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I have a class set now! -Berry

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Offers FREE resources for educators. With their tools, you can teach digital literacy and identifying misinformation.

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What the Fact? Finding Truth in All the Noise

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What the Fact? Finding Truth in All the Noise

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This book by Dr. Seema Yasmin stresses the need for educating students about misinformation.

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What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise

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Amazon.com: What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise: 9781665900034: Yasmin, Dr Seema: Books

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Voice and choice with pluralingual students

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Voice and choice with pluralingual students

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(Book Recs) Hopes and Tropes: Fifty Books in Fifty Minutes 

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(Book Recs) Hopes and Tropes: Fifty Books in Fifty Minutes 

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Self-Evaluation for Success: Students Shining a Light on Their Own Writing

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Self-Evaluation for Success: Students Shining a Light on Their Own Writing

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This session focused on navigating students to look over standards, embed them in the rubric, and evaluate writing.

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Imagining and Creating a Better World in YA Fantasy 

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Imagining and Creating a Better World in YA Fantasy 

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This session features YA authors of stories set in alternate, magical versions of the US. These fantastical stories may be set in another world, but many of the issues and challenges their teen protagonists face are familiar.

Rachel Griffin – The Nature of Witchers; Wild is the Witch

Setting: Pacific Northwest

Struggles: The setting adds a lot of conflict, the two of them are alone in the forest and they must trust each other in order to survive.

Vincent Tirado – Burn Down, Rise Up; We Don’t Swim Here

Setting: In the Bronx

Struggles: She is transported into a hostile environment and has to figure out how to navigate her way through.

Lily Meade – The Shadow Sister

Setting: Pacific Northwest

Struggles: Sister conflict, one sister goes missing and when she returns those conflicts only intensify

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Navigating Trauma in the English Classroom 

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Navigating Trauma in the English Classroom 

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Types of Trauma

Impact

Big events like the pandemic

Relational

Family traumas

Traumas of Everyday Life

Big T vs Little T

Big T

Traumas that we know are trauma

Little T

Litter things that we may not notice, but are just as impactful.

Ambivalence

Ambivalence is a hallmark to psychological trauma. The individual wants to know/ wants not to know.

“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”       – bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Quick Write: How did you get here?

Sorry I didn't take a lot of notes on this one because my laptop died :(

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Essay Planning & Differentiation of Paragraphs slides

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Essay Planning & Differentiation of Paragraphs slides

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Nic Stone-- Keynote Speaker on Antiracism WOW!!

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Nic Stone-- Keynote Speaker on Antiracism WOW!!

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World

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Ibi Zoboi “Star Child” (Non-fiction)

We have so much more language now to help us communicate our struggles and how we are feeling

Book Recommendations:

“We Are All So Good At Smiling” Amber Mcbride

“Too Bright To See” Kyle Lukoff

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I loved this session and feel like we can unpack it at a department meeting. Please check out the videos, interviews, and any slides or pdfs. They are all fantastic.

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Let's take school photos with Project LIT or Banned Books next year :D

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Major Take-Aways

Ideas:

-model don’t make new ways for students

-decentralize the classroom

-more student voice and choice

-integrate multilingual learning into the lesson plans

-give students tons of positive feedback on their writing, more positive than negative

-no peer-editing, yes peer-response!

-Teacher Collaboration looks like sharing your creative spirit, find people who want to do that

-reading and writing should be about creation/be generative instead of task oriented

-use students background about technology/social media/TV more (data: 39% of their time is used on screen, 3% on creation)

-make writing decisions in front of students to model brainstorming

-have students respond to text by naming that they feel it in their head, heart, or gut (somatic experience)

-we are instructors of writing, not copy-editors

-#disrupttexts movement

-distinguish students as readers and writers instead of students who read and write

-On modeling: 1) give professional example, 2) student example, and 3) teacher example as models

Changes to my curriculum this year:

-Book trailers for independent reading (voice over is only quotes on main themes, <1 minute)

-What the Fact book for Debate Unit with 10th

-The Hate U Give, strategically track quotes as we read to use in Socratic Seminar

-in Socratic Seminars, have students practice inviting each other to speak “artfully” instead of forcefully

Books:

-The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

-Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

-Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

-Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

-Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

-Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

-A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

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Jeff Zentner- author visit coming soon (Thanks, Jill!)

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Jeff Zentner- author visit coming soon (Thanks, Jill!)

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Traditional grading/ differentiated assessment 

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Traditional grading/ differentiated assessment 

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Traditional Grading vs. Differentiate Assessment

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World 

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World 

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Melanie Conklin

“Every Missing Piece” (Fiction)

Addresses anxiety

Main characters that struggle with mental health without that being the main plot of the book.

We are used to our main characters being “strong”

6 major emotions

Happiness

Sadness

Anger

Fear

Surprise

Disgust

It is normal to acknowledge your emotions and process them

“Sadness is on us”

It is something that we wear, not something that is a part of us

Book Recommendations:

“Anger Is a Gift” by Mark Oshiro

“Underwater”

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World 

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Mental Health Topics as a Guiding Light in a ‘Post-Pandemic’ World 

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Lily Meade “The Shadow Sister” (Fiction)

How do we address problems that are not “solvable” and how we must learn to live with them?

