Fallacy Handout and Reading Strategies

Here is a copy of my Fallacy Handout I'm going to use for our informational text presentation thing.

oh and here are my reading strategies

So I'm Working on This Thing

called a really crappy, stock-looking, cookie-cutter website for lesson plans.

WARNING: 1)These are totally boring lessons. 2)They include a lot of questions, so they look really long.

When I post up new lesson plans, I'll send all ya'll a link to them.

Here it is: SEXY LESSON PLANS

My quick SIX TRAIT RUBRIC

My Word Choice lesson from class a few weeks ago


6 Traits--10th grade (this was my unit for Lorraine's and Glen's classes)
Word Choice

Fluency

Organization

Conventions

Ideas

Voice

Graphic Organizers

I posted a few links to Graphic Organizer sites. The one listed as "Blank..." takes you to a 50+ page .pdf file of blank organizers for use with selections of fiction. The site says they are fourth grade organizers, but I think one could augment them for our use. What do you think?
Later,
Rillene

Partial Unit Plan and Web Quest--American Short Story

I've got a partial unit plan on American Short Storys with an accompanieing Web Quest posted on my UEN website. Fellow classmates Ben, Dylan, and I worked on this web quest together in Instructional Media Fall 2007. After so much time invested, I decided to do my unit plan for Methods 1 around it. Only problem is not all the lessons are comlpeted--just the five Lorrane had us do.

My UEN page is found at http://my.uen.org/202580. Look for the documents box--you can download the files from this site. If you run into any problems, post me at RilleneN@gmail.com.

Melissa's Lessons Thus Far

First off, when I took CIA (Curriculum) we were required to write a Unit Plan with at least 5 LPs and to incorporate some of the 10 Models of Instruction that we learned. This is my Transcendentalism Unit Plan that I wrote for that class. It's not perfect, but the basic ideas and matierals are solid. I converted the files into PDF form. That's the only way I could figure out how to get the files on the blog. Anyone have any other ideas?

http://convert.neevia.com/prods/739d2bd1-a940-474f-b4fb-c3debfa0ad44.cvn/Lesson%201-WebQuest.pdf (Lesson 1)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/a889452a-5eb9-4cd0-ac5a-a7285f0ccbe8.cvn/Rubric%20for%20WebQuest%20Projects.pdf (Lesson 1 Rubric)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/b0159fbb-23a5-4909-b312-96e4f54f96ba.cvn/Lesson%202-Walden.pdf (Lesson 2)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/0024600f-60ee-41b1-8f5b-a5b359ecb88d.cvn/Lesson%203-Event%20Map.pdf (Lesson 3)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/bb05359e-9bbc-47d2-ae9d-1716d281e73a.cvn/Event%20Map.pdf (Event Map Worksheet)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/628b05f0-e1f0-41b5-87fb-67cacfc8c077.cvn/Event%20Map%20Evaluation-Rubric.pdf (Event Map Rubric)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/57588813-12e5-46d8-8984-24a45b523614.cvn/Lesson%204-Nature.pdf (Lesson 4)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/c87e69f0-8806-48ba-af44-783208b31470.cvn/Lesson%205-Socratic%20Seminar.pdf (Lesson 5)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/591bcd73-efe4-4925-944f-eb23249bc5af.cvn/Lesson%206-Transecendentalism%20Connection.pdf (Lesson 6)
http://convert.neevia.com/prods/53a1fe19-dde2-4242-9d5d-77122b47ee23.cvn/Transcendentalism%20Unit%20Outline.pdf (unit outline)

I had a couple of other documents, but the converter website I was using only let me convert 10 documents in a day. So, there are a few more documents that I have for this unit.

Thanks, Melissa

A Brilliant Idea

Keri, Rilenne and I were talking about how we like to not only write our own but, borrow and steal lesson plans. So, we thought that the idea of having a blog for our class would work out great! Hopefully everyone will take advantage of this site. Not only can we share lesson plans, but keep up on where we are in our teaching, teaching experiences, and even good books that we have come across. This is really just a way for us to share ideas, and keep in touch with eachother. In order to make a post each of us will need to know the email address and password. Anyone can change up the layout of the blog. If you come across an awesome website add it to the list. Blogger.com is very user friendly, so if anyone is having trouble with it just let me know and I can give you a tutorial. (But I'm not an expert either.) Welcome!

Love: Melissa