Good morning everyone,
Here we are at the end of our official class time for the year. I'm so glad that you have all made it through this journey with some new tools and good experiences that will inform your learning in the future.
Today in class we will do portfolio pulling for half the period and then discussing and writing of our greatest learning experiences in class.
Some of you will be coming to school for the rest of the next 2 weeks to complete assignments, others will just be preparing for regents exams and summer fun.
Keep checking in with the blog over the summer and I will post different books that may be of interest as a heads up as to what willl be coming in September.
Thank you all for a challenging and meaningful school year. I appreciate all that you have brought to the table and contributed to this class.
Have a great summer,
Ms. S
Monday, June 16, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Portfolio time...
You have all been showing me what you know over the past couple of weeks, working diligently to finish standards work and complete missing assignments.
Monday is the last day of classes... I'd like us to spend time pulling portfolio pieces and reflecting as a group... where did we start? Where did we end up? What have we learned? How has this year's experience helped shape how you will work next year?
From the 3rd trimester:
You will need to select one exemplar piece... (your best work... what are you most proud of?)
One improvement piece - what shows your growth?
One informal piece - current events (1 of the 5), blog assignments, sourcebook entries, annotation exercises, etc.
For the reflection for each piece, please consider the following:
why did you choose the piece for each of the categories? what does it show you know based on the standards (you can look on teacherease and/or rubrics given out in class). How does it show it?
What would you do differently? What did you learn from actually doing it?
Monday is the last day of classes... I'd like us to spend time pulling portfolio pieces and reflecting as a group... where did we start? Where did we end up? What have we learned? How has this year's experience helped shape how you will work next year?
From the 3rd trimester:
You will need to select one exemplar piece... (your best work... what are you most proud of?)
One improvement piece - what shows your growth?
One informal piece - current events (1 of the 5), blog assignments, sourcebook entries, annotation exercises, etc.
For the reflection for each piece, please consider the following:
why did you choose the piece for each of the categories? what does it show you know based on the standards (you can look on teacherease and/or rubrics given out in class). How does it show it?
What would you do differently? What did you learn from actually doing it?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Class today and the rest of the week...
Hey Folks,
I left school today as the heat was not working well with my body. Make sure each of you stay hydrated and keep yourselves cool.
In class today, please continue working on your standards if you have not completed them... email them to me when you are through.
Those of you who have emailed me work, continue to do so and we will conference on Thursday.
Every student needs to email me whatever they worked on in class today by the end of the period... whether it is a lot or a little.
Thanks,
Ms. S
mssackstein@yahoo.com
I left school today as the heat was not working well with my body. Make sure each of you stay hydrated and keep yourselves cool.
In class today, please continue working on your standards if you have not completed them... email them to me when you are through.
Those of you who have emailed me work, continue to do so and we will conference on Thursday.
Every student needs to email me whatever they worked on in class today by the end of the period... whether it is a lot or a little.
Thanks,
Ms. S
mssackstein@yahoo.com
Friday, June 6, 2008
Reflection and subject area pulling
Next week please come to class with a checklist... start thinking about the three pieces you'd like to put in your third trimester portfolio...
1 exemplar piece (any finished project/assignment - that you feel represents your best work)
1 improvement piece (something that shows your hard work and revision - all drafts should be included)
1 informal piece - something we've done in class that wasn't a "big" project... current events, analysis of a poem or any class research/notes
Reflections will need to be included that are based on the standards.
1 exemplar piece (any finished project/assignment - that you feel represents your best work)
1 improvement piece (something that shows your hard work and revision - all drafts should be included)
1 informal piece - something we've done in class that wasn't a "big" project... current events, analysis of a poem or any class research/notes
Reflections will need to be included that are based on the standards.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Standards - class today...
Please continue working through your reflection of the standards in class today... I will be there to help you if you don't understand what it is asking of you.
Remember, this is your time to really think about this year's body of work and honesty comment on your understanding of it... Even if you didn't finish assignments, that doesn't mean you didn't learn anything...
