Objectives EDRG 3344 T/R

These are my 6 objectives based on Blooms Taxonomy. They are all based on the theme of a novel in an English classroom for High School students. I figured it to be appropriate to put it to use for the grade level I want to teach.

Remembering
The students will identify characters and quotes made by them in a worksheet at 90% accuracy

Understanding
The students will summarize the plot of a novel in a quiz at 95% accuracy

Applying
The students will execute a simulation of a scene in the novel at 90% accuracy.

Analyzing
The students will outline the major shifts in a novel in an outline at 90% accuracy

Evaluating
The student will judge the importance of a specific symbol from the novel in a report at 85% accuracy.

Creating
The student will construct a song based on a theme from the novel being studied at 85% accuracy.

Star Trek TNG--EDRG 3344 T/R

So where else can you watch a Star Trek episode and it be completely relevant to the discussion??? Nowhere else but Dr. Harris class. We learned about the importance of language and understanding in the face of adversity and how important it is to try and understand each other.

1. Is Captain Dathon's sacrifice worth it? Why?

Captain Dathon says a lot about himself and a lot about his people through his death. The whole experience was so that they could come together in a time of trouble and form a lasting friendship, like the friendship that was formed between Darmok and Gilad. Even through Captain Dathon's death we still see Picard form an understanding with the Tamarians that could eventually lead to a friendship and alliance given time and a better understanding.

2. What did Captain Picard gain from this experience?

I think that he learns not to take preconceived notions into an exchange. What might seem like a threat in one culture may be a common exchange or custom in another culture. Such was the case when Picard and Dathon were beamed to El Adrell. Picard thought that Dathon wanted to fight him when in fact he was handing him a knife for self-defense against the beast on the island. What picard thought was a fight turned out to be a bonding experience through the hunt.

Descriptive MGP EDRG 3344 T/R

This is based on Victorian England and it is for High School Seniors.

The Life I lead.

Wind whistles through the trees,
They reach toward the sky,
Looking for something unattainable.
Much like me. I want to be free
To do things my own way,
To live the life I chose.
Manners and Propriety suffocate,
Free-spirits crushed,
Molded into who they want,
Submissive, passionless, naïve,
A trophy to hold, not a person.
Chattle, property, debased
This is the life I lead
Would you like to be me?

Expository EDRG 3344 T/R

So this is what I have right now. It will have more detail to it as I am able to do more research for it.

Victorian Female Dress

The Victorian woman dresses for modesty. They are covered from wrist to ankle and never show much more skin than their hands and maybe their feet, this is the basic standard for middle class Victorian women. This unfortunately was not the case for working class women whose clothes were often times ripped and worn because they could not afford to darn their clothing.

For middle class Victorian women fashion was very important and the styles changed drastically through the mid to late Victorian era. Women went from wearing bustles to not wearing them at all. Hard Bustles were made from the same materials as a hoop skirt except it was just in the back of the dress and not all around as it once was. After a time bustles became nothing but fabric layered upon fabric which added weight to the dresses. Dressed changed to form fitting with no bustles and just a long train down the back often referred to as the Princess Line.

The undergarments are much the same as they were in the times before. Petticoats became more ornamental and more like lingerie. They came in different colors with flowers on them and more design to them. Corsets were worn because the 18 inch waist was still the ideal size, and having a synched waist was the in-style thing at the time.
 

EDRG 3344 T/R: Persuasive

This will be a brochure with pictures but for right now here is the text.

Would you allow your children to work in these conditions and be subject to this kind of punishment or back breaking labor?
*children are being beaten for poor workmanship
*they stand in one position all day
*breath in soot and fibers
*have malformations of bones because of hard labor and bending over all day
*their feet splay because they put constant weight on one foot instead of both

If you wouldn't allow this to happen to your own children why allow it to happen to someone elses children.
*fight for better working conditions for these children if they have to work
*fight for higher working ages so that the children's bones won't become malformed because of the hard work
*fight for higher wages for the parents so their children won't have to work
*fight to end child labor

EDRG 3344 T/R: Narrative

This is my first revision of my Narrative. It is a day in the life of a Victorian Woman. This was written for Seniors in High School.

My mornings start at 7 am. I awake to the bells that toll on the hour in the town square. This particular morning the floor is ice cold and I light a candle so that I can start breakfast for my husband and 3 children. The floor creaks as I make my way down the stairs to the Kitchen. I light more candles in the kitchen and get the fireplace in the kitchen going and start the stove to cook breakfast. We are unfortunately to poor to afford a kitchen servant or a servant of any kind. We are lucky enough, however, that I and my children do not have to work in those harsh textile mills like so many families here do. My name is Charlotte Bronson and I am a middle class woman living in a suburb of the City of London.

