Beginning Teachers' Conference 2012

Welcome new teachers!

Some of the best advice I received when I was a beginning teacher was stick with it for 3 years...I'm now in my 4th year :)


Shakespeare

• Survivor Macbeth! (ELA 20-1) - link to unit resources & suggestions

• The Tempest (ELA 30-1)
• Act I, scene i - "the boat" scene with modern translation - set up the illusion and magic of the theatre
• Vocabulary based on videos from Vocabahead
• 4-colour flags/highlighting
• The Tempest 2010 film (Dir: Julie Taymor)
• Act II & III Radio Plays (GarageBand on Macs or Audacity on PC) - 25 lines or so per pair
• Act Quizzes based on characterization/theme/symbolism & key quotations
• "Socratic Seminar"/Discussion - questions tweaked from this study guide
• Essay question: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the impact of an individual’s ambition on self and others.

Strategies to help students & keep me sane!

• Goodbye chapter questions...
• 4-colour flags/highlighting
• Characterization, Setting/Tone/Mood, Themes, Essential Figurative Language/Literary Devices
• "Sticky Note Questions"
• Essay Breakdown

Competencies (Strategies - Reading & Viewing - Writing - Speaking & Representing)

• Bias, Character, Figurative Language/Literacy Devices, Film Techniques & Visuals, Genre & Form, Mood/Atmosphere, Plot, POV & Perspective, Purpose & Audience, Setting, Theme/Controlling Idea/Statement of Belief, Tone