Margaret and I decided to create a lesson plan on immigration to help educators teach this important lesson better. We both agreed that immigration shapes America into what it is today, and students need to understand that. Even at a … Continue reading Immigration Lesson Plan
Welcome back to my final blog post. To keep everyone updated, Margaret and I are creating a formal lesson plan on how to teach second or third graders about the important topic of immigration in America, through the book All … Continue reading Final Post
Hi, my name is Michelle Lin and welcome to my second blog post! For my lesson plan, I would be using Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance. Emerson is I would focus on 5th -6th-grade students who’re about to enter middle school. This type of literature is great because it focuses on Realism. It also defines individualism, which most fifth to sixth graders will start to experience as they soon transition into middle school. While reading this text, students will learn to trust their intuitions and believe in themselves. For this lesson, I would be using 3 of Gardner’s intelligence. In this lesson, … Continue reading Self-Reliance
My name is Angela Hill and welcome back to my teaching blog! As written in my last post, I would like to teach second or third graders about immigration. Many students of that age may understand that their nationalities can … Continue reading How America Came to Be
I knew from my junior year of high school that I wanted to be an elementary school teacher someday. When I reflect back to my earlier years as a student, my favorite subject in school was always reading and writing. I’ve always loved reading and writing stories and even essays. I am thinking that I would like to teach something along the lines of this. One of the literary periods that has caught my attention is Romanticism. After reading a little bit about it I have learned that if focuses on art, literature and even music in Western Civilization. When … Continue reading Bridget Mosher’s First Teaching Blog
For my final project I’ve decided to research and focus on the naturalist period. This period started in 1870 and lasted until 1910. Naturalism is a literary genre that started as a movement in the late nineteenth century in literature, film, theater, and art. It is a type of extreme realism. This movement suggested the roles of family, social conditions, and environment in shaping human character. Many famous naturalist American authors include people such as Mark Twain, Fredrick Douglas, Stephen Crane as well as many others. Along with the naturalism movement came the realism period as well. Realism focused on … Continue reading Naturalist
I am interested in looking at realist literature. Realism was a literary and artistic movement that followed Romanticism. Realism is characterized by the choice of the everyday, the use of very typical and authentic settings, believable characters, and very relatable plot lines. Issues of class, money, gender, and geographic location often appear in these works. When reading works from this literary period, readers ca often sympathize with the characters as they are having problems that many people can relate to. For this assignment, I would focus on the novel Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. I believe that this … Continue reading Realism Period
My name is Angela Hill and welcome to my teaching blog! After brainstorming and researching different topics I could use for my final project, I have decided that I really like the topic of immigration experiences. This is a very … Continue reading Teaching on Immigration
American Literature for Elementary Education 