My husband Charles and I first moved here 4 years ago when he received a promotion that moved us from the small town we grew up in to Rural London. We have 3 children Edward, Mary and Matthew. Edward is 10 years old, and Mary and Matthew are 6. They are the dearest things to my heart other than my husband. Edward and Matthew favor their father and Mary favors my looks. They are very handsome children.
After breakfast is cooked, if my children and husband have not awakened, I go to their rooms and wake them. With the mention of breakfast they are quickly out of bed and head to the table. This morning we have toast with butter and jam and some sausage. After breakfast is finished and dishes washed it is time for school for my children. They are homeschooled; this is one of the many tasks that mothers are supposed to aspire to. This is one of the disciplines of the idea of Separate Spheres.

After their lessons are completed they go to play for a while outside with other children on the neighborhood. I clean the house while they are outside and they soon return for lunch. One of the ladies who live near call around 2 pm and we sit and chat about the latest gossip of the neighborhood and have tea and cakes, that I had baked earlier on in the day.

Around 6pm my husband will return from his work and I will have dinner made for him and the children, Mary assists me. This evening we make some bread and fish with small potatoes. Mary helps me mix the batter for the bread and rolls it into a large ball to bake in the oven. I boil the potatoes and cook the fish with some oil. The process of making dinner takes about 2 hours and I start it about an hour before my husband is set to return home from work. I plate the dinner as Mary sets out the plates and cups for everyone and we all join in the dining room for dinner. The children talk to their father about their day and what they learned, I ask my husband about his day at work and talk to him about what he would like for dinner tomorrow night so that the children and I can go to the market tomorrow for the food necessary to prepare dinner.

After dinner has been finished the children are sent to wash and get into bed. I read them a bed-time story, kiss them and put out their candle. After the children are in bed my husband and I sit in our small sitting room and he drinks a glass of whiskey before we head upstairs to bed. Thus is the day in the life of a Victorian Woman from the middle class.

EDRG 3344 T/R Talking in the Classroom

What would a classroom be without talking? Pretty much a prison and your kids will sit there twiddling their thumbs with the information you are spouting out goes in one ear and out the other. Talking is very important and conducive to the learning experiences of every child and teenagers. Talking improves the social abilities of every student in the classroom. This will enhance their abilities later in life by talking to people they don't know or by being able to converse with people they work with or they work for. Talking also increases language proficiency especially with younger children. With older students talking helps increase their vocabulary as well as being able to talk in a more academic and professional manner that helps once they have a job. When students are given something to talk about it makes them think and allows them to make new connections between common topics and strengthen old connections between topics. This increases their knowledge base which helps later in life because you never know when you might need the information. When students have to explain something in their words they have to reason their way through it and are more likely to remember it than if you told them how to do it. Working through math problems out loud not only helps the student but those around them because it might be in terms that they understand better. Doing group work allows students to learn from their fellow students and get new perspectives that they might not normally have gotten. They learn more about the students around them and gain new information about different cultures and experiences that others have had. I personally like doing group work because I see new ways of looking at things through the eyes of someone else and I also learn best by talking things out or explaining something to someone else. I intend to have groups and allow talking in my classroom once I begin to teach. It might get out of hand every once in a while but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

EDRG 3344 T/R-Warm Memory

So this is a warm memory that I have and love to remember.

I got really sick one day and had to be sent home because i was running a fever. My mom was at work and couldn't pick me up and so my mom's father came to get me. I went to his house and when i got there my grandmother had the couch ready with a pillow and a fitted sheet over the cushions like a makeshift bed so I could watch TV. She brought me some Sprite and my grandfather had started some Chicken and Noodles for his "favorite" grandchild. This was a common occurrence when i was sick, he would make me some Homemade Chicken and Noodles. So I laid there sipping my Sprite and watching Lady and the Tramp. That was the movie that I always watched when I was sick and my grandfather would rewind it and I would watch it again and again. I was spoiled by my grandfather because I am the only granddaughter and the oldest of the grandchildren.

EDRG 3344 T/R Blog #4

Okay so here is my R.A.F.T. story. R stands for Role, A for Audience, F for Format and T for Topic.

R- Bones
A- Me
F- Letter
T- Body Health

Dear Meghan,

It’s your bones here. I need to talk to you about better ways to keep us healthy. First off what is up with you not drinking enough milk? It’s good for you and helps us stay strong. We are the things that keep you standing up right and keep you moving. Without us you would just be a giant blob of skin and muscle and that wouldn’t be any fun now would it.You aren’t getting enough calcium and unless you want us to get weaker and our body to have a calcium deficiency you had better get to drinking milk ma’am.All sorts of problems can occur as we age like getting weaker and if you fall when you get older we will break a lot easier and take a lot more time to heal. Another thing is that you need to start taking your vitamins so that the rest of our body doesn’t start malfunctioning and so we stay strong and healthy. You can get all sorts of other health problems if you don’t get the right amounts of Vitamins and Minerals and some of these conditions could even lead to pre-mature death. We also need vitamins and minerals other than calcium, though that is really important to our development and continued strength as we continue to get older. So please help us and help yourself by taking you vitamin and drinking Milk.

