pedagogy project.docx

the house on mango

A Portrait of Hope: Exploring Culture and Coming of Age with an Eighth Grade Classroom

This lesson plan is designed around the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The unit plan is designed for a smaller student population of a private middle school with roughly 300 students. This plan incorporates a design whi… Continue

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Poetry Project.zipIntroduction to Poetry Project

Poetry is a type of writing that is often misunderstood by secondary level students. While few show a great passion to write and to learn about poetry, personal experience has shown me that many students view poetry as time consuming and silly. For that reason alone, I chose to do a poetry proj… Continue

Introduction

“Game Over: A Discussion of Morality through Science Fiction” is the second half of a four-week unit on the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. It is intended for teaching in a Tenth grade English class. While creating these lessons, I pictured a classroom similar to the one I once sat in myself: about twenty-five students, with a school population of not over 400. The school in which I grew up was located in one of those small towns where everyone knows your name and har… Continue