9 Legs Article on Tips for Discussions

Discussion Groups have 9 Legs 

Listenwise

One of the most ignored parts of Language Arts is LISTENING.
Here's a resource that may help offering text and audio including podcasts.

Listenwise

Listenwise does the hard work of finding the podcasts that will work best in the classroom. We create curriculum-­aligned collections that illustrate the topics you need to teach. As well as selecting a daily current event to make it easy to bring the outside world into the classroom. All of them are tagged and searchable to find just the right piece when you need it!

Black History Poems
taken from The Academy of American Poets Newsletter

A Black History Month Reading List

In honor of Black History Month, which begins next week, we asked a group of contemporary black poets to share poems they think are essential reading for the month and to write about why. Here are their picks; visit Poets.org to read more about them.

“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
“Heartbeats” by Melvin Dixon
“American History” by Michael S. Harper
“Hurricane” by Yona Harvey
“Middle Passage” by Robert Hayden
“We Should Make a Documentary About Spades” by Terrance Hayes
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
“A Brief History of Hostility” by Jamaal May
“Coherence in Consequence” by Claudia Rankine
“For My People” by Margaret Walker
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley

Vocabulary Lists

Vocabulary Lists The May Help

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/

New Resources for Literacy!

Reading, Walking, Talking- A StoryWalk!

Educators at a Maine school are integrating literacy with physical education by installing story walks around the school. Students read a story written last year by a fifth-grader as they walk along an outdoor track. Educators plan to install similar story walks using books and student-writing competitions."

What if we had this at all of our Elementary Schools? Our NEW Elementary Schools can build this in! A StoryWalk! 

From the Eyewitness USC Shoah Foundation "100 Days to Inspire Respect", providing educators with easy to use testimony-based tools to discuss difficult, but important topics from hate to xenophobia. See below for info from their website. 

"Modeled after the aggressive 100-day agenda initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933, "100 Days to Inspire Respect" will run from Jan. 20 through April 29.  During those 100 days, each day we will release a new IWitness activity, Mini Lesson or other resources to help teach across 14 themes from racism to human rights to civic responsibility and more.  All of the resources are grounded in clips of testimony from survivors of genocide - the logical conclusion of unchecked hatred, racism, and intolerance.


 

 

Through the testimonies in IWitness, we understand hatred comes from stories, and so, we are countering hatred with stories.  As you may know from teaching with testimony, if a person knows your story, it makes it hard for them to "otherize" you, be divisive or hate you.

I encourage you to join "100 Days to Inspire Respect" by visitingIWitness daily to explore the new resources.  Every Monday, we will share the weekly theme and the list of the upcoming resources, so you can effectively plan to incorporate these resources into your curriculum."

10 Ways to Sabotage your Classroom Management

A thoughtful article from MiddleWeb. This is timely at the beginning of January! 

By Jennifer Gonzalez

"You know the basics: Establish clear rules and consequences, be consistent, keep students engaged. But even with all that in place, the small things you do could be wreaking havoc on your whole system.

Here are some habits you might have developed that are messing with your classroom management, along with more effective alternatives."

For more about this click here: Sabotage

January Literate Cape - Happy New Year 2017!

The January Literate Cape newsletter features the following:

• Wintry Recommended Reads
• The Word of the Year
• "Burning the Old Year", a poem from Naomi Shihab Nye
• January Fun Calendar 
• Smile, Laughs and Amazement

Look for it in your Email and send me your feedback!