How many of you can remember attempting to read Shakespeare for the first time and coming away frustrated and confused? Maybe your students seem to resist the Elizabethan English that sounds so different from Modern English and have trouble understanding the basic plot structures. Fear not- we’ve all been there before. Chances are, we will […]
Entries from September 2006
Much Ado about Shakespeare
September 19th, 2006 · 3 Comments
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Constructivism and English Language Arts
September 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Constructivism: when “instruction becomes less a matter of transmittal of an objective and culturally sanctioned body of knowledge, and more a matter of helping individual learners learn to construct and interpret for themselves” (according to Applebee (1993) as quoted in Appleman (2000).
What an exciting endeavor the field of English Language Arts instruction is! […]
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