Alana and I decided to create a Mini Unit on word families to go along with the book “Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. We have created this Mini Unit for Kindergarten aged students who are beginning to grasp … Continue reading Dr. Seuss Mini Unit
Written by: Maria Bonaddio and Alyssa Agolia Welcome to our Blog Post! If we were to teach 5th graders, we would like to teach them about the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took … Continue reading Great Gatsby Through Literature Circles
Welcome to my third blog post! In our second blog post, Kaitlynn and I explained how we will be discussing F. Scott Fitzgeralds, The Great Gatsby. We are aiming to gear our lesson plan towards middle and high school students. We chose this age group because there is so much important history that was occuring at the time period of which The Great Gatsby takes place in. The roaring twenties was such an important time in American history and one that I have learned about in depth, throughout my years of schooling. The Great Gatsby is a book gearned towards … Continue reading Third Blog Post
As this century’s version of the Roaring 20s is vastly approaching, here is a recap on what our last blog post addressed! In our last blog post, we introduced the idea of teaching The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald to students at a middle and high school level. We chose the book because we thought it was a great representation of what the Roaring 20s looked like one hundred years ago. Although it does not address all the events that occurred during this time period, it does get a little more personal. Essentially, we chose this book because students … Continue reading The Great Gatsby
Welcome back to my Blog Post! If you read last weeks post, you learned that The Great Gatsby is a novel I would like to teach my future 5th grade class! I would love to teach this novel because I … Continue reading The Great Gatsby and Literature Circles
For this project, my partner, Gabby, and I have come up with a Mini Unit to help students engage with the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Our intended age range for this Mini Unit is Kindergarten. … Continue reading Blog Post #3
While thinking about childhood and reading, one thing that comes to mind is how fascinating colors and pictures are to young children. Not only does it … Continue reading The Importance of Imagination and Rhyming
Hi, I’m Gabby Barbera and welcome to my second blog post! It has come to the point in our Research Project where we must finalize our desired topic for the project. I tossed around many ideas but then came to a conclusion about young children. One thing they love to do is draw. Not only does it keep them occupied, but it gives them an outlet to be creative and explore their own imagination. I’ve found that Dr Seuss has particularly creative artwork in his children’s story books. My entire childhood I read Dr Seuss and have always loved his … Continue reading Blog post #2
Hi everyone, my name is Cameryn Criscione and welcome back to my blog post! The text I will be focusing my research on is “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have chosen this text because Emerson’s work explores the ideas of how experiences shape our lives, how growth can be scary and painful, but also how it is necessary, and why it is essential to choose truth. I am gearing my teaching tool to fifth and sixth graders, depending on the state in which they live. I believe this lesson plan is best for the highest level of elementary school … Continue reading Education Builds “Self-Reliance”
Hello, my name is Maria Bonaddio and welcome back to my teaching blog! If I were to teach 5th graders, I would like to teach them about the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in the 1920s within America. This era is when both new styles of music and dance emerged. I would love to teach students about the culture of this era including the history of flappers, musicians, filmmakers, athletes, entertainers and more. During this time, the people of America went through many social and political changes. For the first time, … Continue reading Great Gatsby Lesson Plan
By Kaitlynn Castro and Marykate Gorham As we wrap up the final year of the decade, we are soon entering this generations’ version of the Roaring 20’s. In honor of this, we have decided to focus our final research project on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The students we are aiming to teach this book to are middle and high school students. We intend on using interpersonal, intrapersonal and linguistics for Gardner’s components of intelligence. All three of these intelligences were used throughout the book, and we plan on explaining when these intelligences are present in the book. … Continue reading The Great Gatsby
American Literature for Elementary Education 