| Teaching Language Arts in the Secondary Schools |
| "Gattaca" unit TV commercials "A Modest Proposal" Shakespeare's Sonnet 146 Panel discussion "Our Fellow Man" Lesson Unit Unsent Letters Mad Libs Point-of-View Exercises |
| Projects - Young Adult Book Presentation - An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, by Jim Murphy. - Professional Book Presentation - Improving Comprehension with Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do, by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. - Writing Instruction Project - Philosophy and methods for teaching invention in high school writing. |
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| Course Description Teaching of the processes and skills for reading/language arts (grades 6-12). Topics include teaching the reading and writing process, children's and adolescent literature, poetry, drama, listening/speaking, and media. |
| Course Rationale This course highlights the various literacy skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Attention is given to the writing process and the evaluation of writing; teaching fiction and nonfiction literature, poetry, and folklore; developing listening and speaking skills; analyzing the media; and the use of drama to involve students in literacy development. The purpose of the course is to highlight methods of literacy development. |
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| READ 5326: "Teaching Language Arts in the Secondary Schools" |
| Course text: Exploring and Teaching the English Language Arts, by Stephen Tchudi and Diana Mitchell |
| *** I finished this course in December 2004 with an A!!!! Thanks, Dr. Hadaway! *** |
| Course description and rationale taken from Dr. Hadaway's Fall 2004 syllabus. |
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