Welcome to our final project! For our final project, we focused on the children’s book “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. This book focuses on many important life lessons that will help children to expand their social skills and help … Continue reading The Dot and Teaching Students to Express Their Creativity
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Hi I’m Madie Schlossberg and welcome back to my blog! The novel my partner, Sydney, and I chose is the famous American author, Judy Blume’s, “Blubber.” This novel is important to elementary grades, specifically 4thand 5thgrade. “Blubber” touches upon a … Continue reading On Standing Up for Others
Upon reflecting and researching for my first blog post about teaching interests, I realized I have quite a few interests that could be beneficial for this project. I found that I do not have an interest in a specific time … Continue reading Dr. Seuss and American History
Hi everyone, my name is Grace Walker and welcome to my first blog post! Since the first time I was introduced to the literary era of the “Roaring 20’s” in my high school American Studies class, I knew I was … Continue reading The Road from the Roaring 20’s to the Great Depression
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
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”
American Literature for Elementary Education 