Identity Tool:
Toon Doo
Identify Strategy in DZS:
Pg 53: “Kids enjoy making cartoons to represent a historical situation or event, a conflict, or a controversy.”
Pg 54: “And they permit students to inject a sense of play or personal ownership into an idea that is otherwise pretty dry in the textbook.”
Identify Content:
Current Events: political or opinion cartoons
OR
Mythology: to tell the story through a comic strip
Gilgamesh
Iliad
Aeneid
Odyssey
Romulus and Remus Myth
King Arthur
How will it be better:
Overcome the “…but I can’t draw Mr. Franzen.”
Allows them to change without having to do draft after draft
Can be a quick or long process
Easy access to text on the internet at the computer station
Easy access to visual images
Does not use class resources: paper, markers, pencils
Allows more permanent medium that does not fade, become torn, or is drawn upon.
Can be worked on outside of school by numerous people.
Allow students to facilitate script writing
Encourage interpretation of the text
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
This I believe.....
I believe that writing is the only way of preserving humanity. Through written word, the soul of humanity is held for the future. The emotions, brillance, rational, logic, pain and mistakes of past explain themselves through this medium.
A statue in the desert can show you a great egyptian pharoah, translate the features of the man into the godlike image. The epitaph tells you who he is and what he did. The hieroglyphics in his correlating tomb tells of what he did. Without the latter two, you lose the significance of the man, who he was, why the statue exists and inly left with a large stone statue.
In history, fossils, pictures, artifacts, buildings, weapons all tell stories of their own, but only through writing can we explore the soft tissue of the brain that has long since rotted away (unless your name is Otzi) and explore the actual person.
The students need to know the value of writing. They need to be able to do it effectivily as defined as communicating clearly with the reader.
In my classroom, writing will become more of a focus, beginning at the basic levels of scaffolding and product construction. This will paraelle the reading work as the year progresses.
A statue in the desert can show you a great egyptian pharoah, translate the features of the man into the godlike image. The epitaph tells you who he is and what he did. The hieroglyphics in his correlating tomb tells of what he did. Without the latter two, you lose the significance of the man, who he was, why the statue exists and inly left with a large stone statue.
In history, fossils, pictures, artifacts, buildings, weapons all tell stories of their own, but only through writing can we explore the soft tissue of the brain that has long since rotted away (unless your name is Otzi) and explore the actual person.
The students need to know the value of writing. They need to be able to do it effectivily as defined as communicating clearly with the reader.
In my classroom, writing will become more of a focus, beginning at the basic levels of scaffolding and product construction. This will paraelle the reading work as the year progresses.
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