Boris Pasternak Gabriel García Márquez Milan Kundera Arthur Miller Susan Sontag Ursula K. Le Guin Boris Vian Sergei Dovlatov John Updike Simone de Beauvoir Eugen Ionescu Thornton Wilder Vladimir Nabokov William Saroyan Paul Auster Sylvia Plath Jacques Prévert Paul and Nusch Eluard Jorge Luis Borges…
Kelli O’Hara steps out at the curtain call with her “Wondeful Guy” Paulo Szot.
The Socratic style of discourse lends itself quite well to establishing critical thinkers due to the fact that Socrates believed that enabling students to think for themselves was more important than filling their heads with knowledge. With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student's argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, I decided to launch a Socratic Seminar style of instruction in my sixth grade classroom this week. Our Seminar The Text My approach began by engaging in a guided reading of a novel titled I Can't Believe I Have To Do This by Jan Alford. Throughout the course of the week we read the novel and discussed story events and critical vocabulary associated with the readings. The Questions Students were given a Socratic Seminar "Prep Sheet" at the beginning of the week. The sheet asked the students to do the following: #1. Summarize the assigned reading #2. Identify 3 compelling quotes or statements from the reading #3. Develop one Knowledge based question #4. Develop one Application style question #5. Develop one Synthesis style question Download at: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Socratic-Seminar-Packet The Set Up I then arranged my room in a double horseshoe configuration and assigned five students to be the inner circle. The inner circle students were slated to be the ones discussing and interacting. The outer circle of students were slated to observe and reflect and provide a 'backchannel'. The Discourse Relinquishing control was the MOST DIFFICULT thing!! Once the seminar began I truly had to force myself not to jump in and facilitate. Initially, it was truly awkward. Students nervously giggled and looked down at their papers. No one seemed willing to emerge as a leader. Once they realized that no one was coming to their rescue, the dialogue began and WOW. DID YOU KNOW?? A website called blockposters.com can take any .jpg or .gif image and turn it into a larger printable poster with overlapping edges for assembly?? Backchannel To occupy my outer circle, I distributed 5 ipads (1 for every 3 students) and allowed them to connect on todaysmeet.com. There they posted thoughts, questions, comments and even prompts to assist the inner circle. This back channel scrolled on the Smartboard throughout the seminar. (Admittedly, I didn't love the lack of grammar conventions demonstrated in the statements below.) Reflection/Assessment Without a doubt, we will do this again. Once the awkwardness ended, the dialog went FAR beyond what I've ever experienced with this novel. Students shared events that related DEEPLY to the characters, the character's choices and experiences. They also extrapolated character traits and applied them to new situations. As an assessment tool, each student completed an Exit Slip paragraph where they exercised their argumentative writing skills by completing a one paragraph reflection on the grade they deserved as a result of their participation in the seminar. Socratic discourse....making the kiddos use THEIR Smarticles!! All of my materials are available at: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Socratic-Seminar-Packet
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The dreaded written comprehensive exam. Many graduate students will have to pass some form of comprehensive exam at some point in their program. This can often include putting together a multi-page grant-style project proposal. Putting one of these together can be a daunting process if you are unprepared. But have no fear, there are ways to make crafting a solid document far less painful.
Oil on canvas 48 × 35 4/5 in | 122 × 91 cm
LAST ONE!!! Alright so for my last artist I figured I would need to go out with a bang, and who better to do that than Jen Stark and her fantastic explosions (often of color)? Counter Cosmo So on her website, she has drawings and animation "pieces" on display, too, but I was like "Shoot! I love her sculptures and it will be her sculptures this blog looks at!" So let's look! First off, as anyone would guess who knows me or who has read almost any of my blogs, I love color, and THESE HAVE SO MUCH COLOR! Microscopic Entrance Who would have thought about taking a ton of colored paper and making sculptures out of it like she did? I like the form of the sculptures and the rhythm and pattern in them. Their 3D quality complements the bold color schemes nicely. Radial Reverie I so wish I could see these in real life and be able to look at them from angles other than what the pictures show. I would really want to touch them, though. It would be like when you have a book and run your thumb across the pages as they flip from back to front,... and back again. Sunken Sediment I could not find it on the site I was looking at for her, but I want to know why? Why this, why this paper, why these colors? How did she come up with this idea? Speed of Light Anyways, I actually have enjoyed looking at all these different artists this past summer, and hope you did and will do, too. Signing off. :) -Maria http://www.jenstark.com/index.php
A couple weeks ago, I saw this Round-Up of Melted Crayon Projects on Be Different, Act Normal . I was intrigued and we have a whole box of ...
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