ELA Lessons for Middle School including TNReady and Common Core

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60+ Lessons for TNReady and Common Core Middle School Classrooms Including: Skill-Based Lessons, Project-Based Learning, Anchor Charts, Reading Strategies, Formative + Summative Assessments, and Writing Tasks

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November 27, 2015November 27, 2015 by Mara Truslow Storey Categories: education, lesson plans, PBL, research based solutions, Standardized Testing, Teachers Pay Teachers, teaching reading, teaching writing, test preparation, TNReadyTags: 7th Grade ELA, assessment design, common core, english, language arts, lesson plan, teachers pay teachers, teaching reading, TNReady Leave a comment

Reflections on Space: Redefining the Learning Landscape

Turning the key ninety degrees clockwise initiates a daily routine that runs like clockwork: elevator down 4 floors; walk one block west and 3 blocks south; descend escalator; stand perpendicular to train doors; board; five stops; transfer; dodge and divert to escalator; board; 7 stops; 120 seconds ascending back to ground level (you’re close when you feel gusts of un-circulated air); walk 1 block east, two blocks south; scan ID to enter building; elevator up; locate work station; open laptop; power on.

A commute evolves into to a sterile routine. This commute, now an innate habit, is the connecting force between the two dominant spaces in my life: work and home.

Food Service Cart AKA My Classroom

A confluence of changes has me thinking about where I am and the spaces I move through:
1. Moving from Nashville to DC
2. Teaching the last two years
3. My indoctrination into the world of skyscrapers and cubicles

I’ve wondered how space affects our mental livelihood; from office cubicles to 40-year-old schools, how should we construct physical spaces to nourish our creativity, drive productivity, motivate our learning, and keep people comfortable enough to focus, but focused enough to make progress?

While these questions have festered in transit between the two spaces where most of my life plays out, they’ve grown in the unpacking of boxes, subsequent decorating, and the continued development of teaching materials as I’ve stepped out of the classroom.

The two most pressing questions I want to dig into are:
How do we create learning spaces for students that meet the needs of the 21^st century?
When will a classroom with rows of desks be an obsolete way to assimilate and apply knowledge, or are we already past that point?
Exploring the answer to these questions will draw from the history of the office, mapping the psychological needs that a home satiates, and using the intersection of schools, homes, and offices to identify key design elements of the 21st century school.

The space we live in, our first home; work in, our second home; and navigate through in the interim via public transportation, cars, and at the behest of our own bodies paints the landscape of our lives. Beauty is more often sought in nature and art than the structures where we spend most of our lives. When did you last think of your office as a place of natural beauty, where the mind meshes with the environment to produce knowledge, products, solutions? And what could beauty mean in home and office? Is it in dimly lit lamps, sturdy furniture, or the final flourishes of candles and pictures? Is it a space for entertaining, cooking, relaxing, reading, sleeping? Is a beautiful office defined by flexible work spaces, a space you call your own, a space for collaboration, light from outside, or a chair offering optimal back support?

Unlike offices, classroom spaces are an under-explored phenomenon. After spending two years teaching, I found that the architecture of schools arcane: computer labs are dysfunctional, arcane heating and cooling systems mean summer and winter temperatures co-exist in a single hall; pests plague classrooms,  desks are mismatched and lined in rows, and classrooms are separated by cinderblock walls. I’ll add with equal force that this is no fault of the teachers and school administrators.  Teachers have ostensibly lost control of everything but the four walls inside their classrooms: standards are handed down from the state, tests and benchmarks from mega-corporations; as a result, school buildings are the last place school funding reaches.

Lessons Learned: Work & Home

This is an exercise in reimagining what the classroom space can look like. Drawing from the ethos of  Common Core, this is an interdisciplinary approach relying on the history of the office and what makes home a place to rejuvenate fulfilling the eternal desire to live driven by purpose.

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 by Mara Truslow Storey Categories: charter schools, education, education reform, research based solutions, Standardized Testing, teaching reading, teaching writing, technology, Thoughts, UncategorizedTags: common core, teaching reading Leave a comment

Authors Craft + Rhetorical Devices Anchor Chart & Quick Reference for Students

WHAT IS IT?
★ An anchor chart that can be blown up and posted in your room
★ A one-page quick reference for students to use all year when analyzing authors craft and rhetorical devices.

WHAT’S THE CONTENT?
★ 7 Rhetorical Devices Defined and Compared to a Tool
★ Purpose for each Rhetorical Device Clearly Explained
★ All 3 Sides of the Rhetorical Triangle Included & Labeled
★ Author’s Craft & Rhetorical Device Defined
★ RI 7.2, 7.5, 7.8, 7.9 (This can and should be used for middle and high schoolers alike.)

HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO COMMON CORE/ TN READY?
How do you teach students to trace and evaluate the argument in a text -or- analyze the structure of a text and how each section contributes to the central idea?

This is dense content, especially for middle schoolers; the standards covered are foundational CCCS (and/or TNReady) standards.

September 22, 2015November 13, 2015 by Mara Truslow Storey Categories: lesson plans, nashville, TNReadyTags: anchor chart, common core, teachers pay teachers, teaching reading, teaching writing, TNReady Leave a comment