Sentences with phrase «literature class some students»

In a college literature class some students may have the ebook version, others the print edition.

Not exact matches

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Until I read The Humiliation of the Word, for instance, I could not understand why my students in French literature classes had so much to say and ask about the texts they read but never had any verbal response whatever when I showed them a film.

A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In the City of Sylvia.

In fourth through 12th grade, active discussion and debate should be the primary activities of language and literature classes, with older students increasingly transferring those oral language skills into writing.

To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»

«In this way, students are given the opportunity to read good literature at a variety of levels, for a purpose other than just for a report in class.

Like all the other students in Joanna Ecke's American - literature class at Wilton High School here, Sister M. Andrina Logan dutifully carries her textbook to class four days a week and does the required readings by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, and Benjamin Franklin.

You could turn this response to literature unit into a book club unit where students make cases for picking their suggested book to be read and analyzed by the rest of the class.

I've occasionally taught «The Rime» to Year 12 Literature classes and on each occasion I've been uncertain to what extent I should facilitate students» understanding and appreciation of the poem by using Dore's etchings, and the film «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» as visual aids.

While calculus or physics might not have much relationship to demographics of the students, clearly the choice of texts to read in a history class, or a literature or sociology or urban studies class, might evolve over time to reflect changing demographics.

Although practice tests and classroom drills have raised the pass rate for the reading section of the TAAS in high schools, few students are able to use those same skills to complete actual reading assignments outside of class, to make meaning of literature, or to connect reading assignments to other parts of the course such as discussion and writing.

This literature often depicted teachers as stupid or evil: stupid by robotically following tradition and unwittingly imposing harmful practices on students; evil by harboring race - or class - based prejudices that manifested in low expectations for many kids.

Students will continue with elective choices in the spring semester along with a required core class in which they will review a relevant knowledge base (research literature and effective practices from the field) in preparation for their residency placements.

According to Timothy Shanahan of the University of Illinois, Chicago, «Devoting 80 percent of reading instruction to literature may improve students» performance in their English classes, but what about social studies, science, and math?»

During this 40 minute non graded class ~ students read and discussed literature ~ did character education building ~ computer activities ~ geography and writing projects ~ and shared issues of the day.

Rob teaches primarily Advanced Placement English Language and has developed curriculum for 10th Grade English Literature and a class focusing on the promotion of Social Justice advocacy in student populations.

Before grouping her class into literature circles, Chandler meets individually with each student to discuss the student's reading ability.

Juriaan said she teaches the standard literature curriculum, but that her Davidson classes focus on analysis; in her public - school classes, she spent her time helping students comprehend the plot.

Extracts taken from the following texts: - Jane Eyre - Mill on the floss - Nicholas Nickleby - Wuthering Heights Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore Victorian context including schools and social classes - analyse structure - analyse language - explore Victorian school experiences - write imaginatively - explore connotations of language With a large focus on 19th century texts in the new 9 - 1 specifications for both language and literature - exploration in KS3 is vital and these resources enable students to access appropriate extracts taken from complex literature on themes that they will be able to relate to.

As a cross-curricular American literature and culinary arts activity, students research the recipes of Emily Dickinson and make samples for a full - class tea party.

In addition to student projects and demos by real scientists, teachers created class experiments to share and read great science literature to children.

In English class, the purpose isn't to just teach students how to read and write but how to appreciate good literature and find beauty in the written word.

And Hidalgo builds student capacity in its AP courses: Of the 13 such classes offered at the school, those with the highest enrollment by far are Spanish language and Spanish literature.

Puente students, a mix of high - performing and low - performing students of all races, often spend a portion of every class reading and responding to the literature curriculum through personal narratives or an analysis essay.

Students choose any work of fiction appropriate for their reading level (in my AP Literature class, students read AP - worthyStudents choose any work of fiction appropriate for their reading level (in my AP Literature class, students read AP - worthystudents read AP - worthy books).

Yesterday afternoon in my twelfth - grade World Literature class, I put my students through Hell, literally.

Along with the new standards was a graduation requirement for students, starting with the Class of 2017, to pass subject - specific state tests in Algebra I, biology and literature called Keystone Exams to earn a diploma.

This does not mean English teachers need to cut literature from their syllabi; it means that, across all of their high school classes, students should be spending 70 percent of their time reading nonfiction texts.