Struggles with the fear of being imperfect.

We often prioritize the struggles of others rather than our own traumas and struggles.

Book Recommendations:

“Ever Since” Alena Bruzas

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This thick doc is full of useful resources that help students with digital literacy.

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This thick doc is full of useful resources that help students with digital literacy.

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Poetry Activity: One Last Word with Poet Nikki Grimes

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Poetry Activity: One Last Word with Poet Nikki Grimes

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Poetry Activity: One Last Word with Nikki Grimes

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Tumbling into Poetry: Using Blocks to Unblock (Jennifer Guyor Jowett) 

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Tumbling into Poetry: Using Blocks to Unblock (Jennifer Guyor Jowett) 

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Metaphor Dice: Roll the dice, gives you the pieces of your sentence.

Red: Concept

White: Adjective

Blue: Object

Transform a class into immediate poets through connections and collaborations by digging deep into the critical thinking box and taking away the pressure of getting started. Using the game of chance and Metaphor Dice created by Taylor Mali, writers roll, discover, and craft poems with twists by adding kennings, antonymic translations, and line lifts.

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Tumbling into Poetry: Using Blocks to Unblock (Jennifer Guyor Jowett)
Transform a class into immediate poets through connections and collaborations by digging deep into the critical thinking box and taking away the pressure of getting started. Using the game of chance and Metaphor Dice created by Taylor Mali, writers roll, discover, and craft poems with twists by adding kennings, antonymic translations, and line lifts.

1. Roll the dice (red is a subject, white an adjective, blue an object). 1. Change up the verb - make 4. Line Lifts: listen the line justifications (which is to say phrases) of several writers after a roll of the dice. Did you hear any lines that inspired you to lift from someone else? Now's the time.
2. Artfully restate by adding Taylor's Mali's phrase "which is to say" OR begin with his phrase idea "I used to believe"

Which is to say the words singe my mind

I used to believe poetry was a burning memory
found only in the deepest night 3. You might roll again for a completely different metaphor and then bridge the two together.

Options
to be into an action (dreams, memorizes, sings). 2. Kennings are the metaphors of Norsemen, Jedis, and poets. In Beowulf, they are two word metaphors joined by hyphens (whale-road for sea) or phrases (storm of swords for war). Use the metaphor dice to create kennings by placing a subject (red) and an object (blue) together.
Poetry sings of a cryptic thunderstorm or Poetry sings like a midnight raven

Poetry is a midnight raven becomes The poetry raven is... My father is a thunderstorm becomes The thunderstorm father...
3. Take a turn through antonymic translation (use antonyms for various words within the poem to change the meaning).
Poetry is a midnight raven becomes Poetry is a morning songbird Poetry is a burning memory/found only in the deepest night becomes
Poetry is an icy fact/found often in the shallowest light

*More on writing Antonymic translations can be found here:
https://www.ethicalela.com/antonymic-translation/
*More on Kennings poetry can be found here: https://www.ethicalela.com/kennings-atmosopheric-atoms/

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Tumbling into Poetry: Using Blocks to Unblock (Jennifer Guyor Jowett) Transform a class into immediate poets through connections and collaborations by digging deep into the critical thinking box and taking away the pressure of getting started. Using the game of chance and Metaphor Dice created by Taylor Mali, writers roll, discover, and craft poems with twists by adding kennings, antonymic translations, and line lifts.

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Inspiration: Draw inspiration from shared class reading passages or, better yet, invite your students to select a passage from their self-selected independent reading. One or two pages will do – almost any page will do.

Process: Tell the students that there is poetry in the narration and dialogue waiting for the reader to pull words from the page to ponder, waiting for the reader to stretch into their own poetry. Read the page (or two), stopping when a phrase strikes them as especially craftful or vivid or moving. Pull that phrase from the page to start a poem or pull several phrases from the pages to rearrange into a found poem. Or, use the focus of the passage to inspire your own writing. For example, in “Songs” from Born Behind Bars,

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(Activity) Poems Honoring Victims of School Shootings: 

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(Activity) Poems Honoring Victims of School Shootings: 

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The creater of this activity invites you—educators and students—to make poetry honoring the victims of school shootings. Make poetry that articulates arguments and reasons for change. Make poetry that gives voice to the voiceless. Make poetry that eulogizes victims. Make poetry that comforts and heals and shouts and silences. Make poetry centered on the general theme of school shootings and all that entails.

Then submit your poems for possible inclusion in an anthology of poems focused on this exceptional American crisis.

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21 Lives Lost Invitation to Submit Poems

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Through poetry student voices become powerful tools.

A tool for argument

Criteria for a logical argument

Assertion

Explore and expand

Proposed resolution

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What the Metaphor Said to the Simile: Writing Poetry in Response to Crisis