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1 Teaching English Standards With Pop Culture

2 Metaphor in Dodgeball It s a metaphor, but it really happened

3 We know a lot about kids today: TeacherTube.com

4 We know a lot about kids today: TeacherTube.com

5 BUT, school keeps looking like this: Archive.org

6 BUT, school keeps looking like this: Archive.org

7 So: Writing on a board still doesn t work in a total learning situation

8 So: Writing on a board still doesn t work in a total learning situation What does?

9 Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says:

10 Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says: Screen-agers see media not as discrete products that can impact them or their culture, but as elements of a multimedia mosaic that is their culture.

11 Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says:

12 Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says: Screen-agers read and write seamlessly, using images, sounds, and words. Screen-agers experience the world not in physical boundaries, but as an instant global network of connections and interconnections.

13 How then, do we engage the screen agers?

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15 MEDIA

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17 If kids are engaged and working

18 If kids are engaged and working The only result can be GROWTH

19 Goal: Awaken Their Prior Knowledge

20 Goal: Awaken Their Prior Knowledge Our students watch a lot of media: TV, internet, movies, DVD

21 Goal: Awaken Their Prior Knowledge Our students watch a lot of media: TV, internet, movies, DVD Use their weekend as their independent practice - book reports about TV shows

22 Goal: Awaken Their Prior Knowledge Our students watch a lot of media: TV, internet, movies, DVD Use their weekend as their independent practice - book reports about TV shows They know the stories - teach them the correct terminology and they ll take off on their own.

23 Let s Do A Lesson: Characterization Mr. Cliche

24 Characterization Character Name Description - looks Dialogue - what they say Actions - things they do Interior Monologue - what they think Society - what characters in the book think about this character

25 Characterization Character Name Description - looks Dialogue - what they say Actions - things they do Interior Monologue - what they think Society - what characters in the book think about this character These types of activities lead to comprehension and reflection skills

26 Another Lesson: Four Types of Conflict Touchdown Dance School

27 Another Lesson FOUR Types of Conflict + One USE PROPER NOUNS when possible Character vs. Character - one against one Character vs. Society - one against many Character vs. Self - the struggle with one!s own flaws or bad luck Character vs. Nature - fighting a storm, a bear, or a meteor or one!s own way of doing things?

28 Teaching with Media: V for Vendetta Typography

29 Ideas for the Vendetta clip in the classroom Discussion or set on PARADOX Have the kids define the words they don t recognize in the video Discussion on metaphor, theme or tone (the Vs)

30 FEDEX: Jenkins

31 Literary Devices Mini Lit Circle Student Video Title Who is who? List them by proper noun, if you can - if not give them a nickname Antagonist Protagonist Find some Lit Devices in the video (they can be quotes, examples or observations - remember, the WHY is most important): IRONY: a literary device which presents a conflict between appearance and reality; may be intentional or unintentional on the part of a character, but always intentional on the part of the author. What is ironic in the video? FLASHBACK: the depiction of an incident which occurred before the opening of a work; not merely a reference to the incident. Describe flashbacks: AMBIGUITY: the state of having more than one possible meaning. What is something ambiguous in the plot? POINT OF VIEW: the vantage point of the narrator from which the action is related; may be first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, or objective. Describe a section in the video that is THIRD PERSON limited and a section that is Ominscient

32 Literary Devices Mini Lit Circle Student Video Title Who is who? List them by proper noun, if you can - if not give them a nickname Antagonist Protagonist Find some Lit Devices in the video (they can be quotes, examples or observations - remember, the WHY is most important): IRONY: a literary device which presents a conflict between appearance and reality; may be intentional or unintentional on the part of a character, but always intentional on the part of the author. What is ironic in the video? FLASHBACK: the depiction of an incident which occurred before the opening of a work; not merely a reference to the incident. Describe flashbacks: We can cover Irony Flashback Ambiguity and Point of View AMBIGUITY: the state of having more than one possible meaning. What is something ambiguous in the plot? POINT OF VIEW: the vantage point of the narrator from which the action is related; may be first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, or objective. Describe a section in the video that is THIRD PERSON limited and a section that is Ominscient in about 20 minutes

33 Literary Devices Mini Lit Circle Student Video Title Who is who? List them by proper noun, if you can - if not give them a nickname Antagonist Protagonist

34 Video Review

35 Find some Lit Devices in the video (they can be quotes, examples or observations - remember, the WHY is most important): IRONY: a literary device which presents a conflict between appearance and reality; may be intentional or unintentional on the part of a character, but always intentional on the part of the author. What is ironic in the video?

36 FLASHBACK: the depiction of an incident which occurred before the opening of a work; not merely a reference to the incident. Describe flashbacks:

37 AMBIGUITY: the state of having more than one possible meaning. What is something ambiguous in the plot?

38 POINT OF VIEW: the vantage point of the narrator from which the action is related; may be first person, third person limited, third person omniscient, or objective. Describe a section in the video that is THIRD PERSON limited and a section that is Ominscient

39 If there is a vast wasteland today, it is not in Beavis and Butt-head s backyard (or even Barney s front yard) but in the 1960s mindset that television, movies, and popular culture are, at best, problematic; (continued)

40 ...that technology is just a pipe through which content flows to passive receivers; and that the role of society is to monitor and control the flow and thus control the problem. Elizabeth Thoman, Federal Communications Law Journal May 2003

41 How Do We Gather These Media Items? The Cook Book Lives Here:

42 Over 272,000 Commercials at: Use Videora to capture these commercials - FREE and add them to itunes in one click Teachers can download at home and bring them to school videora.com

43 AmericanRhetoric.com Over 5,000 speeches in audio

44 AmericanRhetoric.com Over 5,000 speeches in audio Free

45 Teach anadiplosis lately? It s easy with American Rhetoric type resources

46 Definition (not a big deal) Nothing really new here.

47 Examples (right now) This is something new!

48 Examples (right now) This is something new!

49 Examples (right now) This is something new!

50 Examples (right now) This is something new!

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52 A Partial List of My Commercials

53 In 2007, California s CST reading scores were Not a growth industry

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57 Are the scores the same because

58 Are the scores the same because the teaching is the same?

59 Are the scores the same because the teaching is the same? the engagement is the same?

60 Anthology of Picture Storybooks - Arranged by Literary Device About $38 Amazon More detail than American Rhetoric

61 Diagrams, Charts and Activities for ANY Book or Story Lingisystems.com about $50 Great book report tempaltes

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