Be specific to your understanding and then try to talk about a specific assignment that helped you understand it... you may use teacherease to accomplish this task.
You should be done with 1 and possibly 2 and beginning 3 today. Make sure that by the end of class, I have your work emailed and/or printed out and turned in... I will be conferencing with everyone today about what they have done so far and where they need continued improvement and revision.
Important: if you are a person who is in danger of an NC for the school year (i.e. you are currently lined up to get an F in teacherease) it is especially important that I speak with you about what the portfolio committee has decided will happen. More on this in the future...
Remember, this is your time to really think about this year's body of work and honesty comment on your understanding of it... Even if you didn't finish assignments, that doesn't mean you didn't learn anything...
Be specific to your understanding and then try to talk about a specific assignment that helped you understand it... you may use teacherease to accomplish this task.
You should be done with 1 and possibly 2 and beginning 3 today. Make sure that by the end of class, I have your work emailed and/or printed out and turned in... I will be conferencing with everyone today about what they have done so far and where they need continued improvement and revision.
Important: if you are a person who is in danger of an NC for the school year (i.e. you are currently lined up to get an F in teacherease) it is especially important that I speak with you about what the portfolio committee has decided will happen. More on this in the future...
Friday, May 30, 2008
Standards work...
Please continue to work on your standards for the weekend... you should look at the other standards and begin thinking about where you have come...
On Monday we will be working on Standard 2
On Tuesday we will be working on Standard 3
On Friday we will be workign on Standard 4
On Monday we will be working on Standard 2
On Tuesday we will be working on Standard 3
On Friday we will be workign on Standard 4
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Intereseting stuff...courtesy of NCTE
Censorship Widening, Experts Say
Journalism teacher and high school newspaper advisor Linda Kane was fired from those positions because she and her students refused to change the paper's policy on the use of profanity, an issue that arose over the inclusion in the paper of three controversial articles on marijuana, one of which was an anonymous column containing some profanity. Chicago Tribune, May 27, 2008 ...
views20 Years Post-Hazelwood, Student Freedom of Speechand Press Important As Ever In its resolution "On Students' Freedom of Speech and Press," NCTE emphasizes the importance of student journalists having the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press, as stipulated in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
The NCTE Assembly for Advisers of Student Publications/Journalism Education Association (AASP/JEA) and the Journalism Education Association provide resources on student publications. The Student Press Law Center provides help when student publications are challenged....blogStill Letting TV Work for YouNCTE INBOX blogger Traci Gardner shares a 40-year-old (and still relevant!) example of how you can let TV work for you in the classroom in this week's NCTE INBOX Blog....
ideasFree access to journal articles mentioned in this INBOX is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, TE=Teacher Education, G=General).Exploring Journalism with Students On June 1, 1980, CNN debuted as the first television news network.
Take advantage of the anniversary to explore journalism activities in the classroom. Elementary students can explore and write op-ed pieces, using the resources in the Language Arts article "Exploring Inquiry as a Teaching Stance in the Writing Workshop" (E). The article includes a "snapshot" of a fifth-grade writing workshop and its study of op-ed writing to show inquiry in action. Remember that these pieces are not limited to print publications. Local television stations and radio stations offer "talk back" options.If you work with middle level students, try writing letters to the editor using ideas from the Voices from the Middle article "Going Public: Letters to the World" (M), which includes criteria for effective letters and an exploration of how student writing benefits from writing for a public audience.
Try a similar project with secondary students with the ReadWriteThink lesson Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor (S). Don't limit the letters to print publications. Check cable and network news websites for ways to submit students' letters to the news programs. Whether you're advising an extracurricular newspaper or working on a class newspaper project, the English Journal article "So You've Been Asked to Advise a Student Publication" (S) outlines the structures students can use for learning to find, research, develop, respond to, and reflect on story ideas.
The Teaching English in the Two-Year College article "Using Journalism Writing to Improve College Composition" (C) explores news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and outlines a profile writing project. Students might then film YouTube videos of their news stories or post blog entries on the latest information....announcements
Exploring Journalism in Print, Online, and Video Media If you're looking for more resources on journalism in the classroom, NCTE can help.
NCTE's Applying NCTE/IRA Standards in Classroom Journalism Projects: Activities and Scenarios includes activities and vignettes that range from news to editorial writing to work with current and literary events.
Check out the book's sample chapter for a strategy that invites students to research the historical and cultural context of Elizabethan England and then write their own newspaper. Modernize students' presentations further by asking them to film news stories to share with the class or to post online.
Challenge students to look at the subjective influences on televised news programs with the chapter "Deconstructing Broadcast News" from NCTE's Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms. The book shares 27 field-tested lessons, including activities on photo manipulation, video diaries, visualizing literary texts, exploring video games, analyzing the music industry through an exercise in artist promotion, and exploring the use of the video news release in local and national news broadcasts.
Journalism teacher and high school newspaper advisor Linda Kane was fired from those positions because she and her students refused to change the paper's policy on the use of profanity, an issue that arose over the inclusion in the paper of three controversial articles on marijuana, one of which was an anonymous column containing some profanity. Chicago Tribune, May 27, 2008 ...
views20 Years Post-Hazelwood, Student Freedom of Speechand Press Important As Ever In its resolution "On Students' Freedom of Speech and Press," NCTE emphasizes the importance of student journalists having the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press, as stipulated in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
The NCTE Assembly for Advisers of Student Publications/Journalism Education Association (AASP/JEA) and the Journalism Education Association provide resources on student publications. The Student Press Law Center provides help when student publications are challenged....blogStill Letting TV Work for YouNCTE INBOX blogger Traci Gardner shares a 40-year-old (and still relevant!) example of how you can let TV work for you in the classroom in this week's NCTE INBOX Blog....
ideasFree access to journal articles mentioned in this INBOX is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, TE=Teacher Education, G=General).Exploring Journalism with Students On June 1, 1980, CNN debuted as the first television news network.
Take advantage of the anniversary to explore journalism activities in the classroom. Elementary students can explore and write op-ed pieces, using the resources in the Language Arts article "Exploring Inquiry as a Teaching Stance in the Writing Workshop" (E). The article includes a "snapshot" of a fifth-grade writing workshop and its study of op-ed writing to show inquiry in action. Remember that these pieces are not limited to print publications. Local television stations and radio stations offer "talk back" options.If you work with middle level students, try writing letters to the editor using ideas from the Voices from the Middle article "Going Public: Letters to the World" (M), which includes criteria for effective letters and an exploration of how student writing benefits from writing for a public audience.
Try a similar project with secondary students with the ReadWriteThink lesson Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor (S). Don't limit the letters to print publications. Check cable and network news websites for ways to submit students' letters to the news programs. Whether you're advising an extracurricular newspaper or working on a class newspaper project, the English Journal article "So You've Been Asked to Advise a Student Publication" (S) outlines the structures students can use for learning to find, research, develop, respond to, and reflect on story ideas.
The Teaching English in the Two-Year College article "Using Journalism Writing to Improve College Composition" (C) explores news gathering and news writing techniques common to feature writing and outlines a profile writing project. Students might then film YouTube videos of their news stories or post blog entries on the latest information....announcements
Exploring Journalism in Print, Online, and Video Media If you're looking for more resources on journalism in the classroom, NCTE can help.
NCTE's Applying NCTE/IRA Standards in Classroom Journalism Projects: Activities and Scenarios includes activities and vignettes that range from news to editorial writing to work with current and literary events.
Check out the book's sample chapter for a strategy that invites students to research the historical and cultural context of Elizabethan England and then write their own newspaper. Modernize students' presentations further by asking them to film news stories to share with the class or to post online.
Challenge students to look at the subjective influences on televised news programs with the chapter "Deconstructing Broadcast News" from NCTE's Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms. The book shares 27 field-tested lessons, including activities on photo manipulation, video diaries, visualizing literary texts, exploring video games, analyzing the music industry through an exercise in artist promotion, and exploring the use of the video news release in local and national news broadcasts.
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