Teaching English Standards With Pop Culture

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

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

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

Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says:

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.

Perhaps we can embrace the screen agers Douglas Rushkopf says:

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.

How then, do we engage the screen agers?

MEDIA

If kids are engaged and working

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

Goal: Awaken Their Prior Knowledge

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

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

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.

Let s Do A Lesson: Characterization Mr. Cliche

Characterization Character Name www.ctap7.org 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

Another Lesson: Four Types of Conflict Touchdown Dance School

Another Lesson FOUR Types of Conflict + One USE PROPER NOUNS when possible www.ctap7.org 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?

Teaching with Media: V for Vendetta Typography

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)

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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

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

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

Video Review

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

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)

...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

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Are the scores the same because

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

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

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