Fall Fare 2013: In case you missed it!
Georgia Heard
Plenary session - Weave Poetry throughout Your Entire Year: Teach Young People to Care About the Sounds of Language, The Power of Imagery ... And To Know the Joy of Falling Headlong In Love With Words.
Georgia inspired us with a variety of ways to bring poetry into the classroom at all levels, including how to weave poetry throughout the school day and year through poetry Fridays and reading a poem every day. She demonstrated how reading and writing poetry throughout the year can support students’ language and literacy development. In her Workshop session - Looking Again: Revision and Developing the Eyes to See the Qualities of Good Writing, she shared specific revision strategies (Words, Structure, and Voice) that will enable students to re-see and reshape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization.
Revision Handout
Plenary session - Weave Poetry throughout Your Entire Year: Teach Young People to Care About the Sounds of Language, The Power of Imagery ... And To Know the Joy of Falling Headlong In Love With Words.
Georgia inspired us with a variety of ways to bring poetry into the classroom at all levels, including how to weave poetry throughout the school day and year through poetry Fridays and reading a poem every day. She demonstrated how reading and writing poetry throughout the year can support students’ language and literacy development. In her Workshop session - Looking Again: Revision and Developing the Eyes to See the Qualities of Good Writing, she shared specific revision strategies (Words, Structure, and Voice) that will enable students to re-see and reshape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization.
Revision Handout
Jason “Blackbird” Selman: The Spoken Word, an Introductory Workshop
In this workshop, Jason explored the origins of Spoken Word and the various, related performance poetry traditions that inform it. If you are familiar with Slam today, check out his materials and see how it incorporates so many oral traditions. He answered “What is Spoken Word anyway?” and explored how it can can be a powerful, engaging and enlightening classroom tool.
Power Point presentation
Handout
In this workshop, Jason explored the origins of Spoken Word and the various, related performance poetry traditions that inform it. If you are familiar with Slam today, check out his materials and see how it incorporates so many oral traditions. He answered “What is Spoken Word anyway?” and explored how it can can be a powerful, engaging and enlightening classroom tool.
Power Point presentation
Handout
Miriam Verburg – Interactive Fiction in the Classroom
Miriam outlined how game design and interactive fiction can be used to help students develop their understanding of plot structure and character development, as well as how games can be used as a basis for creative writing and how students can plot out or script their own game worlds and stories. We learned the basic conventions of game narrative design and some web resources to help us implement this in our classroom. About Twine.
Power Point presentation
Handout
Miriam outlined how game design and interactive fiction can be used to help students develop their understanding of plot structure and character development, as well as how games can be used as a basis for creative writing and how students can plot out or script their own game worlds and stories. We learned the basic conventions of game narrative design and some web resources to help us implement this in our classroom. About Twine.
Power Point presentation
Handout
Cybele Young – Telling Stories with Pictures
This inspirational workshop focused on the creative process. Cybele shared images of her own artistic process and how this process has evolved to include the creation of children’s books where the visual informs the narrative. She shared examples of original artwork, some tools of the trade, and where she finds some of her inspiration.
This inspirational workshop focused on the creative process. Cybele shared images of her own artistic process and how this process has evolved to include the creation of children’s books where the visual informs the narrative. She shared examples of original artwork, some tools of the trade, and where she finds some of her inspiration.
Gwen Babcock for Jennette MacKenzie - Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me How to Write Non-Fiction
This session looked at the importance of learning the structures and features of non-fiction texts such as description, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast or generalization. Gwen shared practical strategies to explicitly teach students about the purpose and the characteristics for each type of non-fiction writing.
Handout Part 1 Handout Part 2 Handout Part 3 Handout Part 4
This session looked at the importance of learning the structures and features of non-fiction texts such as description, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast or generalization. Gwen shared practical strategies to explicitly teach students about the purpose and the characteristics for each type of non-fiction writing.
Handout Part 1 Handout Part 2 Handout Part 3 Handout Part 4