Posted by Linda E. on
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-3-Share-a-resource-tp360p494.html

Not being able to access the AEA resources makes this assignment a bit difficult. Perhaps in the future you might consider adding a temporary username and pass code for 24-hour use for those of us who are hoping to sub or teach again sometime soon. Meanwhile I'll improvise--something I remember doing quite often in the classroom depending on where the lesson plan took us for that day...

I was quite taken with TeachingBooks.net. Whether I was teaching journalism or English, reading and writing were essential skills. From literature to composition as a topic area, I always found that students were almost more interested in the author than they were in the work--that people factor, I guess. TeachingBooks.net provides a great way to introduce students to the author--even down to pronouncing the author's name correctly. If I taught in a school where every student had a computer, I'd be flipping Khan Academy-style by having the homework be researching the author on TeachingBooks.net--and any other AEA sites they might find informative--and arriving in class ready to discuss that author's style, tone and success in telling a story. I'd have students try writing a blog post in that writer's style and from that writer's point of view. We'd do a peer-to-peer review of the posts and talk about the different takes each student had on the writer's style and how difficult it is to write in any style but one's own. Then I'd have students rewrite the post purely in their own voice. I'd read the posts, and together we'd try to guess who wrote each post, then get the student author's perspective on what they wrote. Just a start on what's possible using the AEA resources...