: Begin talking about the nitty-gritty of what you do
every day.
Assignment: 1)
Read Chapter 4 of Using
YA Lit in the English Classroom.
2) Journal Prompt: What are your non-negotiables, that is, your
absolutely must-teach things, when it comes to literature? How did you
learn (to value) these things? How best to teach them, do you think?
Week 4:
9/9: writing about literature. how to do it. how not to do it. how
to write assignments so that your students can do it without resorting
to buying the papers off the internet.
how to read like a writer.
Assignment: Read Chapters 5 and 8 of
Using YA Lit in the English
Classroom
9/11: relating linguistics issues to the
study of literature. look at NCTE language standards.
Assignment: 1)
Journal Prompt: How do you use language to convey/create/change your
sense of self? Think about how you code-switch. Have you ever
made a conscious decision to change the way you talk? Were any of your
models literary?
2) Read Chapter 6 of Using YA
Lit in the English Classroom.
Week 5:
9/15: getting organized.
organizing a semester, a year, a unit. getting
started on your unit plan.
Assignment:
1) Read Chapter 9 of Using YA
Lit in the English Classroom.
2) Journal Prompt: What are the gaps in your literary education? Can
you, for instance, name three works that demonstrate American
Regionalism? Might as well start your
things-I-need-to-read-and-haven't-yet list.
9/17: No class. I will be at a conference and
will not have access to email.
Week 6:
9/23: tech cool, but other ways of being cool as well.
Assignment: 1) Read
first half of your management book.
Teaching Demos Begin
9/25: Teaching Demo:______________________________
Assignment:
1) Read second half of your management book.
2) Journal Prompt: Make your own applications from the management book
to your teaching. What did you learn that was useful?
Week 7:
9/30:
Teaching Demo: ______________________________
Assignment:
Read Tovani, Part 1
10/2: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
Assignment:
1) Read Tovani, Part 2
2) Journal Prompt: Choosing from any of the three lessons you have seen
so far, write up a lesson plan that modifies the lesson to incorporate a
strategy you learned from Tovani for a struggling reader.
Week 8:
10/7:
Teaching Demo: ______________________________
Assignment: Read
Tovani, Part 3
10/9: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
Assignment:
Week 9:
10/14: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
10/16: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
IATE Conference in Oak Brook.
Mandatory attendance for one day.
Week 10:
10/21: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
10/23: Teaching Demo:
______________________________
Week 11:
10/28: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
10/30: Teaching Demo:
______________________________
Week 12:
11/4: Teaching Demo: _______________________________
11/6: Teaching Demo: _______________________________
Week 13:
11/11: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
11/13: Teaching Demo: ______________________________
Week 14:
11/18: class wrap, schedule exit conferences
11/20: No Class. I will be at a conference and will not have access to
email.
Week 15:
12/2: No Class. I will be at a conference and will not have access to
email.
12/4: Ditto
Exam week: Exit conferences.
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