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Genre & Common Core

Genre & Common Core. Steve Lynch. Biography. 1 year at High School of Enterprise, Business, and Technology in East Williamsburg (9 th and 10 th Grades) 2 years at New York Harbor School on Governors Island (9 th -12 th Grades)

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Genre & Common Core

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  1. Genre &Common Core Steve Lynch

  2. Biography • 1 year at High School of Enterprise, Business, and Technology in East Williamsburg (9th and 10th Grades) • 2 years at New York Harbor School on Governors Island (9th-12th Grades) • 2 years at Robert F. Wagner Jr. SSAT in Long Island City (7th-9th Grades)

  3. There is thunder soundcloud.com/thereisthunder @thereisthunder thereisthunder@gmail.com

  4. Workshop Topics • Different genre projects and set-up documents • Process of developing a year-long thematic course that connects to the Common Core • Using Common Core Standards in daily teaching

  5. Genre Projects • Front Pages of Newspaper • Public Service Announcements (Audio only) • Six Word Memoirs • Photo Poems • Multi-Genre Projects • Book Jackets of Autobiography • Children’s Fable • Book Commercial • Techno-Action Narrative

  6. Genre #1: Six Word Memoirs Benefits Considerations Standards of excellence Making the project rigorous Letting students do terrible work • Builds classroom culture early • Very student-centered • Gets students into class and work easily

  7. Genre #2: Photo poems • Accomplished with free Peace Corps Fellows photographer • Collaboration between Skye Von Der Osten’s photographic sensibilities and my need for students to build sense of self and independence • Showed at the Figment Art Festival on Governors Art Festival in Spring 2010

  8. Genre #2: Photo poems Benefits Considerations Students didn’t have access to ALL photos Rigor More publishing • Student sense of pride • Freedom of expression • Public viewing and ownership

  9. Genre #3: book commercials BEnefits Considerations Equitable grading systems Allow conferencing opportunities for students who want it • Very student-centered • Focus on excellence was easy for students to envision • Forced students to work and explore independently

  10. Genre #3: Book Commercials • Students engaged in Independent Reading for one full class period per week • Students expected to read one full book by November 15th • Students used Animoto to create a 1 minute book commercial focused on the single task of convincing your classmates to want to read the book

  11. Genre projects in the classroom benefits considerations Know what standards and skills you are measuring ahead of time If you have more student choice, allow for more conferencing If you have more structure, discuss and create useful supports more often • Narrow and realistic focus to the work • Can be easy to have exemplar “texts” • Feels more purposeful for students • Product centered

  12. Common coreor How I Fell In Love

  13. Common Core curriculum Development

  14. Planning scenario • 8th Grade Curriculum • Thematic concern is Human Rights • You and your partner will sketch out: • 2 thematic questions • 1 assessment to show understanding of one question • 4-5 skills/standards that students will need to complete the assessment effectively

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