Welcome to our final project! Michelle and I have created a PowerPoint that is designed to help teach students about the principles of transcendentalism that are depicted in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance.” The PowerPoint, which can be accessed through the … Continue reading The Tenets of Transcendentalism in Disney Movies
By: Alicia Briley & Amber Harrison Teaching Guide Welcome Everyone to “The Raven” Podcast! Here is a podcast created for other fellow present and future educators that are interested in teaching the Gothic and Romantic literary periods to their elementary … Continue reading “The Raven” Podcast
Project Description: Hi welcome to our project! Mallory and I be discussing “The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. We are going to use a lesson plan to explain the story. The first slide is an initiation, which will include a video showcasing one of the important lessons in the story. We want the students to not only be able to answer the questions but find references in the story. We want you to tell us how the story makes you feel. As the PowerPoint goes on, we will discuss three intelligences: Spatial, Interpersonal, and Interpersonal. We have several activities … Continue reading Welcome to our Lesson Plan!
Welcome to my last and final blog post! It has been very fun building my final project this semester. I really enjoyed putting together all the final touches for the project on teaching Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” My … Continue reading Reflection on How to Teach “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Hi again, my name is Cameryn and welcome back to my final blog post! At this stage, my partner, Michelle, and I have completed all of our research for the project. We have found credible and academic sources that are … Continue reading Reflection on Identifying Transcendentalism in Disney Movies
Welcome back to my blog post! It has been a pleasure to share our project with you. As we come to an end, we like to share some of our experiences when creating this project. Camyeron and I worked hard … Continue reading Final Reflection: Self-Reliance
By: Alicia Briley Throughout the research project, I’ve had many successes. I consider the ability to come up with artistic ideas and work together with my partner quite a success. I think my greatest achievement for this project would be … Continue reading Reflection on “The Raven”
This project has brought a lot of successes for the both of us. I think my greatest achievement is that I now view myself as a more creative person because I had to stretch my mind when creating ideas and … Continue reading Reflection on Researching “The Raven”
Wouldn’t it be fun to teach the principles of transcendentalism through Disney movies? The reading for this lesson is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance. To make this lesson age-appropriate and easier to understand, Cameryn and I thought that it would … Continue reading Transcendentalism in Disney
Hi, Everyone, welcome to my third blog post! I hope you are as excited as I am to talk to you about “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe. I understand that Poe is really morbid and creepy, but they are very important underlying themes that can be found in his stories, but we will only be focusing on this story today. My partner and I have created a lesson plan for this story so get ready to dig deep and start thinking about possible themes and lessons that this story is trying to send to its readers. Our goals … Continue reading Blog Post #3
With the recent launch of Disney plus, we thought what better way to teach students about the principles of transcendentalism that are depicted in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance” than through Disney movies? In order to teach this work successfully … Continue reading The Tenets of Transcendentalism in Disney Movies
By: Alicia Briley The literary period of Romanticism was artistic, musical and an intellectual movement that originated in Europe. Romanticism focused on emotion and individualism as well as nature. The Gothic literary period of American literature is just a sub-genre of Romanticism. The Gothic period occurred from the year 1800 to 1850. Since Gothic literature is a branch of fiction presented through many combinations of horror, mystery and romantic elements. Our lesson plan will be focusing on teaching 4th graders a poem. We decided on “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and the teaching tool will be doing is a … Continue reading “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe being Taught to 4th Grade Elementary Students Through Musical & Natural Intelligences
The gothic and romantic are classic literary time periods in English that many readers enjoy. “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe is a representative example of these literary periods, and is a poem that many know and love. In order to effectively teach this work to a fourth-grade class, we have decided to create a podcast as a resource for fellow elementary educators to listen to and take ideas from. In the project, we want to focus on Gardner’s naturalistic and musical intelligences. I believe this is a great resource for other educators because with our podcast, we can be … Continue reading Approaching “The Raven” Using Music and Nature. Geared for Elementary Students.
The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is by Edgar Allen Poe. It is a very morbid story, but Poe always leaves behind an important lesson for all of his readers. In this story the message is that guilt can ruin us and destroy people. It is better to be honest and set your guilt free. As a future educator it is part of my job to constantly keep the children engaged. I know that this can be a difficult thing for teachers to deal with and that is where the mutiple intelligences come in. Every student learns in a different … Continue reading The Tell Tale Heart
I have decided that I would like to teach, “The raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a classic piece of literature in the Romantic and Gothic period. I would like to pursue this piece of work because on the … Continue reading Exploring Romanticism and ‘The Raven”
By: Alicia Briley Amber and I have chosen to do our research on ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe. We have chosen to reflect on this poem because it has a great amount of symbolism and tells an interesting tale. … Continue reading Teaching “The Raven” through Creativity
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
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”
Hi everyone welcome to blog post number two! When majoring in education, it is insightful to manufacture a pleasant teaching style. Something that I strive for my students is to use a various series of intelligences. Every student learns at a different pace and different style. An important segment to keep in mind is trying to keep the students intrigued and eager to learn new material. Some students learn visually, cooperative learning and inquiry based. By teaching with a variety of learning techniques, this reaches the accommodations for all students. A great story that I believe impacts young minds is … Continue reading Importance of a Powerful message
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
One era that I am personally interested in would be the Romantic era. I feel that the romantic era was the first time anyone has really read about emotion, love, and affection. During the Romantic era, most people were considered conservatives. During that era, authors and even artists started to express themselves in words and pictures. I personally love to read about love and emotion, so I am very interested in this time period. The Romantic era also touches upon nature, using personification in its poems. I would teach the romantic era/period with poems and short stories by the famous authors during … Continue reading Romantic era
My name is Cameryn Criscione and as a future teacher, I hold many thoughts on how to bring a sense of the importance of American literature to the elementary school level. One interest I am currently exploring is teaching a … Continue reading Empowering Students to Become “Self-Reliant”
As a future educator, I have many ideas about what I would like to teach inAmerican literature and how I would like to teach it. Currently, my focus iseither on the early colonial literary period or the Romantic period. In myexperience I find these literary eras capture the true American spirit as wellas helps shape the next generation of young writers. Specifically, JohnathanEdward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and PhillisWheatley’s “To the University of Cambridge, in New England” arepieces I find that elementary students will understand while still capturingwhat the early colonial period is about. As for … Continue reading Exploring Romaticism and Colonial America
During my junior year in high school, the most interesting topic I remember learning in literature was Romanticism. Romanticism was a social, religious, and movement that was a reaction against the strict traditions and ideas of the Enlightenment. In the Enlightenment, individual thinking and creativity were restricted and religious ideas followed stern laws of the Church. The Romantic period started in continental Europe, Germany, and France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and then it reached England. I remember being amazed at how Romanticism was successful in alerting young and ordinary people to new points of view that … Continue reading The Interest In Romanticism
American Literature for Elementary Education 