Sincerely,
Your Bones

EDRG 3344 T/R Blog #3

1) Explain writing.

Writing is a PROCESS. It consists of 5 steps. These steps are Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing. Pre-writing is the process of brainstorming. Drafting is creating an outline and a rough draft. Revising is adding and deleting sections of your rough draft along with working on elaboration and sentence structure. Editing is looking for conventional errors like capitalization and spelling errors. Revising and Editing are often confused with eachother. The final step is Publishing which is exactly what it says, turning in your final draft or displaying it for everyone to see.

2) Final Draft of in-class story.

The year is 1965 and it is the era of the Hollywood Starlett and the Debonair hollywood gentleman. It is the time of the comedy variety shows of Johnny Carson and Dean Martin. The crooning of Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

It was May and I was spending the week with a girlfriend of mine in New York. She lived on the Lower East Side and it was the first time in over a year I had seen her. She had the whole week planned out and one of the many things we were going to do was go to a taping of the Dean Martin Show. She had bought the tickets as soon as she found out Gene Kelly would be a guest. I am a huge fan of Gene Kelly. I loved him in Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris. This was one of the many reason's she bought the tickets.

We spent 2 hours getting ready for the taping and headed to the studio where it was being taped. We knew we were in for a night of hilarity and most likely peeing in our pants, or in this case skirts. Just as we had expected it was hilarious. Dean sang as always, Gene did a song from Singin' in the Rain and then they sang a duet. After the end of the show we hung out for a while in hopes of getting some autographs and we did. Gene and Dean signed our books for us and thanked us for coming. We were two of the lucky few who stayed after and got their autographs.

At the end of the week I flew home. I was sad to leave but needed to return for the start of school. On my flight home i stared at my autographs and remembered the amazing night we had. It was the best day of my life.

Blog #2 EDRG 3344 T/R

So this blog needs to answer these questions.


What are some examples of pre/during/post strategies, and how do these strategies help students?

Some pre-strategies for reading a book are doing a journal with the kids about what they think the book will be about. Show them the first few pictures in the novel and ask them to predict what they think will happen next. This makes them use their imaginations and gives them the ability to use critical thinking skills in order to, from looking at the pictures, predict what will happen next.

Some strategies to use while reading the book is to use some things from the book and pull them out while reading the book and pass them around the class. It will give them some outside association with the book so in the future they see those items that you passed around they will remember the books.

Some post reading strategies would be to quiz them about the book. Take some of the items that you used for the book and take new items that weren't in the book and quiz your students about what was and was not in the book. It helps with their comprehension and retention.

EDRG 3344 TR #1

Ok so this blog is supposed to be our thoughts on the things that we learned in class this last week so here it goes. In reflecting over the week and what we have learned have reinforced quite a few things that i know and knew about myself. In taking the Multiple intelligences survey developed by Howard Gardner, I learned that i was a Musical and Intrapersonal strength and in a strong second a Visual strength. I have always known that i am a Musical Strength. I constantly liten to it but it is also very easy for me to recall things if I associate a song with them. I was alittle surprised that i was as strong an Intrapersonal strength as i was. I love doing group work but i do alos like doing some things on my own so I guess that makes sense. My very close second strength was Visual and that makes alot of sense to me. I am a Visual and Kinesthetic Learner so it is always easier for me to accomplish things if I see and do things hands on.
In going over the 5 general learning strategies I recognized a few things that i still do to this day. I am a rehearsal, organization and elaboration person. I love learning more about subjects and the more i know about one the more i am likely to remember. I hate being unorganized when it comes to my notes and things. I learn so much better when things are in their order and it makes things less stressful for me. When it comes to rehearsal I repeat information to myself constantly inorder to remember it. I have done this for a long time and it was something i picked up in Choir because we had to have songs memorized by the third time we had run them through so that we didn't have to use the music when we were on stage.
In going back over all of this i need to re-modify the way that i study so that i know i can learn more effectively.

One of those days

Today has been one of those days. The AC at my house is currently broken and will not be fixed until tomorrow sometime, that is unless they call and say they are backed up and won't be able to get to it til Thursday. It has been broken since Sunday so this is day 3 of no AC. I am quite astonished that i have not managed to pass out due to heat exhaustion in my house and sleeping is a joke. I don't know about you but i do not like to sleep when i am sweating. It is the least comfortable thing to do. If you like to sweat while you sleep you are absolutely without a doubt insane.

Well back to the task at hand. I am currently awaiting the beginning of my final class for the day and i cannot enter the building until 3:50 because they use it during the school year. I am excited for this semester though it will be stressful and test my time-management abilities to their fullest. I am taking 2 Senior level english classes and a history class along with a Language Arts class, which is what this blog is for. I have, if i counted correctly, 20 papers to write on top of various tests, projects and field hours that i have to do. This will be my hardest semester in my going on 4 years of college.

Well that is all for now. Have a great evening.