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Volume 28, Issue 4, 2011
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Classroom Notes Plus: A Quarterly of Teaching Ideas: April 2011
This issue of Classroom Notes Plus includes lessons on descriptive writing, interpreting graphic texts, understanding character by examining ways of knowing and believing, and exploring what it means to be a writer.
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Lessons in Graphica
Author(s): Meghan Dykema, Kim Ballard, Patrick Love and Daniel KenzieThese three graphica-based lessons will help students navigate and interpret graphic texts more meaningfully.
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Knowledge and Characters
Author(s): Sig KriebelStudents will apply a deeper understanding to fictional characters after participating in this lesson, which has them reflect on their own preferred ways for knowing and believing.
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Writers among Us: Creating a Writer’s Autobiography
Author(s): Stacey BrownThrough reading, writing, and discussion, this activity engages students in exploring what it is to be a writer.
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Dancing with Description
Author(s): Tiffaney SharpIn this playful activity, students use discarded texts as the basis for descriptive writing practice.
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Thirty Before 30
Author(s): Robert WilderThis classroom strategy stretches students’ imaginations by asking them to write about thirty things they would like to have accomplished by age 30.
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