Content Knowledge & Application
Intern:
- Researches and validly presents, represents, and models the subject matter(s) to students.
- Promotes inquiry and the use of current information and other resources, to help students become independent learners and problem solvers.
- Creates opportunities for students to learn and understand relevant academic language
- Engages students in activities that connect subject matter to the world beyond school, including through the use of authentic contexts and authentic audiences for academic work.
- Facilitates students in developing and understanding multiple perspectives on local and global issues.
- Engages learners in developing literacy and communication skills. S/he helps them recognize the disciplinary expectations for reading different types of text and for writing in specific contexts for targeted purposes and/or audiences and provides practice in both.
- Guides learners in gathering, organizing and evaluating information and ideas from digital and other resources and from different perspectives.
Abstract: Reading and writing is my passion. I hope that through my content applications in the classroom I can pass over my love for English to my students. I love creating opportunities for students to learn and understand academic language while also incorporating fun aspects. In the two lessons below I taught students the essential pieces of an argument and used a fun activity as a way to promote the inquiry of current information that the students knew. By incorporating a "Class President" activity, I was able to watch the students engage in fun while also learning valuable skills. While reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I was able to focus a full 2 day lesson on rhetorical devices. Looking at Atticus' final speech was a great way to evaluate the knowledge of the students. Also, I have below a full 8 week unit plan for Romeo and Juliet. In the unit plan, I was able to unpack the standards and focus all of my daily objectives back to the essential questions. Daily objectives and "I can" statements are key to presenting the new information to students.
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Artifact One: Claim, Evidence, Warrants Lesson Plan
When teaching students about claim, evidence, and warrants, I incorporated the movie Legally Blonde into the lesson as a visual. We analyzed the court scene to find how the movie used claim, evidence, and warrants. |
Artifact Two: Rhetorical Analysis of Atticus' Final Speech Lesson
While reading To Kill a Mockingbird, we analyzed and discussed Atticus' final speech as a way to prepare for the SAT. Students looked through a print out of the final speech for different rhetorical devices. As they were identifying the devices, students were required to answer the question "Why is the author using this device in that way?" |
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Artifact Three: Rome and Juliet Unit Plan
For TE 804, I created a unit plan for Romeo and Juliet. In the unit I have listed both summative and formative assessments, essential questions that would be the focus of the unit plan, unpacked the standards, and have each day standards and goals for students. I implemented this unit plan in a 9th grade English class. |
Artifact Four: Class President Argument Practice
As a way to practice writing claims using evidence, we did a class president activity. I wrote positive and negative traits on a note card and handed each student a random card. They then chose another classmate they wanted to promote as class president. Using the positive and negative traits, the students had to use their qualities to positively promote their candidate. Afterwards we had a mock election based on who wrote the best campaign speech. |