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■ SWChronicle EDU© The Collegian ■ By Teach Thought© Digital Literacy is being able to make sense of digital media. It includes the ability to analyze, prioritize, and act upon the countless digital media 21st century citizens encounter on a PIN US ON PINTEREST Travel The Pass © I needed a better way to communicate and collaborate with my students and for them to access help when they needed it and the resources that would help them to be successful. I found a tool called Blendspace. I used it as a method of curating re- ASK YOURSELF Are sketch notes simple to make? “As you can see via our examples, they’re not simple words and pictures together–well, done badly they are. But done well, they tell a story while recording and documenting important information in a highly visible, elegant, and sh areable way. Helping students understand how to take proper sketch notes isn’t as simple as sharing these images and say “do this” (though that’s a start). Like all learning, it’s a matter of modeling, scaffolding, and patience. Hopefully our examples on page 9– including the classic How to Read a Book and Seth God’s Stop Stealing Dreams--will help you get started with this new spin on “post-it” evolution!– Teach Thought©2013 ■ The SWChronicle EDU© The Collegian ■ By Teach Thought© 1 a. b. Blendspace can be used to create a lesson using the TES Resources tab, then shared with students through their class account or through a direct link. Regardless of how the lesson is shared, students have access to many resources and can learn asynchronously outside of the classroom, on their own schedule, using whatever device they choose. This means that, in ideal circumstances, learning can take place anywhere at any time. drives, losing valuable class time opening emails and attachments. All of the student projects can be added by their URL or uploaded into one lesson, given it a title, and in class, only one lesson has to be opened to display the student work for the class to enjoy. FOR EDUCATORS BY EDUCATORS • Gain increasing awareness of how societal issues can be the centerpiece for themes and forms of drama. • Probe the ways philosophical and psychological theories shape themes and forms of drama. • Explore the nature of the modern “tragic hero.” • Explicate and appreciate the power of visual and auditory expressionistic elements to help shape set design, narrative, characterization, and theme in the building of dramatic scripts. • Craft essays of critical analysis. • Recognize elements that build artistic tension in dramatic scripts. 1. Have students read the Biographical Information of Eugene O’Neill. 2. You may wish to distribute the Vocabulary handout to the students before they conduct this assignment. 1. Ask two or three students to go to the board. Ask each participant to draw some kind of line diagram that represents the basic structural movement of the play. Ask each participant to clarify the rationale behind his/her graphic representation. Teachers should familiarize themselves with O’Neill’s work. O’Neill, Eugene. Four Plays by Eugene O’Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon. Signet Classics, 1998. If you are teaching an 11th or 12th grade class, and/or an AP/IB class, you may wish to introduce the lesson with a more complicated but valuable Introductory Activity, which uses The Education of Henry Adams (1918) to introduce ideas and themes about industrialized society in the early 20th century. Students should be familiar with O’Neill and the types of plays he wrote. BILINGÜE SIN FRONTERAS Who shares what to whom through what channels can not only determine the long-term success of the media, but can create organic ecosystems of sourcing, sharing, storing, and ultimately repackaging media. Curation Is the ability to understand, store & use information. e/i 1. Have students read as much of the play as possible aloud in class. 10 Social Factors Primary instructor ■ The SWChronicle EDU© TEACHER LESSON PLAN ories and thinkers of his day. This lesson may be used in conjunction with the Illusion and Reality in American Drama unit concerning Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. How one media form connects with another, whether potentially, metaphorically, ideally, or literally. Building a lesson for any level or discipline is easy with Blendspace. Simply choose your topic and by using the TES Resource tools provided such as Google Search, Educreations, Google Drive, Dropbox, uploads from your computer, and more, you can quickly build a lesson. THECOLLEGIAN Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape presents a disheartening assessment of the impact of living in the industrialized society of the early 20th century. This lesson explores the ways O’Neill portrays a world in which spiritual, communal, and behavioral values of the past have been displaced by the lure of technology and materialism and by patterns of cultural barbarism. It also explores the principle of digital literacy is simply comprehension–the ability to extract implicit and explicit ideas from a media. The Southwest Chronicle Edu© Since 2008 Understanding Genres, Analyzing and Evaluating Critique Printable Bio - Eugene O’Neill Vocabulary - Uncivil Civilization in the Hairy Ape Study Topics - Uncivil Civilization in the Hairy Ape Essay - Uncivil Civilization in the Hairy Ape Technology 1 Computer per Learner Teaching Approach Arts Integration Thematic Teaching Methods Discovery Learning Discussion Experiential Learning Throughout the nation, standards of learning are being revised, published and adopted. During this time of transition, we will continually add connections to the Common Core, Next Generation Science standards and other standards to our existing lessons, in addition to the previous versions of the National Standards across the subject areas.

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