We are using it in our Junior Literature class this semester as a supplement to what is being done in the high school classes and preparing our younger students to attend a production of «A Midsummer Night's Dream» at Southside Enrichment for Language Arts and History, Homer Glen, Illinois.

«My government students can do something that's going to make their English class and their literature skills more enriching.»

In one school, a high score on the English language arts assessment combined with a high grade in a sophomore English class might automatically place a student in an AP Literature class that they didn't know they were qualified for.

As students progress from elementary school through high school, they need to rely on reading comprehension not only for their literature classes, but also for solving mathematical word problems and understanding texts in science, social studies, and other subjects.

Before Common Core, students in most high school English classes read mostly literature, but the reality now is that students must split their time between fiction and nonfiction.

Classes would be taught in both languages; the curriculum would include a course in which students hone their Spanish grammar and read Spanish literature.

As teachers and teacher educators, many of us can strongly relate to that notion of wanting to empower our students to «fight the dragons,» as Kathryn, a student in my online children's literature class so eloquently put it.

Example: In a «Teaching Writing» methods class, for example, the teacher educator, aware of the literature on peer response and student writing, asks students in class to post their drafts on the computer screens.

Coaching, another instructional strategy advocated in the literature on cognitive apprenticeship, in which the instructor watches the learners» early performances and provides feedback and suggestions, is more likely to be used in face - to - face classes than in online ones, because face - to - face courses readily afford observation of student performances.

If students are familiar with socratic seminars, these could serve a similar purpose to the fishbowl discussion or could be used periodically during Literature Circles as a way to re-establish class norms and debrief difficult texts and issues as a class and with increased teacher presence.

In the past he has worked as a Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Greater Boston where he taught literature to a class of seventh grade students, he has worked as an assistant special education teacher in an elementary school in Massachusetts, and he has tutored students of many different ages in the DC Reads program.

English classes in independent schools — including classes in composition, language arts, journalism, humanities, literature, AP English, and creative writing — typically have a lower student to teacher ratio in order to foster an environment that cultivates these qualities.

says noted literacy expert Timothy Shanahan, who explores the five following legends with the hope of slowing their spread: (1) The new standards prohibit teachers from setting purposes for reading or discussing prior knowledge; (2) teachers are no longer required to teach phonological awareness, phonics, or fluency; (3) English teachers can no longer teach literature in literature classes; (4) teachers must teach students at frustration levels; and (5) most schools are already teaching the new standards.

Mills Teacher Scholar Travlyn Langendorff observed that her 11th - grade American Literature students were not engaging in «substantive» class discussions.

FEATURES Flexibility for whole - class practice, small - group guided practice, independent or partner work, learning stations Clearly stated objective for each activity that allow you to differentiate Focus on foundational skills and concepts Engaging puzzle format for a fun challenge Immediate feedback for self - checking INCLUDES 24 Student Activity Books (4 copies of each title, 32 - pages each) 8 Answer Cases 1 Teacher Guide Level 3 Titles Literacy Foundations: Phonics & Fluency Language: Conventions Language: Vocabulary Literature: Comprehension Skills Science Informational Text: Comprehension Skills Social Studies Informational Text: Comprehension Skills

What is most important is that all class members, regardless of reading level, have access to the literature to be discussed in the book club, and that each student participates in written response to that book and discussion of it in a mixed - ability small group.See Prior to third grade, Book Club activities are centered on the teacher read - aloud, since most books that these children could read independently would not have enough substance to warrant extended discussion.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects.

After the initial fishbowl discussion phase, a typical Book Club day began with book clubs (discussion in small groups), followed by community share (whole class discussion), mini lesson, reading in groups, and ended with individual writing in response to prompt questions (open - ended questions designed to engage students in personal, critical, and creative responses to literature).

Each student is enrolled into UC - approved A-G courses including Art and Music and can participate in a wide variety of Advanced Prep classes including AP English Literature, AP English Language, AP Spanish Literature, AP Spanish Language and AP US History.

After every book we read as a group (whole class, small group, or literature circle), I ask my students to reflect on that book in their «Reading Inventory.»

Under the new standards, English teachers will still be spending the lion's share of their time on literature, but that means that history, science, and math teachers need to have students reading appropriate texts in their classes, too.