Teaching Contemporary Poetry in the High School Classroom

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Teachers! Join us for an online discussion on "Teaching Contemporary Poetry in the High School Classroom" on Tuesday, June 30th at 11:00 a.m. We will read and analyze "The Black Walnut Tree" by Mary Oliver, "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall," and "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" by Louise Erdrich. We will also discuss ways these […]

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Teaching Short Stories in the High School Classroom

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Teachers! Join us for an online discussion on “Teaching Short Stories in the High School Classroom” on Tuesday, July 21st at 11:00 a.m. We will discuss "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, "A&P" by John Updike, and "Araby" by James Joyce. We will also discuss ways these short stories may be incorporated and used with students. […]

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Analyzing Different Genres

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To be ready for high school English, including advanced and college prep courses, students must have extensive experience with complex texts. These texts should come from nineteenth century to contemporary time periods and should include both informational and imaginative writings. Diverse complex texts are at the center of a challenging ELA curriculum committed to a […]

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Analyzing Figurative Language and Allusion

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Literary and rhetorical analysis involves determining not only what an author is saying but how an author is saying it. This session focuses on strategies (including templates, frames, and sentence stems) for teaching students how to analyze an author’s choices and connect methods (diction, details, and figurative language, such as allusion) to meaning. Participants will […]

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Reading for Meaning

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In this session, participants will first understand how to help students build background knowledge by providing students informational and visual texts. Participants will also explore how the concrete elements of a text function together to create abstract meaning. Finally, participants will learn how to teach students to express their understanding of texts through creating text-dependent […]

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Teacher Talk - Ethnic Identity in Times of Protest: Passages for Discussion

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SOLD OUT- Contact info@appliedpractice.com to be added to the Wait List. Over the last decades -- and certainly more recently -- the concept of ethnic identity in times of protest has become an increasingly important issue our students are faced with and one which will need to be addressed in the classroom. Questions of ethnicity […]

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Teacher Talk - Using Complex Short Stories in the Classroom

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From the AP Literature CED: "The highest performing essays on the exam typically recognize and account for contradictions and complexities in the text being analyzed. Students who reduce a complex setting or character to only a single detail or moment where a shift or change occurs may ignore or fail to consider other details that […]

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Teacher Talk - Controversial Texts: Teaching Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the High School Classroom

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Many works, like Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer prize winning play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" have been banned, censored, or otherwise restricted at times from high school classrooms. Join us for a discussion of Williams' play and best practices on how to handle controversial texts in the classroom. We will also focus on authorial intent and adaptations including the […]

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Teacher Talk: "But what I meant to say was..." : Commentary for Analysis and Commentary for Argument (AP English Language and Composition)

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Students are smart. Students make great observations. Students say things that cause us to see ideas or texts differently.  Too often, they try to put these things in writing and miss the mark. Too often, we know what they are trying to say, and we want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but we […]

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