Phil Beadle How to Teach - Teaching tips for new teachers Start Your Literacy Lesson With a Word Cloud Firstly, if you’ve not yet heard of or made word clouds before visit one of the websites below to start making them: We have recently been looking for ways to engage our Key Stage Two learners in improving their understanding of different word types. One way we’ve found to do this has been through the use of word clouds. At the beginning of some literacy lessons we have displayed a word cloud and then set the children the task of listing different types of words that they can find in the word cloud. The example below contains nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The children listed words they thought were examples of each. This could also be carried out using time connectives, conjunctions, alternatives for said or contractions missing apostrophes that need adding and so on… The word clouds are easily created by coping a list of words into the website. Again, please feel free to add to this post by commenting below.
AS Level Media: Use of The Camera, Camerawork should be analysed in three ways: Framing - distance, angle, viewpoint of camera from subjectMovement - of the camera in relation to the subjectComposition - where the subject(s) appear within the frame of the pictureComposition Rule of Thirds - divide the shot screen into 9, the main points of interest are in the centre. Golden Mean - points of interest are balanced along the diagonal line Framing camera's distance from the subject camera's angle in relation to the subjectpoint of view Long Shot Extreme Long Shot Mid Shot Close Up Extreme Close Up High Angle Shot Low Angle Shot Point of View Shot Angle in Relation to the Subject ... High Angle - Taken from above, looking down on subjectLow Angle - Taken from below, looking up at subject Wide Angle - A lens which allows the audience to see more peripheral details Point of View Shot Key Terms - Framing Key Terms - Movement Pan(Whip Pan)TiltDoly/Tracking ShotZoom CraneSteadiCam/Handheld(Aerial Shot) Flying Cam
Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles 2011Year9English - home Wordclouds in the Classroom There are now a number of online tools which are free to use to create wordclouds (images made from words) from your own text. These wordcloud images create a visual representation of the chosen text, with the frequency of the words in the text determining the relative sizes of each word in the image. Below you will find links to some of these online tools and examples of how they can be used in the classroom. Wordle www.wordle.net can be used to produce wordcloud pictures from text – either by typing it directly into the text box or by copying and pasting from a document. Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom 48 Interesting ways and tips to use Wordle in the classroom: Twenty Top Uses for Wordle: Jonathn Wylie’s Top 10 Ways to Use Wordle’s Word Clouds for Classroom Lessons Tools and Tips for Creating Word Clouds
Nabolister - Watch Movies for Free 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing Summary: Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials. The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below). Table of Contents: 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing 1. Debbie Rotkow, a co-director of the Coastal Georgia Writing Project, makes use of the real-life circumstances of her first grade students to help them compose writing that, in Frank Smith's words, is "natural and purposeful." ROTKOW, DEBBIE. 2003. Back to top 2. 3. 4.
NCTE High School Matters: Annotating text using Google Docs by Tara Seale Recently, I wrote an article for the Google Docs Blog titled Google Docs: the tool for the 21st century classroom. The focus was how to use Google Docs and folders in an English classroom. Besides the ideas in the Google post, my students are also using Google Docs to annotate articles, short passages, or poems. See the annotation doc for the poem "Ozymandias". To create this annotation doc go to Create New>Document. Under Alignment, use the drop down to select Horizontal: Left and Vertical: Top. Repeat the steps for the other cell. Share this document with students as a View Only document. Click on To View. and then insert email addresses in the Invite box. Some example annotations: Ozymandias The Sniper If you are new to Google Docs, and you need to learn more about how to use Google Docs in an English classroom, Google and the Writing Magazine teamed up to create a great Revision Lesson for Teens.
Multimedia Essays « Transmedial Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s works have been around since the 16th century. It continues to flourish even up to now. Among other great writers, his works are most well-known and most adored by people. His works have never been forgotten and survived through the test of time. Different forms of media have already used and commercialized his works. Star Trek writers have accomplished spreading Shakespeare to the world through the use of their works. Spock’s comment refers to some parts of Macbeth, especially the lines of the witches as being badly written and not very Shakespearean. Khamlet (Hamlet) III.i.55ff. Khamlet: taH pagh taHbe’. Here are some Star Trek episodes that refer to Shakespeare’s works: STAR TREK (The Original Series 1966-1969) “Dagger of the Mind” The title is a reference to Macbeth. “The Conscience of the King” The title is a reference to Hamlet. “All Our Yesterdays” The title refers to Macbeth. “Remember Me” The title is taken from Hamlet (I.v.112).
The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender Home > English > Standard > Module A: Experience Through Language > Elective 1: Distinctive Voices > The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender By Marele Day This material was written by Lynne Marsh Background Knowledge The Detective genre Linking the text to the Elective Setting Characters Techniques Themes Other texts Assessment practice Resources “In responding and composing students consider various types and functions of voices in texts. English Stage 6 Prescriptions 2009-2012 page 12 Syllabus Outcomes: Background Knowledge Consider what the term “detective” means to you. Make a list of all the detectives you can think of from literature, television, and motion pictures. What characteristics can be aligned with different detectives? There are five basic elements in a detective story: the milieu, the victim, the criminal, the suspects, and the detective(s). Witnesses are crucial to the investigation and crime solving process. The Detective genre: