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Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Activity provided by Coralie Beghuin

This unit consists of students learning about mental health through a text of their choice (among 6 choices). Students are placed in a literature circle group in which they are to read and discuss their chosen book. Each text has some aspect of mental health (death, grief, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc.). Other than… Read More »Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Listening, Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF, Slides
19 file(s) 2.28 MB
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Putting Words to Pictures

Activity provided by Vicki Fraser

Elementary students explore, enjoy and work with wordless picture books! It encourages them to create a well-written story incorporating figurative language and reminds them of the important relation between pictures and the carefully chosen words that accompany them.

Levels: Elementary, Elementary, Cycle 2, Elementary, Cycle 3
Topics: Talk, Reading
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Types: PDF, Slides
8 file(s) 5.55 MB
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Reading Graphic Novels Through Critical Lenses to Recognize Power Imbalances and Discrimination

Activity provided by Alison Holloway

The overarching concept that guides this unit is “who is on the inside, and who is on the outside?” Students will explore stereotypes, media portrayals, biases, privilege, intersectionality, and race/gender/ability as a social construction. Two essential questions that inform this unit are: 1) What is discrimination? and 2) How does discrimination persist in contemporary society?

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 2
Topics: Media, Talk, Reading
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3 file(s) 15.19 MB
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Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry

Activity provided by Anne Beamish

This unit can serve as an introduction to the world of spoken word poetry. The activities included serve as both the immersion into text that precedes and informs the writing process, as well as the first steps into the writing process. Please see the document Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry by Anne Beamish for full unit… Read More »Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2, Secondary
Topics: Talk, Reading, Writing/Production
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6 file(s) 7.73 MB
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Silver Birch Award Reading Program

Activity provided by Jennifer Clark

The school bought a Silver Birch membership so that students could participate and select an award winner over the course of the project. Unit activities included making a book trailer, reading and writing book reviews, author visits, and voting for a favourite book among those read during the program.

Levels: Elementary, Elementary, Cycle 2, Elementary, Cycle 3
Topics: Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF, Video, Slides
13 file(s) 31.00 MB
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From the 1920s to the 2020s: The Lasting Impact of the Harlem Renaissance

Activity provided by Voula Tsagaroulis

This unit aims to link literature from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary literature around the theme of racial consciousness.  The unit features a short story by Langston Hughes, which sets the stage for a poetry study that ultimately empowers students to produce multiple poems inspired by what they have studied.

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary
Topics: Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: Video, Slides
6 file(s) 279.93 KB
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